Mike Huether’s Future Plans?

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I know, I know, I know. I have completely failed in all my predictions about Huether’s future. I truly believe though that he did want to run for governor, but I think he did some internal polling on support ($$$) and saw there wasn’t a lot out there for him. I also think the siding settlement LIE has caused the public to lose all trust in him. While he may deny he lied or that people don’t trust him, I think he knows deep down inside that losing in Supreme Court didn’t look good.

So what will he really be doing?

Sure, he will probably take a few weeks off for a little R & R, but he will be right back at it as soon as he can, guaranteed.

I suggested a few months ago there has always been a Plan B, while I don’t know the deets of that plan, I do know this;

He encouraged Jim Entenman to run for mayor, not only to continue the developer boondoggle on the city, but to open up an opportunity for Huether to run in 4 years, or sooner. While he hasn’t ‘endorsed’ anyone, it is NO secret that Jim and Mike are good friends. As I understand it, Mike officiated Jim’s daughter’s wedding last year.

Jim barely showed up to meetings when he was a ONE-TERM city councilor, spending a entire month in Mexico each winter. I really don’t think Jim wants the job or wants to do it for 4 years. He simply wants to reap the insider information the mayor has on development deals.

I think Entenman will either resign in 2 years (he’ll have some strange family reason) which would open up a special election for mayor and put Huether in the running, OR he will appoint Huether as his Chief of Staff and just have him continue to run the city.

This of course means Entenman would have to win Mayor, a scary, dreadful scenario. It would be bad enough as Entenman as Mayor, imagine Entenman and Huether running the city together as a team?

I think this LETTER would tell us what kind of TEAM that would be;

If his (Huether’s) administration knew and didn’t reveal to the citizens what they knew, that’s corruption. If they didn’t know, that’s incompetence.

Oh, I think it was a little bit of both.

Suckered Again; Huether’s NON Announcement

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That will probably be the last presser the Mayor calls about his ‘future’ that anyone shows up to. In fact, I would even go so far to say, that I’m not sure if the press will ever show up to another mayoral press conference no matter what it is about. The wolf is dead.

I guess there should be a bit of celebration here, as of right now, the mayor has NO plans to run for higher office in 2018.

But to throw a press conference to show us you read the bible, you have family members, you still know how to fake cry and you have to tell your dead father’s story, just one more time would have been no different than me throwing a press conference to tell people a took a crap today.

There were a few moments that were laughable though;

I find it ironic that a deist like my self knows more about the teachings of Jesus Christ and the New Testament than Mike does. His actions as a policy maker have been anything but Christian or Jesus ‘LIKE’.

Shortly after reading his Bible passages he decides to take a shot at a mayoral candidate. He of course doesn’t name Greg Jamison, but it was obvious who he was talking about.

And the one that I found intriguing is that he wants to write a couple of books, one about himself. I find this interesting because I also plan to write something similar about Mike from my over 8 years of following him on my blog. It will basically be a condensed version of all the things I have blogged about him.

As you know, I have nothing personal against the mayor, I wish him luck with his bucket list, and am very, very, very happy that after May 2018 he will no longer be making policy decisions for our city, as long as the new mayor doesn’t hire him as a director . . . God help us, because if that happens we all will be reading the Bible a lot more.

Watered Down the Siding Presser (GP-Danielson)

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First let it be said, we never found the siding on the Events Center to be unsound structurally. What we did say was the siding job was “stupid looking” or “goofy” or “ugly” or “comical“ or “unprofessional” but never unsound. Until the soffit blew off the north side on Christmas 2016, we only dreamed it could be caught by the wind and blow off. The Vikings playground in Minneapolis had many panels blow off the same day, who would have thunk?

Remember when the City Council recently decided to pay for a consultant to look at the Events Center siding? The way the administration was handling the siding problems (among other things) was creating a lack of trust with their secrecy. So a Chicago vendor was hired after another secret RFP process was put together to make the wounded citizens and Council feel better. We wonder if da mayor understood the optics of another secret RFP / RFQ? Probably not.

This led to the urgently called mayoral presser called on January 5, 2017 at the Events Center to take credit for things having nothing to do with the moisture issues we have been concerned about. He decided to remind us how we bought a building with many flaws we aren’t supposed to know about. We have witnessed issues over the past few years but he does not care. He brought along Mark Cotter to make it look legit. As Mark finished his review of the City Council’s report, the mayor decided to take a turn using his spin machine. What a waste of time. For 16 minutes we were reminded of his greatest success as mayor, spending $180 million in infrastructure money to satisfy his ego (A $10 million dollar mortgage, per year, that comes directly out of our roads fund, the 2nd penny).

The press was then able to ask questions and get less than satisfactory answers for another 30 minutes. Cameraman Bruce was there to pick up a report and attempt to ask a question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DqubO0Lfbg&feature=youtu.be&t=25m9s

Da mayor brought back his “you’re not media crap again” when Bruce was speaking. KELO Radio’s Todd Epp decided Bruce’s question deserved an answer so he repeated it to get the speakers to answer it.

As you view the video playback, remember how little this mayor cares about the truth. Consider these questions:

• The walls have had water inside them, the rust proves it.

• There  are gaps all over the building needing to be fixed, to slow down the water flow into the walls. When will these be fixed?

• The poorly designed flashing has rivets popping. How did they manage this? The expansion and contraction of the 16 foot long panels will continue to rip the rivets out, how do we stop it?

• Why didn’t we hear about reverse flashing issues which let water into the walls and around windows?

• We did not find out about heat buildup issues caused by the poor ventilation. Oh yes, it’s Winter in South Dakota so no hot temperature to measure.

• We did find out the siding needs to be looked at every ten years but how bad will it be by then?

• We did find out the Imetco siding used cheaper butyl (oil based) caulking which melts in hot weather causing it to leak down the walls and collect dirt. Do we have a big enough pressure washer to clean it off every year?

• There is more we did not hear about because the consultants would have had to pay to remove siding to look at the Tyvek air filtration barrier being used as a water barrier. But they could have went from the backside.

• No mention was made of the lack of a water barrier like the Vikings playhouse has. As the siding moves and Tyvek breaks down, how do we know when to rip off all the siding and replace all of it?

• We did find out the siding was placed on the building according to the engineers and architects plans. This just proved MJ Dalsin did what they were instructed to do. There were no problems with their work, only with the way the Construction Manager at Risk cheapened the Events Center project with the mayor’s likely blessing? A question he has refused to answer for several years and again refused to answer yesterday.

BTW, when we will we ever see the $5,000 Judd Allen report?

Is Huether being tapped to run the Sioux Falls Development Foundation?

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Ok, my DaCola contacts have been spit-balling tonight what Mike’s BIG announcement will be on Monday. Announcing a political race is probably unlikely.

Some think he will run some non-profit, or give tennis lessons, etc.

But one of them said to me, “You think he might run the development foundation?”

Hmmm. That’s an organization that loves secrecy and bilking taxpayers. Seems right up his alley.

Briggs, can you get some BINGO cards put together for Monday?

Watch his latest ‘Ask the Mayor’ where he pats himself on the back so many times he might have to re-commission his robotic arm.

MayorCam & RexCam photos (H/T – Cameraman Bruce)

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Last Tuesday night I decided to join the many fellow citizens of Sioux Falls who opposed the golf course RFP / RFQ process. As someone who does not play golf anymore, my input was on process, not because I would have anything to gain. When Detroit Lewis left the podium, I went up with my trusty clipboard.

Recently the city started blocking my exhibits during my input time so I decided to bring my exhibits on the back of a clipboard. This one seems to bother a couple of the members of the dais:

Rex Rolfing seems to get upset by hats and other things, did not like my clipboard and asked the mayor to force me to take it down.  When the mayor shook his head and refused to do it,

but the camera changed to a close-up without the “offending” clipboard.

As I tried to conclude my thoughts about federal crime and city government Rex continued to interrupt mentioning to the dais I was at least not getting a one finger salute while speaking.

See the entire show with MayorCam and RexCam running. This whole process has been delayed by not posting the CityLink / SIRE video immediately as usual and then a strange flaw at the 37% point, approximately where my input was. I was next thinking I would see a frozen video or floating Wizard of Kiley head again.