UPDATE: Me wonders if the mayor bailed on this to remove his name from the project if it comes to fruition after he leaves office? Why is that important? Because there are rumors he may have conflicts with some people brokering the deal. If the Development Foundation and Chamber are able to sucker voters into this, since Paul will be out of office he can only hope the conflict flies under the radar. I know that is a stretch, because most insiders at city hall tell me he ‘just gave up’ after the extra penny tax got voted down, but I still know how this guy operates. He has made lots of $$$ being mayor, and I ain’t talking about his salary.
You can’t make this stuff up, seriously, I laughed so hard when I read this;
“I made a commitment to myself and to the community when I took office that I will not hand the next administration a half-baked anything that’s gonna put them in turd alley … I had an initiative that was left to me as a challenge, and I don’t want to do that to another mayor,” TenHaken said.
Well, Paul, we have been eating your turd sandwiches for 7 years, and to be honest with you, it ain’t working with my Keto.
Read the article, there is so much defeatism you kinda feel bad for the angry bird running our city. Poops was never going to get a convention center across the finish line because he hasn’t put anything across the finish line, nothing. He got handed an admin building with bad plumbing, and instead of making the contractor pay, he rolled over like a dog, same thing with the Midco, contractor screwed up, we paid. Bunker ramp, could have pulled out of the deal with a small fine, but rolled with it anyway and blamed Huether (reminds you of the guy in DC right now, all my bad decisions are the last guy’s fault.) Just admit it already Paul, you weren’t cut out to be mayor. No one will fault you for that, you just are not cut from a cloth that would understand. You ran a successful web design business overcharging your clients for websites that were produced using software (that anyone can buy) to design. I had someone tell me they charged him $5,000 for a simple website he could have created on his own for $199 in web development software. Paul, you are a fraud, and no surprise you are bailing on this. You bail on everything. Why not buy back your company and do what you are good at, screwing peeps over for overpriced websites a 7 year old could create.
But I have to admit, I was happy he dropped this idea, like he did with public art, mentorship, Lenin’s tomb at the zoo, covid, transparency, equal rights, 1st Amendment rights, and the list goes on. The only thing this guy has finished is a Mountain Dew. And that is all we need to know.
“‘Mountain Dew’?…. But I thought it was Diet Coke he kept in his mini frig at work”……
So, you are saying that Lamont, Beck press conference was a turd, huh? But it does rank up there as one of my favorite press conferences or interviews of all time, along with the Weiland and State Nelson one back in ’14, the time Daugaard claimed China was “just a little more socialistic than us” during an Inside Keloland interview back in ’13, which involved selling South Dakota pizzas to China, Perot’s ’92 withdrawal presser where Perot claimed the CIA infiltrated his daughter’s wedding, and then this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1kdVaxHy4M
He’ll be known for the Bunker Ramp, COVID, no masks, riots, flooding, three tornadoes in one night, the trafficking of dead animals, bike trail selfies, and Jumping Jacks. AND, unlike Reagan’s failures, he built a wall and didn’t help to bring one down.
( and Woodstock adds: “Walls, walls, walls and ‘poker faces,’ …… but I’ll tell you who really knows about walls….
“….. ) ……:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TtvG18iSxY
“Wow, the more I think all about this, it sounds like a classic ‘French Exit’ for the Mayor politically”….. ( …. “Although, I’m still not really sure what a ‘French Exit’ is (Surmised during a County Agent moment) “….. )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9vNgw93VA4
Now, now, he did get the State Theatre finally done, however, with its new restomod marquee which looks like someone just slapped a bumper sticker on a new car and some cushy big brown leather chairs which “definitely” bring you back to the days of vaudeville or a later mid-century feel. #WearATie2Get$FromDenny #73%!
since poops won’t get his name on a plaque at a convention center, will he get a plaque at the dudley wall?
Speaking of plaques, whatever happened to Huether’s at the City Centre?
I find it interesting that this news is carried in the quietest and most obscure media outlet in town.
Not a peep from other media outlets.
The Chamber Cheerleader at siouxfalls.business doesn’t write stories like this which distract from the “rah, rah” of the economic development grifters in this town. She will get around to including this as a requiem of sorts in the final days of Progressive Paulie’s term in officce.
Archie B.,
I’ll never forget Progressive Paulie’s gleeful video selfie romp through downtown after the City Council pissed away a million and a half dollars from the tax coffers to a private restoration project.
Only a big-spending, tax-and-spend progressive would be that gleeful about squandering taxpayer money to a project run by (formerly?) establishment Dems in town. It was at that moment that I refused to acknowledge Mayor MisTaken as a Republican.
Oh, and he also brought Chick-fil-A, and its traffic jams, to Sioux Falls, too, just one day before COVID. I think the five-year anniversary date was yesterday. #16MurdersInOneYear
AND, as far as the State Theatre, well, they don’t call it the “State” Theatre for nothing.