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Despicable

l3wis August 30, 2016 32Comments

It is about the only word I can use (besides some choice cuss words) to describe what the city attorney, the mayor and city clerk did to invalidate the signatures. A pure technicality based on the oath. The oath used on the petitions was a state oath (that is actually more stringent then the municipal oath, from what I understand just says the circulator should be a Sioux Falls resident). IMO, that could be easily fixed by just checking to see if the circulators are SF residents, which as far as I know are.

Ultimately this is the failure of the city clerk. The city clerk, Tom Greco, a guy who wasn’t even registered to vote until AFTER he was hired to be city clerk, must review and stamp a petition before it can be circulated. I also find this ironic, considering during the past city election campaigns, Greco was calling candidates about editing their financial reports, and allowing them to fix mathematical errors before posting them. He seemed to catch the minute accounting errors on these reports, but didn’t catch an oath? It is his job to make sure the petition was correct before it was circulated. He should have told Danielson at the time it was the incorrect oath, he did not. Failure of the city clerk to do his job properly as the municipal election overseer is a fireable offense. The city council could move forward and fire him for not properly performing his duties.

I warned Danielson that it would be an uphill battle, because our city clerk and city attorney will try to find any loophole they can to get their way. Mayor Huether’s administration doesn’t like to lose or interference from the citizens. He proved this with his two tie-breaking votes and the veto. It may be as simple as a judge saying the petitions are valid since the circulators took an oath and the petition signers are valid. It seems that is our only option now since city administrators that we pay with our taxdollars put up a gigantic middle finger to all the people who signed the petition.

Several elected officials across the state hate petitions. Mayor Huether proved this when he refused to sign the snow gate petition even though he supported them publicly. Before Shantel Krebs became SOS, she also told a petitioner that she doesn’t sign petitions and didn’t believe in that process. These are people in leadership folks, running our elections. That should scare the CRAP out of all of us.

Stop the Funding on Knobe

l3wis August 27, 2016 1Comments

Stop the Funding co-chair Bruce Danielson was on Rick Knobe’s ViewPoint University on August 26, 2016 talking what’s next updates. Rick and Bruce had a great discussion of what’s next in the process of going to the public vote or not.

Will the mayor make our vote illegal or not, this is the question the voters of Sioux Falls get to ponder.

Listen to Rick afternoons on ViewPoint University, am 1140, KSOO radio 4 to 5pm.

Stop the Funding to make the radio rounds Friday

l3wis August 25, 2016 10Comments

Bruce Danielson will be on KELO AM in the morning (around 7:40 AM) and on KSOO (around 4:45 PM) to talk about the petition drive. There have been some questions about the funding of his drive and the robo calls. Bruce has told me that all but two donations have been under $100. One was from a retired person who has NO skin in the game, just concerned about open and transparent government and the other was the in-kind donation of office space from the owners of the 300 building.

You can listen to replay of KELO AM HERE.