The same ballot in Nampa.

Increase taxes for the school district, which cannot account for them anyway.

Vote the developer back into his appointed position.

Vote for the next two clueless incumbents or vote for new blood.

Same old mayor with bad policies and poor decision making skills. Very nice of him to put the Urban renewal under his office?!?

Stuck in Boise with the same incumbents. 🙁 So much for term limits.

Now to figure out how to pay for increased property taxes and health insurance which was canceled when ACA took effect and then the new policy had premiums of twice the price. Time to start working multiple jobs I suppose.

TF Boy is on the right track.

I don’t agree with some of the P&Z decisions made in Boise by those incumbents, but, compared to the opposition candidates, I’ll stick with what we got.

If it ain’t broke……..

I don’t care if they want some condos downtown, but a 300 unit apartment complex on Parkcenter. That’s just appallingly bad judgement. That land should have been developed as single family homes.

And then there is the problem of the number and size of parking spaces at Whole Foods and Trader Joes and then there are those kinda ugly new apartments off Capitol near BSU.

I’m running out of stuff to complain about so I’m glad the incumbents won.

Indulge some rough generalizations here:

About 15% of Boise voted yesterday, and let’s say roughly 66% of those favored incumbents and the levy. That would mean about 9% of Boise voted for incumbents and the levy.

To draw the conclusion such performance is an endorsement of incumbents is a stretch and relies upon the belief that the 85% of Boise that did not vote, would have voted in the same manner as the 15% that did.

In fact one could argue that if 9% voted for incumbents, then the remaining 91% were so apathetic they did not vote, or were against. In my book a 91% apathy or contrarian vote toward the City is not a success.

Rather than consider the election a victory for incumbents, I would hope they would wonder why 91% of Boise didn’t care to vote or voted against them.

I am sure in some incumbents mind someone who does not vote is content with the direction of the city. Maybe……

JJ, based on statistical samples the 9% represents the whole population +/- some minor amount %- certainly not enough of a variable to conclude anything other than the outcome.

I find it more interesting the comparison of the Bieter vote vs the other city races.
The Open Space Levy got a total of 32,957 votes. The yes vote count of the levy was 24,516
Bieter only got 22,722 votes.

So almost 2,000 pro-tax people actually didn’t vote for Bieter despite the fact the levy was his baby. Or, 7% of the people voting for the Levy also voted against Bieter.

There were 4,409 more votes in the mayor contest than the next closest (by # of votes cast) council contest.

If you look at the anti-incumbent voters as a group you get-

Peavey-derr 8,716 + Holden 1,489 = 10,205
Hawes – 9,825
Martinez -8,583
Against levy -8,441
So more people voted against Bieter than those voting against the other “liberal” choices.

If you look at the 3 non-mayor contests there was about 9,000 voters against the incumbents – yet in the mayor’s race there was 10,205.

My conclusion- there are more Anti-Bieter people than their are “anti-liberal” people.

“Well Mayor, you can’t please everyone.”

J Smith, I would like to see your evidence that “it’s all a fraud.”

I vote in Eagle and saw no fraud in the campaigns nor in the election. And I voted for good people working to make our community better. I actually think those who lost were also good people working for the same.

I am unaware of any “cheap whore politicians” who were in the race, perhaps you can point them out.

BTW, who are the billionaire “owners” who corrupted the Boise election?

E.W. – The first step in learning what is really going on is to turn off your TV and radio, and close that newspaper.
90% of all media is controlled by just 6 corporations that are interrelated, so most everything you hear is carefully crafted nonsense.
The Internet is the last basin of truth, so use it while you can. Matt Drudge recently ended his blog because he said the Oligarchs are soon going to be shuttering the alternative media. Sadly, the Boise Gaurdian will likely be forced into retirement as well.

Here are two great articles that say most of what needs saying on the topic of political corruption by the Oligarchs.

Politicians and the Manipulated Crowd
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-13/politicians-manipulated-crowd

What makes the Mainstream Media Mainstream
http://chomsky.info/199710__/

E.W. – “…The more we become a part of the crowd, the more dependent we become on authority. And the more dependent we become, the more defensive we are when presented with new information contrary to “conventional wisdom.” Simply stated, the crowd syndrome inoculates us against reality…”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-13/politicians-manipulated-crowd

Sorry my friend, but it appears you are here for the full hour of argument. I just don’t have time for arguing.

Basin was meant to be bastion in my last comment.

I hadn’t heard of Murdoch buying N.G.
He will probably slowly morph it into the EXOTIC ANIMAL HUNTING NETWORK, linked into the Martha Stewart line of animal print fabrics, and the Stone Age Aboriginal Circus show in Las Vegas.