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Why not make alcohol flavored cupcakes without alcohol?

l3wis 3Comments

All this hub-bub about fixing the laws so people can make cupcake frosting or other tasty desserts is worth the conversation. If for no other reason, for the fact that South Dakota’s laws on alcohol are way behind the times, including taxation. But the one thing I can’t figure out is why did this cupcake shop close?

Intoxibakes closed immediately, stopping online orders as they waited to work things out with city liquor licensors.

While I can understand the inconvenience of not being able to use alcohol temporarily, NOT sure why a cupcake business shut it’s doors until a fix is found. YOU MAKE CUPCAKES! CUPCAKES! Why not make regular non alcohol infused cupcakes until the law gets changed? Really!? There are several cupcake shops all over Sioux Falls that do it, and make it just fine.

I can understand though it would probably go against your business plan, but guess what, you can make all kinds of FAUX alcohol flavored baked goods using substitutes that have the same flavor qualities. There are substitutes for beer, champagne, brandy, Frangelico, coffee liqueur, etc, etc.

While I understand their frustration with Pierre, I think shutting down the business until it is fixed isn’t a real good business plan. Go make your cupcakes, and once our city officials and state legislators remove their heads from their butts, than you can go back to using the real deal.

Billy and Sally will never know the difference at their 6 year old birthday party.

GEEEZ!

Deb Peters Media Stace Nelson State Legislature

Senator Deb Peters objects to commemoration of Kennecke

l3wis 6Comments

It seems Peters is still in denial that Gear Up was one of the biggest scandals to hit our state in decades (oh, I forgot about EB-5);

As feuds in the Legislature go, there might be none deeper these days than between Sen. Deb Peters and Sen. Stace Nelson over the GEAR UP scandal.

Their dispute reached a strange low last Monday.

Peters invoked a legislative joint rule to stop, specifically, SC 28: Nelson’s commemoration recognizing investigative work of KELO television reporter Angela Kennecke.

I guess if I was Angela, I would be like ‘Oh Well’ just doing my job. I guess I have never been big on handing out awards to journalists who were simply doing what they should be doing, investigating. But it was pretty crappy of Peters to do what she did. She has become quite a piece of work over the years.

State Legislature

At What Point Freedom? HB1204 (2/14/2018)

l3wis 0Comments

Elder abuse and those who cause people in need to lose their rights must be stopped. HB 1204 has been introduced into the South Dakota House of Representatives in 2018 under the ominous sounding name Uniform Power of Attorney.

A proponent of the bill was asked if this was a consumer friendly bill and his answer was “it might reduce attorney’s fees.” What?

The Legislature got the 52 page bill introduced for passage with little time to read it much less understand it.

There are over 500 typographical errors as we read it. There are no definition of terms used.

There are words used with multiple definitions, which ones are we to use?

After you get past these errors we start looking at the questionable problems of usage. This legislation has put the protection of potential fraudsters ahead of the protection of a person needing help with a Power of Attorney.

If you want to know more about this mess, watch the video testimony and start to form your own opinions.

Everyone ages. In you time of need, we must be able to rely on people we trust to do the right thing and not worry an unscrupulous actor can interfere with your most precious and scary decisions of how we want to live in our old age and how we want to die. We need to protect the person before we can begin to protect the inheritance.

Help us defeat HB 1204. We must have updated Power of Attorney laws but they must first safeguard the person in need of help as a starting point. Please join us by writing to us at upoa@citizens4integrity.org with your stories of Power of Attorney and guardianship abuses. We need your help to stop this legislation in 2018.

Republicans SF City Council Sioux Falls State Legislature Theresa Stehly

Councilor Stehly; Leave the Initiative process alone

l3wis 3Comments

Theresa sent a fantastic letter to the editor to the Argus;

This is a letter to my dear Republican friends who are serving in the South Dakota legislature:

Please leave the initiated measure process alone. Having led two successful petition drives in Sioux Falls, I can tell you first hand that it is a huge undertaking for a grass roots campaign. It is working just fine the way it is. It is a valuable tool that the citizens can use to inject their voices into the process. It also serves as a “checks and balance” mechanism against bad legislation. To think that just because we are elected, that we make the best decisions at all times is arrogant, elitist and an abuse of power. This multifaceted effort to stifle citizen involvement and strengthen the agenda of the “power machine” in Pierre is an assault on the good people of this state.

The energy coming out of Pierre this year is very concerning to me and to many of the good citizens of South Dakota. Please leave the initiated petitioning process alone.

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