Didn’t she move to Utah? Is she qualified to run?

EDITOR NOTE– We checked with Ted Cruz and he said she may not be “qualified,” but if she lives on AMBUSH AVE. it is a “settled matter.”

Hilarious story…
Forget about the threat of One World Government, we are getting One City Government.
And we will call it… Bieteropolis!

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

She has no shame, no integrity, no credibility, no expertise, no qualifications to represent the best interests of Ada Co. She’s been all over the map as a politician – D then R when it suited her, and soundly rejected by voters a couple of times. (And, County workers shudder at the prospect.)

Well, at least it won’t be a boring race.

The last I checked it took at least two Commishes to approve any warrant or expenditure. Why do Tillman, Bisterfelt and Yzaguirre get a pass on the Dynamis deal?

Why? Because it is so much easier to single out the ovary club for perceived bad decision making. Nothing happens inside of the Ada County Commissioners’ office in a vacuum.
Selective memory seems to be endemic among the current crop of Commishes. “Believe it or not” history is written by those with the most published sound bites these days.

IMO, there is currently so much spin associated with the Commishes that the entire building has now begun rotating around them. What chance does the average voter have of deciding who is to be believed?

Welcome to voter apathy and decisions made by those few who bother to get out and vote!

Allowing anyone to preside over a quarter billion dollars worth of public funds each year simply because they survive election year politics is not the best way to select our civic leaders. As of late, this process has not garnered the caliber of talent we need to deal with the plethora of issues which the BOCC oversees each year.

I don’t know how much we need to pay for Commissioner salaries to attract just the right mix of candidates with appropriate job skill sets (and a willingness to serve the public for less than they are worth), but if the costs of just the outside counsel attorney fees for cleaning up the messes caused by the current crop of commissioners were to be considered as an avoidable expense for the future, we would be money ahead to offer top executive value compensation.

Remember! Regardless of who eventually wins the election cycle beauty contest, none of those elected can ever really be held accountable for their actions except at election time.

The fact remains that public service can be a veritable mine field of faux pas from which no good deed goes unpunished. Only those with Teflon trousers and panty hose will survive the mudslinging. All to often the facts offered as truth “after the fact” become the first casualties to be buried and lost in the cacophony of voices which regardless of veracity cannot be sorted out by the casual voter. Timing is everything in politics.

I can only wait and see what timely revelations will be offered this year to tip the playing field in one direction or another.

EDITOR NOTE–There are options! They all start here: http://legislature.idaho.gov/idstat/Title31/T31CH50.htm
The options can be found in Idaho Code Chapter 52 through 58. Also, Bisterfeldt came along AFTER Dynamis.

Be still my heart, localization of the insanity being undergone at the National level, We have arrived.

Aggrieved–“Allowing anyone to preside over a quarter billion dollars worth of public funds each year simply because they survive election year politics is not the best way to select our civic leaders.” This is the way we elect ALL our leaders at all levels. You are correct, however, in this instance. The BOCC is a collection of overpaid micromanagers who do a lousy job. And The Guardian is right by referencing the state constitution. It can be changed.

That (my previous comment) said, with the Republicans’ love affair with the likes of The Donald, The Sharon—who manifests some of the same megalomaniacal qualities—could be a shoe-in. In this election cycle, all things are possible.

EDITOR NOTE–Not to worry. TJ has a really well oiled cyber machine and Case has a powerful incumbent backing. Also, Tibbs turned down the “nomination” when Team Dave tried to make him their “Boise guy” on the BOCC.

The people will elect who their TV and the Idaho Mistakesman tell them to elect. (Lapdog corporate media owned by the rich few who call the shots) Who ever the media deems ‘moderate’, ‘electable’, ‘level-headed’ and gets lots of airtime will be crowned our new batch of Lords and Ladies. …and the people will get screwed, again.

In all fairness to the Commishes both past and present, they didn’t write the Dynamis contract. The contract itself was so poorly worded that it left the door open for differing interpretations regarding the intent of the parties. As a result of these inherent ambiguities, the perceived cost to pursue a judicial decision to clarify the rights and responsibilities of the parties was seen as too great a risk versus any reward possible.

Like any commission formed from the rank and file of everyday people, the BOCC relied on their counsel to protect taxpayer’s dollars by writing an iron clad contract. Unfortunately, the Dynamis contract was not peer reviewed with an jaundiced eye towards the “what if a worst case scenario occurs”. In hindsight, $2 million should have dictated at least an ounce of prevention (review) instead of the 2 million reasons to engage in finger pointing and CYA after the fact.

Being the political animals they aspire to be, I suspect the cost excuse for not pursuing bad Dynamis’ money wasn’t the real reason the BOCC dropped the Dynamis matter. Political footballs are best dealt with by “calling the game” regardless of the air pressure between the ears of the Commishes. “Calling the game” eliminated the vast majority of the possibility that this mess would continually be rearing its ugly head in the media going forward.

Did the strategy work? To the largest degree…yes. But only until those who were shackled with the blame reappear and bring the matter back into the public spotlight once again.

Besides, the interim loan from the County’s own investment account can always be slipped into the “B” budget for the next year under some innocuous heading and no one would be the was the wiser. Or maybe the 2 million was simply transferred from the Commishes “bad decisions” slush fund. Either way the Dynamis Dollars “only” wasted less than 1% of the annual County budget.

It never ceases to amaze me that outside counsel with a broader opinion base is not brought in by the BOCC until it comes time to for damage control.

Two examples of this is the fact is that the fallout from Dynamis continues in the form of a complaint from Hidden Hollow Energy. The costs of defense continues to rob taxpayers to defend against HHE’s claims of breach etc. with no end in sight?

Add in just a touch of true hubris and political “pay-back” and you have the wrongful dismissal suit of Rich Wright. (Courtesy of the first official act of Mssrs. Case and Tibbs after their canonization in 2013). The Supreme Court will rule on the Wright case someday and you can bet your bottom taxpayer dollar that the cost to settle or fight will be laid at the feet of all of us to pay…again.

Perhaps this can all be explained by the axiom that the “Collective intelligence of any group decision is inversely proportional to the number of members in the group”.

Eagle Writer,

You must have missed Trump being ridiculed and dismissed at every turn, but somehow creating so much populist support, by speaking clearly, that he has currently overcome the corporate media onslaught. The normal “snake in the grass” political double-speak isn’t very popular this year.

You’ve got it half right. We do get the person with the most support; corporate media support, which “manufactures” the support of the brainwashed citizens, and support of the rich folks who throw ‘campaign parties’ where the big checks flow like water.