Comments on: Election Results Send Strong Message

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:36:22 +0000

Response to Poet Paul:

When the government does things inane,
as it seems to again and again,
I’m afraid it will be noted,
that I actually voted,
so I’m the one who’s to blame.

By: cyclops

cyclops — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:25:28 +0000

64.07% That statement is just about the dumbest one I have heard! You have GOT to be working for the mayor. No logical person could think your “spin” would originate anywhere else!

By: 64.07%

64.07% — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:44:44 +0000

The election results proved that the vocal opponents of the streetcar will all be able to ride together in the streetcar at the same time once it is built.

By: dog

dog — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:01:06 +0000

I’m not surprised. Americans voted for George W. Bush twice!

By: serendipity

serendipity — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:23:45 +0000

ADR said: Unfortunately the incumbents will smugly take their re-election as a mandate that the public is pro-streetcar and pro-tax. Just proves that most voters are uninvolved and misinformed.
Yeah–also proves that some pigs can really fly.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:29:10 +0000

@Dave. I completely agree. It is a shame that so few people cared enough to vote.

Let us hope that we can still convince our city that we DO NOT need or want the trolly folly.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:25:08 +0000

Vote for who? A choice between TJ Thomson and Dave Litster isn’t much of a choice. Neither would represent my views to any great extent.

We need more and better candidates and the voters will turn out.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:29:30 +0000

You people amaze me. A handful of you show up to shout down the Council’s innocuous Healthcare Resolution, and you declare it a “grassroots mandate.” Then, when thousands of your fellow citizens vote for the candidates who support the street car, you insist it can’t be a mandate. Certainly nobody can be as bright as the people who meet on this lonesome site. My theory is that the voters of Boise are bright enough to know that the majority of those who do go to the polls will do their research and vote for the best candidates for the city. Those who don’t have time to educate themselves because local politics are not on a constant news stream are trusting that the reliable voters will educate themselves. You shouldn’t decry the results as the whim of fringe folk just because your horse didn’t win.

By: sam the sham

sam the sham — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:28:25 +0000

I don’t know anymore if it does matter who gets elected. I just don’t know. BUT I do know that it matters that we vote. We have a long history of people who have lost their lives just so that we could vote. So vote even it is just to honor them.

Hey, at least when you vote you have more of a right to complain about the idiots who got elected.

By: JIMV

JIMV — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:49:50 +0000

If the council will not listen to the public (note I did not say voters) then the only recourse is legal. Every time they do something remotely illegal, take them to court…and the parties should be the ones footing the legal bills.