Comments on: Eagle Mayor On Legal Thin Ice

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:12:49 +0000

Dang with that Kind of talent what does this job pay? Or do they all have a agenda that they plan on implementing that will make them all profitable. Should I be more trusting of these people?

By: Mr. Logic

Mr. Logic — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:30:26 +0000

G-Man you get a knuckle bump on this one and I will even spring for a tenner on the donate button. The Daily not only didn’t get the background you provided, they didn’t seem to care. It just doesn’t seem…LOGICAL

By: Grumpy ole guy

Grumpy ole guy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:24:40 +0000

Good Lord, Tom Anderson, with a cynicism like that you, too, are going to become grumpy. Welcome to my world, Tom. Too many years have I seen the haves, have, and the others remain outsiders, disaffected, and, eventually, disenfranchised.
(Sorry about all the commas, I was taught English a very long time ago, by a teacher who really liked them)

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:17:25 +0000

Here is how the game is played…

When it is time to bring on a new player, the old leaves before their term is up. This allows one of the good ol’ boys (or girls) to be appointed.

Come voting time, the voters usually just vote for incumbents, so the temp turns into a career politician. This keeps the rich and powerful in charge, and the dirty peasants out.

By: JB

JB — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:03:09 +0000

This is part of the interview Bandy provided the Valley Times from this past Monday, he writes his own propaganda as he has proudly announced in previously pen article in the Valley Times and Statesmen

Below is what he claimed prior to fixing the problem.

Mayor Phil Bandy said 10 applicationswere received but “a recent review of the Idaho Public Records Act suggests the release of that information may not be allowed.”Idaho Code, Title 9, Chapter 3, Section 40C(1) states that information about applications including names “shall not be disclosed to thepublic without the applicant’s written consent” and only the namesof the five final applicants “shall be available to the public.”

Bandy tends have his own interpretations of what Idaho Statutes define as the Law, we have seen it in many issues here in Eagle, makes you concerned the City attorney is a good waste of taxpayer dollars.

EDITOR NOTE–Here is how the Supremes viewed it: “A member of a city council is a local governmental official, not an employee. I.C. §§ 50-701 to -704 (1994). Because the exemption from disclosure contained in I.C. § 9-340(36) does not apply to an applicant for appointment as a local governmental official, we conclude that the name and resume of an applicant to be appointed to a city council are NOT exempt from disclosure.” This decision is the applicable law.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:34:01 +0000

I think its sad when public official think they can do what ever they want. Maye if this continues we can get a recall petition going.

By: Clippityclop

Clippityclop — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:44:05 +0000

Either the Mayor of Eagle is inept (igornant of the law despite counsel) or willful/manipulative. In either case, he’s a woeful administrator and undeserving of the public trust. Phil, you gotta go. Let somebody who knows what they’re doing run the City or at least make honest false starts. Your track record is lame and there’s too much at stake.