I can’t imagine there was any intent to commit a misdemeanor. Either he resigns or withdraws. That should satisfy. No investigation or punishment necessary.

EDITOR NOTE–You got it right, he resigns…see bulletin update.

Not so fast. The County Clerk must remove him from the ballot, because he was ineligible to even file to run. Both the SOS and the County Clerk have refused declarations of candidacy from potential candidates because the individuals weren’t qualified (for instance, they hadn’t registered with the Republican Party, or they weren’t registered long enough in their district.) The SOS did not allow the unqualified candidates to correct the deficiency after the filing deadline…so will the same standard apply to Dave Case?

EDITOR NOTE–We ran your question past Ada Clerk and chief election officer Christ Rich who said Case will remain on the ballot.

“Officer I didn’t know I was speeding.”

If a member of the ruling class breaks the law, then says “oh gosh I didn’t mean to”, what example should we set for the citizens? How about all those folks on parole, what should we tell them about pesky seldom used laws?

What strident comments. That statute is poorly written and could be taken two ways. I give Case the benefit of the doubt and certainly don’t see any foul worth comment. Looks like Ullman plants barking at the wind.

Am I wrong to think that if you are going to run for office that you, your attorney or possibly staff would check into the legalities of running BEFORE you throw your name out there? I don’t know Mr. Case but hearing “I have received some conflicting answers” makes me ask what else in the future will be blamed on bad information if he is to win? Will we all look back and say geez, he started off by not being knowledgeable about the law EVEN with the position he held with P&P, did we expect any different now? I think this whole situation is very telling of things to come…….

I’d like to see the commissioners be a non-paid position with a term limit. Or at very least disqualified from the state retirement program. Oh that sounds good. Disqualify any elected or appointed job from the retirement program.

While we’re at it: One term for President. 3 for Senator. House of Reps should be like a jury duty lottery for any qualified citizen and for one term only. (Vote from home is permitted) (Turn the House chamber into a movie theater)

And for every new law they pass, they have to void two old laws until we are down to about 100 laws again.

Now that I think about the whole system, it was developed before any kind of communication system other than smoke signals. With computers and internet we can all have input from home and eliminate most of the elected professional reps.

EDITOR NOTE–Your plan would devastate the economy—where would all the PAC money and lobbyist cash go?

There is the answer above, “intent” is the big thing. was there “intent” to violate this code. I, and I believe many of you agree, there was not. ISP officers and other police officers do not know every misdemenaor and felony code, look at the book sometime, there is a glossary to help locate codes when you don’t know what they say for sure. When you get differing answers from the county and state experts, ie lawyers, on the laws, its hard to say which way it goes. So, for sake of argument here, a mistake was made and has been rectified, there was no ‘intent” to violate the code.

Sal, are you a former cop? you seem to know alot about code.

Sal,
Intent is not a prerequisite for the prosecution of many crimes, such as speeding. Is this a strict liability law? I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know, but lack of intent alone is not always sufficient to not bring charges.

Also, you have to be a cop/fireman/hospital worker to name yourself after Salvadore Nez.

Nez, why dont you tell everyone how you know so much about laws…

It appears that 2 of the current commissioners have repeatedly broken laws (open meeting) with regards to the Dynamis situation. I would rather have someone in office that made a slight mistake and corrected it immediately versus someone whom may have knowingly and repeatedly broken the law.

He knew exactly what he was doing! And if he didn’t take the time to research the laws do we really want him making decisions for us? Perhaps his entire history needs to come forward an you will see the true Dave Case. First off he has quit the state three times now? So how is that a sixteen year career? And just why does he continue to ‘quit’ places?

Since my comment about what I feel Dave Case believes in was classified ‘as over the line’ please let him tell us in his own words what he believes. Does he hold himself and others to the letter of the law, or the ‘color’ of the law? And if he was required to resign his position with the parole commission why has he not cleaned out his office, or his position been advertised? Or are they actually holding his position open for him?

If his resignation is not immediate than he is still in violation of state laws. If they are holding the position for him is that really having resigned or is it just taking a leave of absence. Once again color of the law or letter of the law. Just another example of shady dealings and how the rules don’t apply to him. Had his opponent missed the deadline to file I bet he would not just say oh she didn’t know the rules and let her name go on the ballot. If he truely is honorable he will withdraw his name from the ballot.

sig is probably Sharon incognito.. she sure is conspicuous by her absence isn’t she.. the state probably hasn’t advertised the job because they have figured out there really is no need for hearing officers.. with Olivia’s penchant for denying everyone’s application anyway. Does her license plate really read Denied?
I would have to ask why anyone would expect a system insider to be held to the same rules as an average citizen. When we have Austin Plew, the ADA county deputy who groped a woman in a downtown bar, the officer/deputy in Dirty Little Roddies drunk on the bull with not just 1 but 2 concealed weapons, the BPD officer with his tazer in someone’s crotch. The list goes on and unfortunately on and on and on. With such upstanding role models how can we expect our elected officials to not adhere to those same high standards?
Let’s face it folks the laws apply to each of us equally… except they are more equal to some than others.

In a way I don’t blame him for not posting in this format, anything he says would be jumped on by the annonomus hoards. As bad as I hate to agree with Dave, if you are’t able to put your name and specific incidents out here you’re just muck raking. Give specifics so they can be veted for validity.