awesome! any ideas as to why these people keep getting elected? This “do as I say but not as I do” leadership style is indicative of weak leadership, why do we keep putting these crooks in office? Our entire state is full of people who continuesly get caught for stealing, or taking bribes, or tapping someone’s foot in a bathroom, when will all this crap stop?

Same deal, why is the Mayor of Star and a couple buddies trying to ram through a very vague contract for the city to spend $15,000 to do a study to see if an ice skating is feasible in Star. Follow the money!

It is said you are what you eat, however, with politicians it is you are who you accept money from.

How the people’s money is spent is none of the people’s business. I was elected by the people to do what is best for them. 😉

I don’t know about that whole Dynamis dog-and-pony show; it has a certain “Emperor’s New Clothes” flavor to it.

With regard to the beer wholesalers, IMO the contribution isn’t particularly noteworthy. The malted beverage industry buys million$ worth of barley, hops, etc., from Idaho growers. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if all 4 of our congressional representatives get money from the beer lobby. (And 3 of the 4 are Mormon. That’s GOTTA be scary to the Mormon-haters, huh?)

Is it hypocritical? Well, I’m a Mormon and I don’t drink, but I have nothing against the beer industry. (I do have issues with people who get drunk and hurt other people.) I also happen to believe that cannabis should be decriminalized, even if I choose not to indulge.

EDITOR NOTE–Maybe a bit “unfair” to bring in religion, but you gotta admit it is sort of like the same players taking money from the Planned Parenthood folks–at least with that group they can claim the organization does more than abortions. The entire concept of politicos being paid by ANY interest group is just tawdry.

@Ronin: Nothing goods comes from a revolution until decades after, even when it goes well. We don’t need a revolution, we need to attract different people to be leaders. What if we had Bill Gates or someone on par with him as our national president? We just need to stop electing sales people to leadership jobs.

thanks there snoop, I’ll take that into consideration, so long as we are all poking at each other, why don’t you change your name, ‘snoop’ takes from the credibility of the statements you make.
Zippo, I agree that it takes time to rebuild from revolutions, although I also know that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right, and that normally takes time, as the old saying goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a day”
and I agree, Bill Gates would most certainly get my vote.

Bill Gates as president? And Zippo says we need to stop electing sales people?

Um, Bill Gates is arguably the best salesman ever! He and a few of his geek buddies created a SALES empire that’s probably never sold a truly innovative product. They’ve either purchased or stolen the good ideas of others, tweaked and fine-tuned ’em, and the rest is marketing clout. (If I’m wrong, tell me what product Microsoft has developed, before somebody else already developed a similar product.)

He seems to have a good heart – witness the billions he donates to various righteous causes. But success in one endeavor does not equate to success in everything.

Donald Trump for president? Bill Gates for president? Michael Jordan or Lance Armstrong for president? Ha!

@bb: And he did a damn fine job of organizing/leading that big monstrosity you described so well. MSFT is not upside down in debt last I checked and I bet you’d have one hell of a hard time getting Bill Gates to give a crap about lobby money. Innovative leader yes, and yes you are correct, one of his hats is that of salesman.

I don’t think Mr. Gates would be spending trillions and 10s of thousands of troops to protect the Arabs from their neighbors while sending them free food, medicine, and tecnology, while also paying $100 for oil.

Soon I hope, Maybe he can start by getting some answers and try to get our money back.