PRINCIPLE ABOVE PARTY – An endangered species

A HERO – Mitt Romney

It is not often we see it in politics, right?
An elected official doing the right thing despite the personal outcome to that politician.
Doing the right thing.
Not what the lobbyists want to benefit the big corporations; not what the extreme base voters want for individual benefit; not what the campaign donors want in return for their money; not the easy vote; but doing the right thing- following the truth, obey an oath, being thoughtful.

You forgot TINY HOUSES.

TINY HOUSE- A place where a homeless person can finally climb out of one low income category, and into a new one. Currently, radical enviros want almost all of us to surrender out current homes and downsize into a TINY HOUSE, in order to restore Greta Thunberg’s childhood that we all stole from her.

CONSULTANT- A specially selected mouthpiece that always justifies everything about your hidden agenda with academically approved semantics.

SURVEY- A specially worded poll, that is targeted in a venue that almost guarantees the outcome you desire (e.g. any poll conducted in downtown Boise to ask about the need for improved mass transit).

POLL- See above.

INCREASED DENSITY- The special goal of this State’s minority Party to increase its voter base…AKA, importing people that flee Californication, just to vote for the same people to repeat the cycle once again, because THIS TIME, it will be different.

LISTENING- That thing you pretend to do while telling yourself that you don’t have to oblige that person at call, cuz your 5 year plan has already been written and approved by the Politburo in Portlandia.

MASS TRANSIT- The ONLY form of transportation that will be available to you once your personal vehicle has been taken away in that mandated buyback program, in order to offset your carbon sinning ways.

URBAN RENEWAL- That new improvement that they created because your old property didn’t look “woke” enough, and now they can tax it for more.

CLAWBACK- Alot like “buyback” but without the insulting pittance amount they pay you for it with.

GREEN CERTIFIED- It means Greta Thunberg likes it.

CONNECTIVITY- It means that you can walk everywhere when your personal vehicle has been confiscated.

FIRST RESPONDER- The only person that Legacy Media and/or Government recognizes as the legitimate authority on scene. “Hey, you should have called 911 instead of using your own ability to respond to that emergency outside of the political narrative we want to exploit for political gain.”

PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP- I think Mussolini called this…Fascism!

ROUNDABOUT- It’s supposed to be a type of traffic concept, but is really the preferred method that Team Dave has appropriated funds during his past administration.

TAX INCREMENT FINANCING OR TIF-

A clever way to extract favors from your favorite developers, who promise to develop “blighted” zones, that they were going to develop anyway. Or…”Capturing the full tax increment and directing it to repay the development bonds ignores the fact that the incremental increase in property value likely requires an increase in the provision of public services, which will now have to be funded from elsewhere (often from subsidies from less economically thriving areas). For example, the use of tax increment financing to create a large residential development means that public services from schools to public safety will need to be expanded, yet if the full tax increment is captured to repay the development bonds, other money will have to be used.”

Or…a TIF is that thing your city government will throw when it can’t get it’s way.

A use of the fairgrounds should not by definition include the option to sell it off and move it. What is the price for that land? Let the taxpayers speak for this enterprise property. We don’t need more chain deli’s and coffee shops. Nor condos.

The property borders Boise and Garden City. So whose property is it? Whose property rights rule?

The Idaho Legislature repealed it.
The veto override was led by Bruce Newcomb(R), House Speaker with the special professional skills of a farmer/rancher from Burley (District 27), he was quoted as saying, “it [term limits] was not in the public interest.”
He said the Citizens Initiative was all due to OUTSIDE money- there’s another one for the list above– Not out-of-state voters, but out-of-state money. He fed at the trough for 20 years in the legislature; so of course he opposed limits. Can you say PERSI with an “e”? SMH.
To be more accurate over 2/3 of the legislators said thumbs-down to term limits.
And current Governor Little recently was quoted to say Newcomb “was always about doing the right thing.”
And now the current Speaker Bedke (also Dist 27), reping the same people and made of the same cloth including his cow experience. So our Legislature is being controlled by one group in the Magic Valley – opposed to limits .
—There you have it. THAT “public private partnership’ is neck deep in self-preservation and sustainability.

Also THE SAME group currently wanting to limit your ability to pass fture Citizen Initiatives. go figure. 🙁

So? Want to grab your musket and meet on the steps tomorrow morning?

A New Library – code for a Civic Center for Education and Culture (CCEC), as the city realized many citizens would not buy into a CCEC, especially with a book robot.

No New Taxes – to describe the mega-library project, because the City had already stashed away $50 milllion in excess tax collected, which they are still sitting on.

Lease Financing – a vague term for the average citizen, that Boise used to disguise a way to “work-around” the constitutional limitation on debt, and a clever tool cooked up by Wall Street.

Listening & Community Engagement – to make the citizens feel good, think their concerns matter, when the decisions have already been made.

I see the local elected officials are going to shamelessly take another 30% year over year tax property increase. Then they’ll set the budget to absorb every penny. Then they’ll post public information to make it look like they have a shortfall. Many of them are supposed republicans. Admitted democrats and liberals would be much worse.

Apparently apathy is implied consent. We need to elect financially competent, honest, conservatives. And we need to flush them out before it becomes a career for them. I agree term limits is the only way to do this.

PROPERTY RIGHTS, as it is typically used, means public subsidy to private development.