Last updated on 2022-10-11
Smart Growth Sioux Falls, the municipal ballot question committee pushing to cap slaughterhouses within Sioux Falls city limits at one, has filed its first campaign finance report. We learn that the biggest individual donor is not Poet Ethanol chief Jeff Broin, whose swanky home and corporate office are both within easy stinking distance of the proposed Wholestone Farms hog-butchering plant, but his brother Todd*:
Todd Broin’s money is over half of the individual contributions. Cash from brother Jeff’s Poet cash is a third of the corporate contributions, matching the $25K chipped in by wholesale sign and swag maker JDS Industries:
SGSF has raised $93,825 and spent $83,797.57, 96% of which went for salaries and consulting.
No ballot question committees in opposition to the initiative and in support of the Wholestone Farms project have filed any financial reports with the Sioux Falls City Clerk. Sioux Falls ordinance requires SGSF and any other groups who may spend money on this municipal initiative, for or against, to file campaign finance reports on October 5, November 3, and January 11.
Correction 08:30 CDT: In my breakfast haste, I misread the Broin name and incorrectly attributed the $10K individual contribution to Jeff, not Todd. I regret the error and have corrected it. Todd lives on the far south side of town, about as far within Sioux Falls city limits as one can get from the impending doubling of slaughterhouse stink—if things get ripe around Wholestone, maybe Jeff can come stay in Todd’s basement.
Good for them. I am going to donate to the cause myself. If they stick us with two of these huge plants, we could soon be known as Slaughter Falls.
Slaughterhaus? :-)
Then the next time you climb up a mountain and stick your shaft into the ground and delcare “THIS IS WHERE I WILL BUILD MY CASTLE!” maybe you should check your surroundings. This is like buying a house next to the railroad tracks.