Amid deepening federal probes into city finances…three city officials involved in the pension crisis calls it quits.
English-born mortician Percy Benbough was elected mayor in 1935. Four years earlier SD had adopted its new charter… one mayor resigned, another was jailed, three councilmen resigned, and we had four city managers. Sound familiar?
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“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower, l952
