‘Who is getting screwed, and how bad?’
During public input tonight at the Sioux Falls City Council meeting, former Commissioner Robert Kolbe made the above statement that he said he took from Jim Abourezk’s memorial service.
I wasn’t quite sure where he was going with the testimony, but he ended with something like this;
‘You should take that barren wall you have downtown (bunker ramp?) and in the middle have a photo of the last four mayors and on top it would say ‘Sioux Falls is a great place to live . . .’ and under them it would say ‘In spite of them’.
As Kolbe leaves the podium Mayor Grunty says out loud into his microphone ‘Classy’.
I am starting to wonder what Poops has against former elected officials? Oh that’s right, they understand history (and probably don’t skip their afternoon naps so they are not a grumpy, grunting, mumbling chair at the meetings). I will start to get worried when he shows up to the meetings with a milk mustache and cookie crumbs on his shirt.
Every time I see the mayor do this, it seems he is trying to get a laugh out of councilor Jensen, which oddly reminds me of this scene;