Comments on: Where Have All The Candidates Gone? Serious Contenders Need To Get Organized! https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/ A different slant on the news. Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Garrettt https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23453 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:07:37 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23453 I was VERY close to the numbers and a part of the operation. I know the facts. When a ship is sinking some jump overboard and leave others to go down with the ship. Mr Schmader bailed and left others to sink.

]]> By: Fact Check https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23440 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:20:20 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23440 While it appears you’re both passionate about the River Festival, I’m pretty confident your facts are mistaken. If you talk to many of those who played key roles in the success of the Festival, I believe you’d find they are not on your same page.

]]> By: Garrettt https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23432 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:56:10 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23432 Paden is right….Schmader bailed just as the Boise River Fest went bankrupt. He made a lot of money running the show and then the show crashed. Timing is eveything.

]]> By: Fact Check https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23431 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:27:43 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23431 Paden, I think you may be confusing the original River Festival that ran successfully for many years with the next run that Schmader’s successor (who I won’t name) took over and pulled it into bankruptcy within two years. It’s important not to confuse the two.

]]> By: Paden https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23430 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:59:23 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23430 Schmader, you kidding me. You obviously don’t know why the River Festival stopped. He caused many people to lose thousands of dollars because of his mismanagement. He’s a joke to all those that tried to make the Festival a success.

]]> By: Nan Emouse https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23426 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:47:48 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23426 Fact Check. I think Stephen Youngerman has been in for 116 years. It’s time for him to go. And no Judy Peavey Derr. Can you imagine the havoc that she’d wreak? We’d be looking for a roofer to take her out at the next election.

Sounds like the top 2 take all.

]]> By: Fact Check https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23425 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:08:46 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23425 Anony: I agree with you on Steve Schmader because he’s a candidate with a vast tourism background and has the results to prove it. He was also the name behind the Boise Millennium celebration which was shown on National TV with 60 hot air balloons lining capital blvd during the last minute countdown. So fun! He also started up the H-Bowl which BSU won that first year. All efforts brought visitors, jobs and $$ to our great city.

Two seats are up for grabs at GBAD. While the incumbent is running (think he’s been in there 16 years…), he is one of 6 candidates in total that still has to win a seat via the election.

]]> By: todd https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23424 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:34:40 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23424 I think the biggest problem is the dirtiness of the campaign. Unfortunatly, the scrutiny a candidates family and past must endure scares many great potential cadidates away. If we just focused on the issues at hand and the candidates plans to address them it would bring out more candidates.

]]> By: Cyclops https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23419 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:03:23 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23419 Clancy, Are you NUTS? I wouldn’t be able to stay out of jail if I had to run against these jerks! Talk to the Guardian. He knows how unelectable I am!

]]> By: Cyclops https://boiseguardian.com/2011/04/21/where-have-all-the-candidates-gone-serious-contenders-need-to-get-organized/#comment-23418 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:01 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6310#comment-23418 Paul, I couldn’t agree with you more. The type of government you propose is infinitely better than what we have. The problem with a mayor and city council that is functional, is they become dangerous! As ours has.

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