Comments on: Politics Is Tearing Us Apart, City, County, State, And National

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:48:47 +0000

Who owns the office holder… it’s not you, the voter.

http://www.opensecrets.org/

By: Bill McCrory

Bill McCrory — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:27:51 +0000

The issue is one of Incompatibility of Office.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:36:53 +0000

Zip, some people live longer than others, it all averages out. Some say that the federal government is just a large insurance company (SS & Medicare), with an army.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:13:26 +0000

Boy’s boy’s…..lets stay on topic

By: Zippo

Zippo — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:50:56 +0000

Rod, something tells me it will not bother you a bit to take more from the system then you paid in.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:02:16 +0000

Zippo,

I guess when you become 62 you are going to refuse Social Security and when you reach 65 you are going to refuse Medicare, even though you paid into them for decades. That’s what your “benefit/handout/entitlement” is. They may be entitlements, but they are not handouts.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:03:46 +0000

The repeated, intentional violations of our constitution by our governments is to blame for “tearing us apart”. The only people who seem to be ok with these unprecedented violations are those collecting some kind of government benefit/handout/entitlement, or over-stuffed pension. They also complain about the “radical” concerns found on FOX and AM radio. Many of them know better but don’t want to rock their boat full of loot. I will not pity these fools when it all implodes. Have a look see at what happened to the government pension plan of the USSR. That will happen here if the greed does not stop. It is happening now in our most rotten cities. And also in that wonderland of economic and social nirvana, aka Europe.

Lipstick will not fix this one.

By: Kappa TA

Kappa TA — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:19:45 +0000

On the bright side, Idaho Legislature has passed legislation that would put the state’s Attorney General in charge of investigating county elected officials for open meeting law violations by county commissioners and other transgressions, including those by county prosecutors. Current law sets up conflicts of interest, requiring county prosecutors to investigate violations by county officials-including themselves.

The legislation, now headed to the Governor for his signature, calls for the addition of one deputy AG and one investigator, at a cost of $212,600.

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2013/mar/25/house-passes-bill-put-g-charge-investigating-county-officials-crimes/

About time!

EDITOR NOTE–Do you think maybe, just MAYBE someone read the GUARDIAN when we called for such a law six months ago??!! Thanks for the tip.
https://boiseguardian.com/2012/09/22/group-drops-another-bombshell-on-dynamis-ada-deal-law-should-allow-ag-to-investigate/

By: Clancy

Clancy — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:01:30 +0000

Have you seen the antics up north? CdA looks like a circus.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:32:45 +0000

And now the Chamber and Mayor are soliciting GBAD to hand over GBAD’s bank account to help fund the new “baseball” stadium since GBAD has decided NOT to build a new convention center. With the sleazy back-room politics in moving the Convention Bureau to the Chamber…the Chamber gets its hands on the $850K ITC grant…starts to bankroll Bieter’s pet projects…and Boise falls off the map even further. GREAT!