Well, I know who to vote for – Cunningham. It would be nice not to have a lockstep, kneejerk, tax and spend spend spend liberal on the Council. Might even shame the others into doing the right thing or at least making it harder for them to do truly stupid things.

Oh, and I don’t think that was much of an education by Bieter. An expression of pique, petulance, arrogance or slime, but an education? Not so much.

If you want A true conservative voice on City Council, Vote Lawrence Johnson. Endorsements also include: Rep Lynn Luker, Rep Joe Palmer, Rep Marv Hagedorn, Sen Shirley Mckague, Sen John Andreason, Comm Sharon Ulman, Comm Rick Yzaguire, Comm Vern Bisterfeldt, Building Contractors Association, and Dawn Hatch. These Leaders have endorsed me as the conservative cadidate for City Council seat 2.

I know city elected positions are “non-partisan” (nudge-nudge, wink-wink), but when candidates run unopposed, it really irritates me and my fellow VTBO partisans.

(“Vote The Bums Out.” As a rule, I believe in government “by the people,” rather than by career politicians. And the LAST person I want to vote for is somebody who’s the lap dog of the head honcho.)

Mike Cunningham had my vote the moment I learned of his candidacy. I know him to be an honest and honorable person who has the good of citizens foremost in his thinking. His statement about the City falling into line with other taxing agencies is just common sense, it isn’t as though there are massive infra-structure issues involved in this cycle and his statement speaks to reality. I am surprised that Bieter would make such an obvious mis-step about this, he usually is more sure footed than this.

Mr. C shepherded our three children through elementary school and I’d vote for him for any office he would seek.

Soon to be Third Term… not If Dave Hall has anything to say about it… and BIke Boy those “Agenda” things were proposed by one person and concensus was not reached http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/ Pay special attention to the word proposed.. Please educate yourself before you have opinions.. P.s. we ALL vote.

bikeboy, where to begin?

First, your insistence that the Occupy Together movement actually has a list of demands is directly refuted by the link Jake offered.

Here’s the text from the header of that article (that you might have missed), “This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly.” In short, the list of “demands” you’ve attempted to attribute to the Occupy movement wasn’t made by the Occupy movement.

Second, no one (to my knowledge) in the Occupy movement has ever asserted that if a sensible tax structure were reinstated — which would restore historic tax rates upon the wealthiest of Americans — that it would magically erase the debt.

Thirdly, you are right regarding the pending crisis facing America. No matter what political or economic changes we’re able to implement — we’ll all be still stuck in our (collective) SUV’s at the end of America’s cul-de-sac (to paraphrase Jim Kunstler). But I would rather be in a situation where we’re all pulling together for a promising future, rather than strapped to the chariots of a ruling class.

I would also hazard to guess that a significantly higher percentage of OccupyBoise members (much higher than 20-30%) will be voting in the local elections — I can’t speak for other citizens though.