Before the elections this past Tuesday I did some trolling on various online forums to see if I could find what people were saying about the campaigns. The thing I heard the most was that Stehly was going to lose because she is negative and Brown was positive. It proved to be true.
These days I have found people prefer to be lied to as long as what they here is positive. The ugly truth does not interest them.
I had the opportunity to be close enough to Stehly’s campaign to review her mailings and website and I asked her several questions about how she came up with some of the information.
Guess what, Theresa never lied about anything. Her campaign newsprint mailer, paid for by her campaign and an obvious promotional piece was dubbed as a fake newspaper not only by people online in forums but by the Gargoyle Leader (I guess they were miffed because the mailer used a mock logo of the USA TODAY which is owned by media-monopoly-corporate-giant GANNET which also owns our down home friendly daily paper). If you read the paper carefully and check on www.siouxfalls.org you will see that Brown’s voting record was as Stehly said it was, and you will also find a PDF of the document where Brown and other councilors donated money to the indoor pool campaign. Yup, the truth. How tragic and negative indeed.
Sure there was an endorsement in the mailer written by Stehly’s friends, but wouldn’t we expect that? After all, she paid for it. Brown‘s mailings were full of vague information that you could interpret several ways, something they call in politics wiggle room. For instance he claims he is saving the city money by buying the Zoo. Huh? Don’t we subsidize the place now because we decided to buy it? Wouldn’t that mean we are losing money on the facility every year? Isn’t that untruthful?
Honestly I don‘t have a personal problem with Vernon Brown. Never had. I actually went to High School with his wife Tammi, who is very wonderful brilliant person. I have to agree with Kermit Staggers on the matter, he just felt Stehly was the better candidate and so did I, because she was truthful and didn’t sugarcoat what is going on in this city. A day before the election, Stehly said to me “Scott, I have always been truthful in this campaign and that is what is important.†Stehly is right. But apparently 60% of the voters in Tuesday’s election prefer to be lied to. Apathy is NOT a beautiful thing.
i like vernon. i like that he’s nice. i like that he’s non-controversial (and that i usually agree with him). i even kind of like his hat.
sorry dude. sometimes ya win, sometimes ya lose.
I kinda like Vernon to, if I had a choice between him and Munson, Jamison, Knudson or Costello, I would pick him first. The problem I have is when politicians claim they have a mandate when they only receive 8% of the potential voters. Pleesssssse. I knew voter turnout was going to be low, so chill with this mandate crap. I think Vernon should have humbly accepted his win and moved on. There is a lot of issues that couldn’t be brought up in this election that are coming down the pipe this year. Some of it could possibly almost bankrupt our city. I’m not saying being a fiscal conservative all the time is a good idea. But as Kenny Rogers sang “You got know when to hold them, know when to fold them, and know when to walk away and know when to run.” You are going to see a lot of runners. I can almost guarantee that. And BTW, curious if Brown will even finish his term as a councilor, I just saw this as a stepping stone to be mayor. Maybe they will appoint Stehly to his seat in 2010 when he becomes mayor.
It was 14% turnout, you twit.
And Vernon got 60% of that (8%), twit, twit.
So I guess the voters are not only apathetic but bad at math.
Rock on, Theresa! – and thank you for making the attempt to represent me and my family (the average citizen of Sioux Falls) – we hope 2010 is a possibility to do so once again –
I see they are trying to boondoggle Joe Six-Pack again. They want supposed ‘citizens’ to sit on the Event Center committee, BUT you have to fill out a questionairre and be appointed by the Mayor. Ah, dumb.
More on this tommorrow, I’m going to start digging in this, and reveal the elitists and their BS.