Comments on: Power To The People! https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/ A different slant on the news. Sun, 30 Dec 2018 01:51:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Forced Air https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105837 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 01:51:29 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105837 Sounds good and all, but I fear that too many people are easily duped by fancy promotions by the backers of these legacy operations. I will certainly recommend NO on either a overpriced library and the misplaced stadium. This will at least serve as a proverbial mirror to see if the public has a heartbeat about this stuff. I was heartened to see the horse track scrapped by voters.

The Medicaid scam played on legit fears that always surround health care issues. Without a real clear debate with full facts discussed on HC stuff, we are doomed to fail to find a solution that really works.

Let’s hope Boiseans are smart enough to see through the library and stadium dog and pony show.

]]> By: Take a look https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105836 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 01:43:40 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105836 Drive down Sawyer in Garden City. Stop at the stop sign where Alworth Street intersects and look ahead of you. It may not be in the city of Boise. But, wow, what a beautiful setting for a stadium.

]]> By: Easterner https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105825 Wed, 26 Dec 2018 17:30:06 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105825 Ask permission to spend our money? They already did- and most people don’t care enough to engage.

“to seek permission before they build high ticket items like a library or ball park.”

So, the same people would INSIST we make the President get permission from the people, in the ballot box, to build A WALL? And we already did that. The popular vote of November 2016, did NOT say, “yes”. So that answer is: “the people” said, “No wall, and “no” to all that other gibberish”. But of course, it doesn’t work that way- in Boise or in D.C.

But then, maybe such an election, to seek permission to build a wall on our border, should be in Mexico since someone said Mexico would pay for it? HA!

]]> By: Diane C Stearns https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105824 Tue, 25 Dec 2018 01:35:24 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105824 I signed the documents and I so hope our politicians will hear me and all the other Boise citizens who want to be included in the decision making process.

Our taxes are used for these various projects, so our opinions should be important — and definitely not ignored…

]]> By: E.B. Schofield https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105823 Mon, 24 Dec 2018 02:46:10 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105823 Upon approval of the documents submitted, the next step will require collecting a minimum of 5,000 valid signatures from registered Boise voters – as these two projects are Boise taxpayer projects, and thus will only be on the ballot in Boise (not Ada County). If the signature requirement is met, the choice to vote would be on the ballot in November. If this receives the votes needed, then the actual voting on the two projects would then be placed on the ballot in the spring of 2020.

Of course, the City Council can always choose to place these two major financial commitment projects up for citizen vote this coming spring 2019. If they heard this loud and clear from the public, with emails and letters from those concerned about the impact these projects will make on the budget, property taxes, ability to complete unfinished parks, etc., maybe they will reverse course and allow the most meaningful form of public participation – by voting.

]]> By: Larry Rincover https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105817 Sun, 23 Dec 2018 20:18:10 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105817 Great idea and timely. I look forward to more information and offer any assistance that’s needed.

L. Rincover

]]> By: Jeanine Brandeis https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105816 Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:53:17 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105816 Great idea. How do we get involved in making this happen?

]]> By: flyhead https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105811 Sat, 22 Dec 2018 18:38:50 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105811 The big secret here is the elected deciders aren’t about to let people vote on this stuff. They prefer the “magic of urban renewal” to fund this expensive boondoggle. The sad part of all this is people still think urban renewal is “free money” from the federal govt. It isn’t and is nothing more than a huge property tax shift costing everyone inside and outside the boundaries of the UR District more money.

]]> By: NANCY J VAN ALLEN https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105810 Sat, 22 Dec 2018 18:25:48 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105810 THIS BUILDING WITHOUT THE PUBLICS KNOWLEDGE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME UNDER THIS MAYOR IN HIS EFFORT TO DO WHAT HE WANTS IN MANY AREAS OF THE CITY. HOW DID THIS GET SO FAR AFIELD? THE TAX PAYERS HAVE TO GET INVOLVE BEFORE THIS CONTROLLING BEHAVIOR STARTS TO HURT PEOPLE.

]]> By: Another phony solution for a phony “democracy” https://boiseguardian.com/2018/12/21/power-to-the-people-3/#comment-105809 Sat, 22 Dec 2018 18:09:08 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15417#comment-105809 The corporations that want these big projects will simply pay for flashy TV and newspaper ads extolling the wonderful virtues of these projects and all the drooling, slack jawed voters are brainwashed into supporting them.

Voting will never again be an effective tool for Citizen control of the government as long as the corporations are considered “persons” and allowed to influence elections with $$$$.

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