Sioux Falls City Council Candidate Greg Neitzert on SE Podcast
l3wis 
March 2016
I told you so?
I’m still spitting nails
This is the first of several stories we will be reading about how the Governor’s moronic, ignorant and mostly selfish plan to increase teacher pay falls short;
The legislation promised to give teachers significant raises and give South Dakota schools the ability to compete. But now that districts are doing the math, the Governor’s plan isn’t adding up.
I knew from the beginning, from the dirty track record of Rounds and Daugaard when it came to education funding, that his half-penny increase was a ploy to test the waters of a sales tax increase. Don’t we remember the same promises about Video Lottery?
While the half-penny increase will affect all of our wallets, you will soon see the funding to teachers diluted and the money basically going to property tax relief for the largest property owners in the state.
I warned of the precedent.
It’s easy to point our fingers at the Republicans for acting like a flock of sheep (well, not all of them), but it is the Democrats whose chickenshit votes to push this over a 2/3rds majority that really screwed the chicken on this one, when they all knew that there is millions in the education trust fund that could fill the gap of teacher pay WITHOUT RAISING TAXES!
What a mess, and the worst part about it is we will all be paying more for a broken plan that hasn’t even been implemented yet.
The last nail in the coffin confirmed
I was told last night that the city council had the votes to kill the proposed city administration building. Joe Snevashamrockness confirms it tonight;
Councilors Karsky, Rex Rolfing, Christine Erickson, Kermit Staggers and Greg Jamison said in interviews this week they won’t support the project — at least not until the city has a chance to look into partnering with county government on a shared building. They plan to postpone or reject a bonding proposal next month.
(I have personally heard that Erpenbach is also opposed, while Kiley and Anderson are still on board).
As council candidate, Greg Neitzert recently said at a candidate forum when it comes to reigning in the mayor, “sometimes you have to say NO!”
Looks like they are learning, too bad it took a few of them to the end of their terms to learn the word.
Is this press conference about a Hotel or Naysayer’s
Completely confused about the 29 minute naysayer rant. Who were the hotel naysayers? Mike, it’s time to pull up your big kid pants and get over it. You built a POS events center with dented (leaky) siding, and kept the mistake a secret. You stole from the levee repayment fund to build an aquatics center that doesn’t have a hazardous chemical storage plan, and today we find out, the city council finally awakens from their deep sleep and is going to turn down your admin building plan.
Yeah, Yeah, But . . ., Yeah, Yeah, But . . . you did it all with a bevy of lies and secrets, and us naysayers are finally catching up to your tricks.
