Please create your own professional survey/q and a/comment page and distribute it widely. Especially the professional. (Get a pro to write it. Will be telling.)

Why this, but why not this other?
How come this, but why not that?
Keep warehouse lease – kill Cabin.
Outdoor balcony – where did you park.
Clean the windows – clean the grounds – and where did you park.
Staff the project – millions
Professional management –
on and on

Thanks, Dave Frazier, for this excellent opinion piece, which represents the Guardian at its finest.
I hope you’ll share more about such things as the city contracts that you say Mayor Bieter funnels toward his supporters.
In 2019, Bieter runs for his fourth term (which seems too many for anyone). In any case, this election, which also includes three seats for the city council, seems a last chance to keep Boise unique.
Good people can differ, but I hope the Guardian continues to issue such important pieces to provide information we need to be better voters — and that it gets in return lots of support from Boiseans.

At city hall there is no such thing as “wrong”. Whatever they want to do is by their definition “right”.

On many occasions all the members of our city government have indicated that they are much smarter than the voters and that they were elected to do whatever they want – and that they do not need to ask the voters anything or listen o them BECAUSE they were elected.

So have they lost their sense of right and wrong? No, because they never had a sense of right in the first place.

Dave Frazier for Mayor

EDITOR NOTE–“I am not a candidate and if elected will not serve…” The GUARDIAN would lose whatever oversight it may have if I ever entered politics. Thanks for the vote.

The real question that must be asked is why a new state-of-the-art library (or LIBRARY!) is even being considered? With the amazing evolution of social media and the Internet, more and more information is now available at our fingertips with an easy slide of the finger or click of a mouse. Who knows if libraries will even exist in their current form decades from now?

Don’t think this is possible? Just ask Blockbuster Video how they fared after the evolution of online movie streaming.

As long as Little Seattle (north / east end) outvotes the rest of you by a wide margin, you get what you deserve. And it’s a bit unfair to ask Dave to run or do additional research that could be done by others.

It’s all in how you view right vs. wrong, and socialist are always right.

About 30% of the nation has a religious loyalty to socialism and therefore views higher taxes and bigger government as progress. They foster the utopian goal of one big government controlling every detail. No free press. No free markets. No corporate or private business whatsoever. No freedom. No religion. They want two social classes, with 99.9% in servitude to the royalty. They are basically against everything our founding fathers won for us. They have palpable contempt for the founding documents and constitution (except when the cops find their drug stash).

Socialism is a religion. Nothing has to make sense. Faith is all that’s needed. When pressed for details they become angry and irrational. They have erroneous explanations for why socialism has always failed, with total faith it will succeed next time. They are the definition of crazy.

On the other hand the remaining 70% could stop this, but don’t. This is really the big mystery here. I think it’s really the behavior to be alarmed about. The socialist can be explained as religious like zealots. However, I cannot easily explain why the other 70% apathetically watches their country be destroyed while having the power to stop it. If one looks at the destruction of all the great societies in history, most were destroyed from within by a fairly small group of crazy fanatics while the majority sat idle.

Don’t be fooled by the choreographed Dem vs. Rep production they present on TV each day. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are socialists too. We have a huge problem to resolve which no society has ever resolved ever before.

Question of the day. How come a congressman goes to Washington flat broke but returns a few years later a multimillionaire? How is this possible? Same is happening at the state and local levels too. Are you a radio host? Why don’t you ask this of each politico you interview?

I agree with Mike – city hall does not know what wrong is.

Great post. The library serves as an ersatz day shelter for a LOT of Boise homeless, which is why I chuckle when people pay the $$$ for a condo colored baby poop brown (coughaftoncough) on River Street aka the homeless highway- so I guess this is Mayor Bieter’s way of helping the local homeless by greenlighting this new and improved structure?

Such good comments here — and it seems if just these people voted in the next local election of 2019, we could topple the political machine at city hall. Perhaps a slight exaggeration, but the possibility of ousting the current regime may not be as daunting as it seems.
As a North Ender myself (and glad to be one), I’m hoping that people outside of my neighborhood and the inner core of the city will begin to take their rightful place as moderating influences in Boise. I’m hoping that even within the North End, and across all other neighborhoods, people are getting tired of being pushed around by a small group of radical progressive elitist Democrats (who for all of their political correctness and virtue signaling, don’t seem to mind living like rich Republicans).
We do need to start getting beyond party politics and conventional ideologies to elect new people of integrity. I’m praying that a few moderates of common sense and common decency will emerge from the regular residents of Boise to seek local offices — and that the rest of us will support those who are worthy alternatives to our current disappointments.
P.S. If there are any good researchers and investigators out there, perhaps Dave would be glad to have some help at the Guardian. I would be grateful for all those who step up to keep Boise unique. Let’s all do whatever we can, while encouraging others of good will who contribute to the cause of Good Growth in our hometown.