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Just watched the 7/16/24 meeting and was disgusted with the dictatorial attitude of Karsky when telling people to stop clapping or they would be removed! I emailed him about my displeasure towards his attitude!

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Great article. This change of heart (insert sarcasm) has zero impact on me and until they listen to SDC after 3.5 years and stop targeting Leah, I don't see that changing. Karsky has lost 4 votes in my house and I am a NEVER KIPPLEY voter now. I plan to bullet vote for Cole. Let' the chips fall where they may. They made their bed.

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A great WIN for the PEOPLE! The largest county in the state needs to remain "in check". The power of the people will always win in the end! Just got to get them involved. The more the better!

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Thank you so much! Maybe Ne,particulaly, will take note, do a turnabout???

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Yesterday was quite a day for me at the Douglas County Board (interrupted then escorted from the podium) then later on Kfab's (1110 AM) 2- 6 PM talk show to challenge the (not awake yet) host. These people are not aware or are marxists!!!

https://commissioners.douglascounty-ne.gov/board-meetings/videos 7/23/24 - begining to 33:14 re Property Valuations (you can FFD to about 28;05 and again about 1 hr 16 min 36 secs in reply to their hob knobbing with Nat'l assn's (NACO and ALEC) rather Tan We the People at the Podium!!

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-emery-songer-117768691/ 7/23/24

- The People's Elbow ?

July 23, 2024 • 12 mins

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- Violent Tone & Rhetoric Heard From Both Sides THIS FOR SURE!!! (I don't think he played my actual comments - disagreeing strongly, loudly with him - about his remarks on a comment by a Rep. speaker , on the next election ,,,,,, and trying to cut me off. I haven't heard the rest, nor the early part so will do so today. he infuriated me - at around 4;15 PM. Revolution indeed!

July 23, 2024 • 47 mins

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Great News! No time to let up because the opposition will NOT! Vigilance is the eternal price of Liberty.

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Cindy Meyer calling Joe Kippley to change his party to Democrat from Republican is stereotypical and hypocritical. She's probably never had a conversation with a Democrat. What's concerning is having an auditor, Leah Anderson, that's an election denier. She found out that the machines are accurate.

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Directed to American Citizens of South Dakota, the People of Minnehaha County, and to all My Friends, and Family,

Why do so many people oppose "Home Rule Communities" despite not understanding what they are and are not?

The Constitution reserves to the "People" to maintain their homesteads, farmsteads, estates, and sovereign right to control the activity on their land, their property, yet alone, form their own government.

As some have brought forward a rough draft of a charter to the Minnehaha County Commission, I have heard so many people speak some pretty negative things about the attempt to do so.

A Charter does NOT create a Monarchial Government, it does not strip people of their rights, it simply creates a government structure that best can be defined by the people themselves.

Having participated in the C.R.C public meetings in Sioux Falls over the past 5 years, I have come to better understand charters, yet alone what a Home Rule Community is..

Do you not support your "right" to self govern yourselves?

The United States was created based on "Charters" from England. In fact, it was the 1609 Virginia Land Company that was granted a "Charter" from the King, to create a massive-sized Territory, so large, it became referred to as the Northeast Territory.

The "Charter" spelled out the form of government to be used in the territory, defined how the territory would be broken down into precincts, further broken down in "estates", homesteads, etc.

People forget that Virginia was basically sea to sea, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, and the land was governed by the charter.

Fast forward today, South Dakota and North Dakota were created from an Organic Act that Created Dakota Territory, to which created a temporary government, led by a Governor, Secretary, Code Council, a House of Representatives, and a Treasurer.

It would then govern over the territory, allowing for Americans to come in, claim land, obtain land patents to 160 and 320 acres of land, creating estates, to which later on, the people formed Counties.

As these groups of people organized, one county at a time, a 'State" was formed, and in order to maintain our right to self govern ourselves, we reserved to ourselves the right to create Home Rule Communities ...

Home rule in the United States is a system of local self-government that gives political subdivisions, such as counties or municipalities, the power to make decisions about their government without state approval. This includes the ability to determine the government's structure, functions, fiscal matters, and regulations. Home rule can also mean that state power doesn't infringe on local government authority in certain areas.

We did that, "WE" the "people" gave to ourselves the ability to control, manage, create our own governments, as we desired.

While some of us voiced our displeasure for the type of "Charter" brought forward to the County Commission, what we have to remember is 'we', and we only reserved to ourselves the ability to do so at any time.

Sioux Falls was created by several 'charters', mainly business charters, one from the State of Iowa, given to the Dubuque Land Company to whom claimed 320 acres of land along the west bank of the Big Sioux River above the Falls; and another from Minnesota, out of St. Paul, gave a charter to the Dakota Land Company to whom claimed 320 acres of land south of the Iowa charter, along the bank of the Big Sioux River - today, these two town sites are commonly referred today as "Downtown Sioux Falls''.

These 'chartered' colonies of people began to pop up all across Dakota Territory, some became homesteads, others became farmsteads, and others town sites, so of course we had the railroad and business companies claiming lands as well...

As the "State" was being formed between 1860 to 1890, the early framework to governmental statewide structure was being formed.

Land was being donated to house the Governor Mansion, the Capital, the State Administration Buildings, right down to the County and Local Governments themselves.

But lest you forget, the ability of the People to maintain their homestead, their townships was left intact.

And with that, Home Rule Communities were born.

In closing, I will end this narrative how I began, with a brief description of what was, and is Virginia:

Virginia Land Company, "America' was really founded by a people that was escaping a corrupted government official. These people included the Ulster-Scots, a Germanic People all to whom wanted to escape the political corruption of the Holy Roman Empire.

Listen to this video, pay extra close attention - Virginia was a vast wilderness from Sea to Shining Sea, the entire North American Continent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEyNWv5ruNE

Virginia is a Feminine form of the Roman family name Verginius or Virginius, which is of unknown meaning, but long associated with Latin virgo "maid, virgin". According to a legend, it was the name of a Roman woman killed by her father so as to save her from the clutches of a crooked official.

They created "precincts" throughout the Virginia Territory, to which created Plantations, Estates, and Colonies.

The American "States" were born from Organic Acts within a "territory" so large, that the people created this administrative form of government structure, to which those contemporary states were created based on prior arrangements, engagements, agreements, while protecting estates, homesteads, plantations.

If the People of Minnehaha County truly wish to have this conversation, then I urge the County Commission, our Elected Office Holders to adopt an Ordinance (or resolution) to create a Home Rule Charter Research Committee to be made up of at least 9 members, from each corner of the county, while inviting all township supervisors, precinct people, and voters to participate in a multi-year discussion, to study, research, and draft a charter that best makes sense to ALL the people of the county, while not stepping on the toes of each other. "We have the right to make our voices heard.

Thank You for Your Time, and I Sincerely would love to hear from each one of you in the future, to help form better, more positive discussion, without single-handedly disrespecting any one person.

Mike Zitterich

Minnehaha County,

Precinct Committee

www.siouxfallscommunitychronicle.com

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