Comments on: Boise Is The Best In The World!!

By: carol ann augustus

carol ann augustus — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:52:26 +0000

I could have been VERY excited about the special olympics in Boise. My eldest and youngest sisters are both mentaly challenged. They have both participated in the special olympics in years past. Unfortunately, there happened to be an incident in Boise at about the same time as the Special Olympics that put quite a damper on my excitement. There was an older man in the valley who had sex with 2 young, underage girls and got away with it without even having to be a registered as a sex offender! At that time, I just wanted to shout from the rooftops “Welcome to Boise, where it’s legal to have sexual relations with 15 year olds!”

By: dog

dog — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:14:26 +0000

Ever read the Peter Principal? When leaders rise to their level of incompetence they get PR firms because no one can relate anymore.

By: And, by the way

And, by the way — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:52:07 +0000

Isn’t Peyron the firm that screwed over the Special Olympics? A board member of the Special Olympics told me that Friday night. What WAS the WAC and Gene Bleymeir thinking? Did they not reference the firm? If you go on their website, they have only 2 or 3 current clients. How did this happen?

By: Flyonthewall

Flyonthewall — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:27:01 +0000

The Special Olympics were such an honor I am still getting calls from the organizers to help pay for this project. How much did it cost and how much did it bring into Boise. The calls I keep getting say it ran in the RED and still has outstanding bills to be paid or certain vendors will get stuck holding the bag.

Mayor Bieter was heard to say on KBOI this morning the election was a referendum on the Trolly Folly. The low turnout at 17% says people are fine, in fact, overwhelmingly in support of what is going on in Boise. Otherwise it would have been a case of tossing the rascals out.

“Silence Is Golden Let’s All Get Rich.”

By: dp

dp — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:59:14 +0000

I think you’re a jack a**. Why don’t you give the guy a break? I think it was an honor for the special olympics to be held here!!!! Don’t you have anything better then to put down people and the city of Boise? Also, putting people’s pay on the website????? You gotta be kidding. Don’t you have anything better to do. Why don’t you deal with your own life first.

By: Mr. Logic

Mr. Logic — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:12:23 +0000

db–
You make a LOGICAL point citing Coles and Kempthorne. Just look at how respected and admired those two leaders are today!

Would you like your kids to grow up and turn out like them? G-Man may not be kind, but he is LOGICAL.

By: db

db — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:45:17 +0000

Oooookaaaay. I mean, isn’t this kind of thing the mayor’s job? Didn’t mayors Coles and Kempthorne, and their predecessors, do the same thing?

Yes, there is definitely hyperbole in there, and I understand that the point of the original post is just that. I, too, laugh at how Boise makes list after list. But the comments show that some folks will make anything and everything a referendum on the mayor.

I don’t agree with all of Mr. Bieter’s positions, including the trolley. But I don’t fault him for using a successful event to tout Boise as a destination/event city in the hopes of drumming up more visitor money in a recession. And hey, an e-mail is as inexpensive as it gets. So how can the folks who regularly moan about property taxes and reckless government spending attack him over this?

I’ll take 1,000 stars-in-my-eyes press releases over a new convention center; wouldn’t you self-styled fiscal conservatives/libertarians/protectors of freedom say the same?

By: Clancy

Clancy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:56:34 +0000

Much ado about nothing-your article not Team Dave’s. The Special Olympics were a great honor for the city of Boise to host and one that Boise did quite well.

EDITOR NOTE–Clancy, no argument. But c’mon you gotta chuckle over “biggest and best in the WORLD!”

By: cyclops

cyclops — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:43:47 +0000

Why would anyone be surprised here? Bieter has made a career out of taking credit for someone else’s efforts to try and make himself look better! That great sucking sound is his administration draining the life out of this city!

By: Speckled Hen

Speckled Hen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:32:27 +0000

This reminds me of Bieter’s quote from when BSU played OU in the Fiesta Bowl, “When I went to the airport I saw that the security alert level was ORANGE, I knew that was a good sign.” Noboby told him that the TSA security alert level had been orange for several years prior to the game.

With that, mayors are supposed to be cheerleaders for their city in good times and in bad. Hyperbole is part of the job, otherwise they would never be elected or re-elected and couldn’t relate to an uninformed electorate that oftentimes believe the hype and phony rankings when they cast their votes.

Idaho cities (with a couple exceptions) do not have any type of chief executive or city manager to run the real operations of the city and keep it in check with reality while the politicians flaunt their relative lack of knowledge of how things really function.