Sioux Falls Honors Lenin Favorite Pettigrew with Falls Park Statue

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:03:56 GMT

Source: madvilletimes.com --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
Of course Perry Groten would cover this event: the City of Sioux Falls now honors a vote-fraudster and Republican crony capitalist turned flag-insulting socialist sympathizer with a larger-than life Statue in Falls Park . The 900-pound, ten-foot bronze Statue of R.F. Pettigrew will gaze upon visitors who enter the park, while staying true to the artistic vision Darwin Wolf had nearly a decade ago. "My biggest fear was that it wouldn't be good enough for what it was intended to do, the agony and the ecstasy," Wolf said [Perry Groten, " Pettigrew Statue Dedicated at Falls Park ," KELOLand.com, 2013.05.17]. I'd like to organize some pranksters to go through the agony and ecstasy of swiping the Pettigrew Statue and hauling it across town to go toe to bronze toe with plutocrat T. Denny Sanford . Making one of Lenin's favorite writers the sentinel of Falls Park is a fine flip of the bird to the city that scorned this changed man a century ago: The Statue is holding a piece of paper symbolizing Pettigrew's request to the city years ago not to develop this area. "And the City blew him off and developed it and a hundred years later, we spend millions of dollars to do what he told us in the first place, so that's why that piece had to be here with that letter," Wolf said [ Groten, 2013.05.17 ]. The contents of Pettigrew's letter to the city calling for the preservation of Falls Park might make a nice inscription at the base of his new stat ...

Lenin Statue

Sioux Falls Honors Lenin Favorite Pettigrew with Falls Park Statue