Comments on: 2/3 of Boise Council Appointed Before Election https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/ A different slant on the news. Sun, 08 Feb 2015 16:37:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: dave+zarkin https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98934 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 16:37:10 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98934 Can we assume that Buck Jones and Ralph Frazier are no longer on the council?

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98933 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 16:06:57 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98933 I didn’t say e-voting sport. I said continuous e-polling of qualified. No more election days and associated manipulations. Considering the entire world, including huge money movements are done with a keyboard, I see no need for the misrepresentation and overspending we suffer at city hall. (Wonder if we can get TeamDave to pony up the numbers for money which never returns to the citizen… ie pensions and perks etc.)

And “qualified” would be same/similar to those currently eligible to vote… but participation would be so much easier.

Horse owners made fun of trucks and tractors once upon a time too. I think this concept is the future.

Can’t fight city hall, but you can de-fund it and contract it’s functions out to people who do what we want them to… and for cheaper too. There is no profitable corporation in this country as top-heavy and wasteful as a typical city.

So to be clear: Hire a corporation via contract to provide city functions… and control it with continuous citizen input via electronic link.

]]> By: L.D. https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98932 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 15:05:25 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98932 Didn’t I mention this over a month ago, but was then hit with a torrent of criticism about voting or running for office myself…
Bunch of gas bags on this site…

]]> By: Easterner https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98931 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 01:12:09 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98931 Most entertaining is Zippos comment of “polling of ‘qualified’ citizens”.

First, we would have to find qualified citizens. Then those 10 people could just meet at a coffee shop.

There is quite an ample study of the good and bad of actually implementing an electronic voting system- conclusion: good idea that would not work too well.

erico49, “paid for by the airport” is actually paid by by airport. It operates in a separate budget from the city where the revenues are from users, etc. Kinda like when a kid lives at home and buys a car with “their own money”…

You can’t fight city hall!

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98930 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 20:55:45 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98930 DO, Yes good points. In fact why have representatives/commissioners at all. How about direct democratic government via secure electronic interface. A continuous electronic polling of qualified citizens giving direction to a few government contractors. Yes contractors, which expire or can be under-bid rather than grow into the plantar-warts running our wasteful governments today.

As for the draft. I wonder why the feminists have not complained that only men are registered?

Our airport? Are the traffic counts still less than 12 years ago? Dang, we should spend more money a fancy stuff to increase business right?

]]> By: erico49 https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98929 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 13:16:27 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98929 The funny thing about the airport artwork was the statement on local news that “the City didn’t pay for it. It was paid for by the airport.”

]]> By: DO https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98928 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 10:55:00 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98928 It always amazes me how in this day and age we still cannot get online voting, nor do incumbents profile themselves really well.

Oh, I know how it would go. Rather than contract with a vendor, such as Bally’s, everyone who wants or needs a IT job and the associated kickbacks, etc. will want a slice of the pie. Just look no further than the train wreck to sign up for the Affordable Care Act, the day to day hand filed federal retirement system that is very archaic and then the Pentagon and their infamous supply inventory problems.

We always seem to be able to claim we cannot due anything about it and that is what the wealthy and special interests and lobbyists want. How about we mandate registering voters and giving election day as a holiday?

We have to register young men to die in the defense of democracy & freedom if the draft were to be reinstated why not mandatory voter registration?

]]> By: Jan https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98927 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 01:19:46 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98927 Sorry to change the subject but I don’t know how to start the conversation any other way.

Why does the Mayor continue to buy art from out of state artists? Like what they just did at the airport – bought from some guy in VERMONT?.

Guess Idaho does not have a single artist that makes the grade.

EDITOR NOTE–Probably can’t blame Team Dave on this one. If true, it was probably a “committee” decision. We have been critical in the past. Kinda flies in the face of the “10% bonus for local bidders” ordinance.

]]> By: Dave Kangas https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98926 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:50:34 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98926 Reality is that this not only a local issue but a state issue as well. Look at how many state senators and representatives run unopposed year after year.
At the same time look at the legislations that come out year after year. One has to wonder how those candidates are actually listening and representing Idahoans vs special interests and National GOP mandates.

]]> By: slfisher https://boiseguardian.com/2015/02/04/23-of-boise-council-appointed-prior-to-election/#comment-98925 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:12:44 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11573#comment-98925 What do you suggest doing differently?

EDITOR NOTE–Good point. Each local election we try to highlight how few people actually vote vs the number of potential voters. Sort of makes a mockery of our “warriors” serving in Afghanistan and Iraq to “protect freedom and democracy.” Perhaps we just want the RIGHT to vote, but don’t necessarily wish to exercise it.

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