Comments on: Boise City For Sale

By: erico49

erico49 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:55:07 +0000

Sara, good point. I stand corrected.

By: Sharon Ullman

Sharon Ullman — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:25:00 +0000

Jack – No, I would NOT attend the Sun Valley conference! When I was in office, I chose NOT to go to Sun Valley to discuss local issues, and I would continue to make the same decision in the future. It is my belief that elected officials travel, at public expense, far more than is necessary.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:03:40 +0000

Eric, why the governor’s office? Shouldn’t he also have to face the cameras? Let’s face it, when even the Boise Planning department has a spokesmouth, there is something wrong. These people spend way too much time trying to tell the public how we should think or feel about an issue and not enough time working for the people.

Any elected official should be able to answer questions of any citizen or any media person without the filter of a spokesmouth.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:26:30 +0000

Sharon,

Are you not going to attend the conference in Sun Valley after you are elected Ada county commissioner?

What about the “two hired professional P.R. people whose apparent responsibility is to put the politically correct spin on everything that comes out of the County, including huge increases in the County’s budget and spending”.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:56:28 +0000

Amen, Sharon.

The list for the City, County, school districts, and State is amazingly large. Lots are ex tv reporters. I can see one for the Governor’s office.. .past that, let them face the cameras themselves.

By: Sharon Ullman

Sharon Ullman — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:12:31 +0000

Taxpayers would be better served by local leaders who chose NOT to attend the conference in Sun Valley but, rather, insisted that local issues be discussed locally.

As far as paid lobbyists, it’s time for all of the area’s elected leaders to step up to the plate and do their own jobs – not just lobbying, but public relations as well. For example, Ada County has two hired professional P.R. people whose apparent responsibility is to put the politically correct spin on everything that comes out of the County, including huge increases in the County’s budget and spending.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:00:56 +0000

Cyclops, I don’t see the need for either.

I find it funny that we are still refer to the city polictico’s as primates
Evolution: Humans to Monkeys, Chimps, Gorillas

By: dog

dog — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:47:42 +0000

Good one Cyclops, but you forgot to describe the hind end of a baboon in your description!

By: Blazing Saddle

Blazing Saddle — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:39:41 +0000

The mayor and council, having hired a surrogate mayor-council, now need to complete the loop by hiring a surrogate constituency. They would then be free (paraphrasing Shakespeare) to bind themselves in a nutshell and declare themselves masters of infinite space.

The bard was talking about insanity. The idea of bunch of politicians hiring someone else to do their politicing is similarly insane.

Looking on the bright side, if the hired politician does a good job, next time around we can save some money by electing him to all of the positions and leaving out Bieter, Klegg, and the rest of the middlemen.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:16:23 +0000

I have had the opportunity to work with Ross and I think he is a stand up guy and ethical person, but I must admit I do not understand the whole industry, where each government agency hires an executive to communicate with other government agencies.

These agencies also hire lobbysists to speak with our legislatures. Why should one branch of government have to hire expensive lobbyists to speak to another branch of government? Are our politicians so out of touch that their own state agencies have to go through consultants just to be heard?

EDITOR NOTE–Yes.