South DaCola

Editorial Cartoonist from South Dakota

2018

Rex Rolfing State Legislature

NOW Rex Rolfing wants to hear from you, that is if you have a check

l3wis 9Comments

So he sends out a contribution letter and doesn’t even put his phone number on it? He has learned absolutely nothing his 8 years on the city council. There was nothing ‘grassroots’ about Rolfing’s election to the council. I was surprised he knew what the word ‘lean’ even means. With the mayor’s help and the rubberstamp council Rolfing never backed down from spending your money. Racking up over $200 million in bond debt (He never voted against any controversial projects like the DT Parking Ramp and Administration building) and going along with the over 50 increases in taxes and fees. If you liked Rolfing on the council, you’ll love him in Pierre.

Mayor TenHaken Sioux Falls T.J. Nelson

Mayor TenHaken’s Deputy COS not a fan of liberals

l3wis 28Comments

What has PTH said in the past about your employees posting questionable things on FB?

This is why political appointees are not a good idea. It’s probably a good idea to separate your campaign and transition team from your leadership team. I saw this with Darrin Smith when he was appointed to Director of Community Development and Parking after he cooked up a false ‘junket’ story about Dr. Staggers during the mayoral campaign. I also feel this is where Jolene failed by using a Democratic political operative to run her campaign instead of an independent consultant.

As for the comments about liberals, I would agree, he knows little about them. BHO was not a liberal, I would actually consider him a moderate to right leaning progressive, but definately not a liberal. I tell people one of the several reasons I left the Democratic party is because there are no liberals in it anymore, haven’t been for decades. But being a ‘liberal’ isn’t some dirty thing. We believe in helping each other, the social net, universal healthcare and education, embracing the arts, culture and diversity and we also believe in the right to free speech and peaceful protest. True liberals also detest war and try to solve problems diplomatically, we also accept all creeds, a major reason why we promote peace over war.

Good luck T.J., posting this will make it a very rough road for you and your boss.

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SF City Council Sioux Falls

UPDATE: Seems someone on the council is nosing around about public input

l3wis 5Comments

The Sioux Falls city council will get a presentation from a city attorney about House Bill 1172 (no supporting documents exist yet) on Tuesday at the 4 PM informational meeting.

According to this BILL it has to do with public input. I found this paragraph in the bill;

The chair of the public body shall reserve at every official meeting by the public body a period for public comment, limited at the chair’s discretion, but not so limited as to provide for no public comment.

In other words, as I read this, if the city council wants to change local ordinance about public input, they have some hurdles with State Law. It seems to me that they may be able to change the time limit or move the public input to the back of the meeting, but they CANNOT get rid of it. I say leave it as is and if someone is being disruptive, gavel them and have them move on their merry way.

UPDATE: It looks as though this may be beneficial to public input by allowing it at ALL public meetings (like the informational). We will find out more on Tuesday. The the State Law goes into place July 1st.

There will be also presentations on alcohol ordinances and public safety studies.

NO regular meeting will be held on Tuesday.

Code Enforcement Sioux Falls

Don’t think our sign regs in Sioux Falls are ridiculous?

l3wis 5Comments

Last year I found out that you cannot hang a sign on a business unless you are a certified sign installer with the city (There is a yearly licensing fee) And this isn’t just signs that require electrical hookup, this is any permanent sign. A downtown business owner told me that after having one of his employees make a custom wood sign for his business (no electrical or lighting) he was NOT allowed to hang it himself, he had to pay a certified sign installer to bolt it to his building. I guess drilling a couple of holes and holding a level requires a special license.

(Image: Siouxfalls.business)

Now the city is considering a pipe in a statue’s hand as a ‘sign’

Initially, city officials told him that according to zoning rules there wasn’t sufficient square footage on the property for the addition of the fiberglass statue. He hired a lawyer to work through that issue, but he couldn’t get the city to budge on another one: Mr. Bendo will go up without the pipe in his hand because that makes him a sign and the business already has one.

“I’ve never heard anything so dumb in my life,” Wallenstein said.

That’s because code enforcement under Former Mayor Bowl Cut & Buck Teeth didn’t want to allow people to have anything that looked out of place or to kitsch. That’s why people were getting tickets for 8.5″ grass, including a city councilor.

Some on FB have suggested they dress up Mr. Bendo. One person said they should make him into a Pirate. I have suggested they make a giant dress for him and have him in drag. Or put a bullwhip in his hand and a bondage ball in his mouth. Let’s see what code enforcement says than?

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