More and more it is apparent that we are living in the movie Groundhog Day. Yet another week and yet again we have more stupidity from the mayors office and his determination to tear down the city. The things that should be a priority clearly are not. 

 

Rep. Newberger was a guest at Tuesday's council meeting and hit home on some serious points regarding getting new businesses to come here and the fact Sherco will suffer significant job losses in the near future with the war against coal.  He really hit home on what should be the priority and that is bringing new businesses and new jobs to the city which in turn will grow the city. No surprise, but all of this went right over the mayor's head or he couldn't care because he wanted to get to the audit of the golf course. 

 

The next three hours were filled with mind-numbing banter about the golf course. The mayor thinks the state audit is "the biggest thing to happen in three and a half years." This tells the entire story of a man who has no sense of reality and has only one agenda, destroy the golf course at whatever cost. 

 

The audit, which was an unnecessary expense brought forth by people who are narrow-minded thinkers proved to show very little. A few policy changes are probably in order at the golf facility, but there is nothing egregious, malicious or negligent contained within the report. 

 

Point being, all this mind-numbing discussion does is delay positive growth for the community and is an embarrassment to the hard-working citizens of Becker that have to deal with a mindless mayor and a small group of narrow-minded people that are only concerned with taking away city assets within the community so their taxes can be a few dollars lower than what they already have now. 

 

This mind-set that taxes should be going down or stay the same doesn't work when you can't grow a community because of the consistent bad-mouthing that comes out every time the mayor opens his mouth regarding this community. 

 

I learned a long time ago, you can't argue with stupidity and that is exactly what this issue is, stupid. We need more businesses and roof-tops here, not more small-minded thinking by small issue people. 

 

The conversation needs to be changed and changed quickly. The mayor won't change his tune, so I challenge the council to shift the discussion to bigger and better things.