Comments on: G-BAD Election Heats Up (More)

By: tmdoylie

tmdoylie — Sat, 07 May 2011 01:40:11 +0000

Owyhee, please expand on your comment. Have heard this before. Must be a good reason and would like to know more.

By: Owyhee

Owyhee — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:04:13 +0000

Actually,the 800 pound gorilla that nobody mentions is Bobbi Patterson, the executive director of the BCVB. This is and always has been about her, although nobody is saying it. She probably shuld have retired a decade ago. If she were gone, you would likely quickly see things heal between the BCVB and GBAD.

By: transparency

transparency — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:11:11 +0000

In all fairness, some of the hotel room numbers mentioned above represent legitimate new business.

By: transparency

transparency — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:33:39 +0000

In reality they took credit for approximately 65,000 hotel room nights booked each year.

By: Paden

Paden — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:12:55 +0000

CVB’s are known around the country for their grossly over inflated numbers, and chest beating self edification. In Boise, they continually took credit for events they had nothing to do with. They claimed to generate 10,000 to 15,000 hotel room stays. Here’s the problem: the average room rate in Boise has been around $75, that represents $3.75 in room tax. The BCVB was getting $1.3 million illegally from the GBAD. Divide the $1.3 by $3.75, that’s 346,666. So, they bring in 15,000 room nights, but it takes 346,666 room nights to pay for their service. Now there’s a business model.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:00:38 +0000

You have to admire these people. They get the voters to approve a goofy Auditorium District to buy advertising services from this group with taxpayer money. It really is slick and the only thing is I wish I had thought of it first.

Nepotism is not tolerated unless you are a friend or relative.