Remember when Thune was running against Daschle in which he defeated him. He consistently said that Daschle was ignoring his state after he became Majority Leader. Ironically Thune has been ignoring us his entire time in the Senate, oh, and Marion to.
UPDATE is at bottom of article. Also, as many know by now Luke Lindberg is the son-in-law of John Thune, so no surprise he got the money.
I only agree with Councilor Curtis the Blurtist on occassion, and he is correct when he said at the 1st reading of the grifting agreement;
“This is not our role as a city,” he said at the council’s Jan. 14 meeting, noting that City Hall relies on organizations like Forward Sioux Falls, the Greater Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Sioux Falls Development Foundation to navigate private markets on Sioux Falls businesses’ behalf. “If they’re going to continue funding trade, that’s fine, but … it’s not our lane as the city of Sioux Falls.”
He is correct. These importers and exporters are private capitalistic business owners who generate millions in selling and buying products, they should be funding this organization. And let’s take a look at their tax filings. As you can see this is just pure grift, they didn’t need our money, they should have went to their members if they needed this money. The council’s priorities lately with handouts has been atrocious and needs to end.
UPDATE: Notice in their fiscal year of 2023 they spent very little of their budget on actually helping importers and exporters, most went to salary (LINBERG is going to work for the Trump Administration). There expenses were $407K and they only spent $42,752 on helping their members (10% of total expenses) with half going to travel expenses ($22,477). So I guess it is safe to assume the money we just handed them is going towards salaries and not actually helping trade. I wonder if the council even bothered to research their expenses before giving them their money. Don’t kid yourself.
As a supporter of the arts you would think I would be excited about this, and I am. SculptureWalk has really turned into something wonderful, our mayor’s contributions, not so much;
Additionally, the city recently stood in the national spotlight as Mayor Paul Tenhaken supported a young graffiti artist in the area. The pair was featured on CBS’ Beg-Knows America.
Tenhaken, who coined himself as “an art guy who appreciates art” in the CBS article, commissioned the young graffiti artist to create a mural, a print of which now hangs behind his desk.
I think I am going to hurl. Mayor TenHaken is a militant closed government guy who censored a beautiful mural, his art cred is in the toilet. He also tried to cover up the removal of the Delbridge Collection which we could have restored for $850K (ironically we pay $600K a year to keep the lights on in the Arena).
He is an arts embarrassment to the community. You can’t in one sentence say you love art and in the next sentence censor an indigenous themed mural that was later accepted by the Smithsonian. He wouldn’t know art even if someone hit him over the head with Van Gogh painting.
Besides a violation of separation of church and state they seem to think that our government was based on Judeo Christian beliefs. That is completely false. Besides many of the lawmakers at the time were agnostics or just simply ‘believers’ (deists) but did not follow a certain religion. Also ‘GOD’ is not mentioned in the Constitution;
In the United States, the federal constitution does not make a reference to God as such, although it uses the formula “the year of our Lord” in Article VII.
I was told that was used because we used the Christian calendar, which is way different then Christian Doctrine. Also the Declaration of Independence is pretty scarce on that GOD word;
Nature’s God: The source of power in the first sentence of the Declaration
Creator: God endows humans with unalienable rights
Supreme Judge of the world: God judges the actions of all people and ensures that justice prevails
Divine Providence: The founders entrusted themselves to God, who they believed had protected them and would continue to do so (The last two references were added during congressional debates over the document.)
Notice no mention of Christianity or ANY religion, and they did that on purpose. Just because you believe in a religious doctrine doesn’t mean it is always referring to the Christian God. They used the word GOD in a way that recognizes all faiths and beliefs and is a universal word for our creator. I will tell people while I am NOT religious I did attend Catholic and Lutheran services growing up and I do have faith in God, but not a religious God. So don’t call me an Atheist like Huether did on the mic at Democratic Forum once right to my face.
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I am suggesting to legislative Dems to introduce a bill that would require all classrooms to display a ‘Be Kind’ poster or better yet amend the current bill. Obviously many legislators are too ignorant to understand the separation of church and state (which actually protects Christians more then any other group). Be careful what you ask for. If this passes I look forward to the ACLU lawsuit.
So this happened;
It’s official. Kati and I tied the knot today. Kati cracked everyone up as she explained why our rings had not arrived yet. Special thanks to Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken who officiated for us. He was incredibly gracious and kind as he visited with our families and performed the brief ceremony. More photos to come in the comments below…
Birds of a feather . . .
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