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2015
1st Amendment
Mayor Hubris
Mayor Subprime Mike Huether
Mike Huether
SF City Council
Sioux Falls
South Dakotans
Residents of Hartford, SD want to recall mayor for limiting public input
I have been watching this issue over the past week, and to say it has peeked my interest would be an understatement;
More than 300 residents agreed with Randall, believing that Mayor Campbell is not a good fit for the city of almost 2,700 people. But Randall says this hasn’t been the first time Mayor Campbell has behaved like he did last Tues.
“Numerous times folks have gotten up to approach the podium to ask for permission to speak and before they got to the podium the Mayor’s motioned them and say you’ll need to sit down, we’re not going to hear from you right now.â€
Not sure if many of you remember, but I was involved with the successful recall of a mayor in Yankton a few years ago (doing editorial cartoons about the issue).
What is shocking is that the small town of Hartford is flexing it’s 1st Amendment rights and recalling a mayor based on free speech. I revel in their activism. We have a mayor in Sioux Falls who not only has tried to limit public input, he has jailed people before they could even show up to testify. He also keeps as many contracts and settlements as secret as possible, even hiding the documents from the city’s legislative body, the city council. If Hartford is successful recalling a mayor based solely on his acknowledgement of the 1st Amendment and Constitutional rights of citizens, it seems Sioux Falls has a strong case to send our current mayor packing. Who is with me?
Other Tidbits from the Neighborhood Summit
Champion Awards
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz0dwsq04OM[/youtube]
Neighborhood Success Stories
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fclf5B43I5g[/youtube]
Neighborhood Safety
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpNjd5xvIoY[/youtube]
Sioux Falls City Council Agenda, November 17, 2015
Another fun filled Tuesday evening at Carnegie. It all starts with the Land Use Committee meeting. The Agenda is posted online, but of course there are no linked documents to the presentations, so I am just as baffled as you.
A. Social Media and Bed & Breakfast establishments (Like I said above, I am truly baffled, sounds like the making of another unneeded regulation).
B. Multi-Family Housing Land Uses (This one is a head scratcher to).
At the informational meeting we get the monthly finance report, an update as to what the multi-cultural actually does with our tax dollars and CYS (whatever that is).
The Regular Council meeting is full of odds and ends.
Item #21, forcing businesses in the Northern Netherlands to build sidewalks on streets that no one walks on.
Item #33-35, Hey, it’s not a water rate increase, it’s a surcharge! I wish someone, anyone, on the council would call out this bullshit. They are charging city water customers an extra ‘fee’ to take out a loan to build our water/sewer system. Sounds logical, right? Except for the fact that there is F’ing GOBBS of money in the CIP for these projects, and we don’t need to take out loans based on surcharges.
Dumb.
Item #36, The Bumpback. I am still on the fence about this, not sure what to think. I will pop the popcorn on this debate. Both sides have great arguments.
Item #43, Food truck regulation silliness, 1st reading.
Item #44, So we don’t have a price tag on a new city administration building (even though the question has been asked a million times) but we find it necessary to hire an architect and construction manager first? When is the council going to call out this BS? They have had plenty of opportunities, but continue to vote for this project.
1st Amendment
Mayor Hubris
Mayor Subprime Mike Huether
Mike Huether
Property Taxes
SF City Council
Sioux Falls
US Constitution
Mayor’s Neighborhood Brickwalls Summit, 11/14/2015
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybApPfRnObo[/youtube]
Our intrepid mayor of Sioux Falls seems to think the US Constitution, Charter and written laws are brick walls to overcome. Listen to him discuss his quest to make over the city into his image at the Neighborhood Summit on November 14, 2015. His “to hell with the laws, Council and citizens” must be overcome if we are to have a clean and safe city for all.
The brick walls he is upset with are based on rights guaranteed by our U.S. Constitution, South Dakota Constitution and the Sioux Falls Home Rule Charter. Why does no one challenge hizzoner when he defends his administration’s lawbreaking actions?
In this Summit part 1 Mayor Mike let’s us in on his lawless vision of government by and for the specials at the expense of the rest of us.
Since the city of Sioux Falls heavily edits or blocks meetings videos we now offering a direct link to our collected city videos through www.siouxfall.org.
So we ask “Neighbors are only good if they conform to his vision?”