As I was watching the Forum Thursday night, something seemed odd, why was this guy I have never seen before who works for a local ad agency and somehow is associated with the Chamber moderating this event?
Than they introduced him, Ryan Budmayr. So who is Mr. Budmayr? Not only was he TenHaken’s campaign manager, he has ran many of the Mayor’s rubberstamper campaigns, including, currently, Richard Thomason’s and is the Mayor’s Facebook page moderator.
So how does the mayor’s minion get installed as the moderator and were the questions pre-sent to the chosen four?
You guys (voters) still haven’t figured out how this works? Have you?
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Leave it to the searching for money 24 / 7 / 365 authoritarian mayor to get his campaign manager to run everything. ElevenHaken will stop at nothing to install choices who will not counter his moves for total control. Ryan’s participation is such a conflict of interest. He chooses the questions, the topics and likely the placement of candidates at the dais. The Chamber execs have donated to Ryan’s candidates and who knows what else. They have to do everything, ethical or not, to prevent the public from finding out the schemes to strip tax money and put it into their accounts.
SouthDaCola has published local voting activity showing how little the mayor and his groupies have cared to vote and now they think they can tell us what to do.
When is the City Council going to have a loyalty oath like the local Democratic Party? #GetWithItCouncil!
Wow how crooked I wish I knew that beforehand I would have Said something
I’m currently watching a 60 Minutes program on Putin silencing any non-propaganda media and I suddenly understand why Diamond Tooth Kristi, TenHaken, and all the MAGA crowd love Putin so much.
The only “oath” by State and Local Representatives is to SUPPORT the United States Constitution, the State Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Upholding Our Sovereignty of a Free Group of People Called the Republic of South Dakota. We need elected persons that keep us on the straight and narrow, not falling for all the race baiting, gender identity politics, nor globalism. We must install the Protestant Faith back in Our Public Affairs. All Government has to do is manage our Public Buildings, Roads, Public Parks, Infrastructure letting the “Free People” do what they do best, create jobs, create revenues, profits, and private homes. When all that goes as planned, it really does NOT matter who you are as a person – white or black, does not matter who you love, or who you marry, nor what your religion is, etc. Government is not there to hand out benefits, it is there to give to the people the tools necessary to do their jobs, live their lives freely.
#DiamondToothKristi ….. Finally, a governor with some teeth, we haven’t seen that since Janklow. Also, do you all remember when Wild Bill had to have his jaw wired shut for a while?….. That was a peaceful time.
( and Woodstock adds: “Say, how does one conduct ‘state business’ if their mouth is wired shut?”…… )
City government is authoritarian. The mayor is dictator. It’s his rules. Roberts rules and democracy got poisoned by the unconstitutional Charter. At least he’s limited to 2 terms. Putin has been five and was reelected with 87 percent of the vote.
People close to the mayor only last 2-3 yrs, other than Erica but she gets $$$
OMG, “We must install the Protestant Faith back in Our Public Affairs. “???
When did the USA install a religion to then have it disappear?