Comments on: Tax-Exempt Status In Campaign Finance Questioned https://boiseguardian.com/2010/09/29/tax-exempt-status-in-campaign-finance-questioned/ A different slant on the news. Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:17:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Timm! https://boiseguardian.com/2010/09/29/tax-exempt-status-in-campaign-finance-questioned/#comment-20390 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:17:23 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5428#comment-20390 Well, now that unlimited corporate money is considered protected speech in campaign finance, I suppose it was only a matter of time before corporations started looking for ways to further increase their legislative clout. Cutting NPO’s out of the picture is a good start.

]]> By: serendipity https://boiseguardian.com/2010/09/29/tax-exempt-status-in-campaign-finance-questioned/#comment-20359 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:22:13 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5428#comment-20359 “Educational effort”?
If they can get away with this, soon political campaign ads for candidates will be claimed as educational efforts.

This ploy needs to be nipped in the bud before legitimate and prudent regulation of the spending of public money simply vanishes forever. I am annoyed, rather than shocked, that the Boise city council goes along with this travesty of effective and fair governance.

]]> By: John L. Runft https://boiseguardian.com/2010/09/29/tax-exempt-status-in-campaign-finance-questioned/#comment-20358 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:08:29 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=5428#comment-20358 Throughout Idaho Statehood, the Idaho Supreme Court has consistently and strongly supported the voters’ right to approve or reject public funding:
“The framers of our Constitution were not content to say that ‘no city shall incur any indebtedness in any manner or for any purpose,’ but they rather preferred to say that ‘no city shall incur any indebtedness or liability in any manner, or for any purpose.’ It must be clear to the ordinary mind, on reading this language that the framers of the Constitution meant to cover all kinds and character of debts and obligations for which a city may become bound, and to preclude circuitous and evasive methods of incurring debts and obligations to be met by the city or its inhabitants.” Feil v. City of Coeur d’Alene, 23 Idaho 32,50, 129 P. 643 (1912; upheld in in Koch v. Canyon County, 145 Idaho 158, 177, P.3d 372 (2008)

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