Comments on: Firefighters Pay Bieter More Than Peavey-Derr’s Entire Fund Raising

By: Easterner

Easterner — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:19:04 +0000

Who they get it from and WHERE they spend it is always interesting.

for example, McClean sent some dough ($2,100) to a person in New Hampshire – for broadcast advertising – The named recipient, Denis Landis, is well listed as “The Cook’s Cook”. What?

BUY LOCAL?

It will be a good story AFTER the elections to see how much money is left in the coffers.

By: chicago sam

chicago sam — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:09:44 +0000

With refferance to firefighters they have always been active and very generous contributors to the candidates of their choice. Not surprising that firefighters from other jurisdictions contribute to Boise campaigns as other than the incestuous mess of lawyers and bank executives in Boise they have the best paying jobs and work hours of anyone in the city. Other towns always point to Boise at contract time.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:50:37 +0000

Calling campaign contributions “pay” is misleading and snarky. But, I’m all in favor of snarky.

“Corporate lapdog” is a good description of Bieter, but Peavy-Derr would be even more so. You can’t be pro-business and pro-worker. You guys keep calling Bieter a liberal. He’s not.

By: DO

DO — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:12:52 +0000

They say honesty is the best policy, but one has to remember that, by default, dishonesty is the second best policy.

To ask Mayor Dave to return the monies from Spokane, Blackfoot, Middleton, Chubbuck, Ketchum, Nampa, and Pocatello would make him honest and he is not about to do that as that would mean he could not defraud the taxpayers for the sake of his developer buddies.

Well at least you don’t have any developers on the city council like Nampa does.

Just remember growth for the sake of growth is the specialty of the cancer cell.

By: Porcupine

Porcupine — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:49:13 +0000

When you look at Judy’s reports you have a different group of Lawyers and developers. But she just hasn’t raised as much money…..Beiter got to his group 1st.

http://cityclerk.cityofboise.org/media/311115/peaveyderr7daypregeneral.pdf

I honestly thought after her being in politics for her whole life she would have raised more money than she has.

In the words of Hillary Clinton…. what difference does this election make?

By: erico49

erico49 — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 14:16:51 +0000

Is Peavey-Derr likely to try to bust the union? Maybe that is the worry. As an establishment politician, I can’t imagine she would though (not that it doesn’t need to be done).

By: john

john — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 03:02:46 +0000

It’s not hard to understand. It’s hard to justify.

By: Grumpy ole Guy

Grumpy ole Guy — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 02:31:14 +0000

I don’t think that Peavy-Durr could have spent “only” $15,000.00 and paid for the 7 robo calls we’ve had, plus all of the social media ads, plus all the yard signs. Are super-pacts at work here?

EDITOR NOTE–Just going by the public records.

By: J Smith

J Smith — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 02:06:51 +0000

Behold the baby kissing, gold shovel wielding, library conjuring, park constructing, skyscraper erecting, almighty corporate lapdog and lifer incumbent… Dave Bieter!

When a guy stays in politics longer than a few years, he slowly turns into a whore for the special interests. They don’t pony up all that cash just cause he’s a swell guy.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 01:29:53 +0000

Editor, will they ever let you put your warning sign up down at the river? How many people would have benefited by now?

Full-time fire departments with a part-time demand? Five guys with a big red truck and a lawnmower/rake/shovel/etc!

Summer fire season? Sure they’re needed. So do what for-profit companies do and flex the force up and down as the fire risk changes.

Reading some books by Ben Carson (or his ghost writers) about entrenched politicos being the ruin of America. Hope he’s for real.