Comments on: The Saga of John Paul Jones https://boiseguardian.com/2005/08/25/the-saga-of-john-paul-jones/ A different slant on the news. Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:04:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mike https://boiseguardian.com/2005/08/25/the-saga-of-john-paul-jones/#comment-104 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:04:15 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=86#comment-104 I’m a 15 year old teen and I personally know J.P. and his family. He is not as they claimed “wacko” he just has a know how that alot of people would not think. I have been downtown numerous occasions where JP and his children worked the cart. I think I can speak for many young people when I say JP insists that we eat for free and says “Ah put your money away.”
If my history serves me correctly John Paul Jones fought in the revolutionary war, and stated,
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
Keep fighting for the people JP and good luck.

Ed note–
JP calls himself wacko just like the GUARDIAN is a little wacko. Wacko isn’t always a bad thing. We need more wackos to keep the rest of the people from getting too comfortable doing nothing.

]]> By: Honas https://boiseguardian.com/2005/08/25/the-saga-of-john-paul-jones/#comment-103 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:01:53 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=86#comment-103 Chalk another one up for the “Good Ole Boys”. Being back in Boise for not quite a year, from a 12 year “Hiatus”, it is becoming clear that the collusion in the Capital City rivals that of Las Vegas during the “Bugsy” era. Who is really behind all these shenanigans, and why? (greed, one of the seven “deadly sins”!!) Citizens of Boise unite, stand up and greet you foe at the door of the ARID Club, let them know it’s not THEIR city any longer.

]]> By: Treva Hamilton https://boiseguardian.com/2005/08/25/the-saga-of-john-paul-jones/#comment-102 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:03:09 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=86#comment-102 Having retired from the title insurance business some years ago, I too am confused about property ownership. How, exactly, can one entity own the land and someone else the building? Our leaders in Eagle have done the same thing. Having lost at least two bond elections for construction of a new city hall (which was probably really needed, by the way) the city officials are having a city hall built on what is supposedly city property…so much for bond elections.

]]> By: Sharon Ullman https://boiseguardian.com/2005/08/25/the-saga-of-john-paul-jones/#comment-101 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:26:29 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=86#comment-101 The confusion arising from these ridiculous “quasi-governmental” agencies like CCDC is nothing new. Consider, for example, the unconsitutional financing they facilitate in collusion with various unethical elected officials. No one seems to even know who owns the new “Ada County” courthouse – not even CCDC OR the Ada County commissioners!

]]> By: Tam https://boiseguardian.com/2005/08/25/the-saga-of-john-paul-jones/#comment-100 Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:33:17 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=86#comment-100 As far as I am concerned whether ACHD, the City, or CCDC own it…THE PEOPLE own it.. ALL OF IT! So, that in mind, I find the hot dog vendors to be some of the last sign of real user friendly downtown. Leave it to the City Clerk and City Attorney to figure out a way to regulate someone out of a vocation and the rest of us out of the experience of chatting with John Paul. He and others are a part of the character and fiber of downtown. For pete’s sakes let them be.

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