Down at the Courthouse, and at City Hall – and at the Statehouse – they call it “WARM AND FUZZY financing.”

Regarding Ms. McIntyre’s alleged improprieties with taxpayer money… HEY! It happened in Las Vegas and was spoze to STAY in Las Vegas.

What was that money used for?

1) Change your party affiliation to ‘unaffiliated.’ Both main parties have utterly failed the common man and need to be deleted. Refuse to vote for any candidate belonging to either party, don’t contribute to their campaigns or vote in their primaries. A mass exodus from the party apparatus sends a message of no confidence.

2) Vote with your wallet. Shop outside of Ada County, live frugally, shop online at retailers that don’t collect sales tax and starve the beast of revenue. Consider leaving the county to an area with lower property taxes.

3) Know who in your community supports the corrupt politicians and refuse to do business with them.

4) Peacefully protest at official government meetings and outside the homes of government officials. This is your 1st amendment right and sends a very strong message.

Both of these projects raise concerns as to the role of the public in deciding questions of infrastructure spending and public borrowing, especially because these methods result in higher overall cost to taxpayers due to the high transaction costs and higher interest rates when compared with a general obligation bond.

It appears that both of these funding mechanisms are leveraging general fund revenues, which makes me wonder what the ratio of lease payments to general fund revenues will be? How do they plan to afford these dedicated payments if they also continue to raise employee wages each year through a cost of living adjustment funded by taking the annual 3% budget increase?

EDITOR NOTE–We have been told the jail funding deal is off the table and the new commishes will supposedly make the funding decision.

I do not take responsibility for the actions of GBAD before I was elected to the Board in 2013. I believe most or all of the ones cited took place prior to 2013.

In regard to the $750,000 in attorney fees, I actually voted against appealing to the Supreme Court because I felt other entities should share in the legal fees since the outcome would impact other entities in addition to GBAD. However, it should also be noted that those attorney fees were incurred ONLY because The Editor sued GBAD in the first place. Everyone, including GBAD, has the right to defend itself – and the Supreme Court confirmed that GBAD was right and The Editor was wrong. While it’s a shame that legal fees are so expensive, it was ultimately the actions of The Editor that created that expense.

EDITOR NOTE–For the record, Frazier prevailed twice in 4th District Court where judges affirmed GBAD violated the Idaho Constitution. Each time GBAD refiled, changing the finance plan, and eventually appealed to the Supreme Court.

Under the final scheme CCDC replaced the bank as a funding source and included a “walk away” clause. The plan was approved because the funding was shifted to the CCDC which has authority to sell bonds. Mr. Berch, defending the constitution is hardly worthy of your accusation that I created the expense. Had your board followed the constitution and allowed citizens to vote, you would have saved three quarters of a million dollars for the District and plenty of angst for me.

The main article stands – funding law has been twisted 180 degrees from the Idaho constitution. But that seems par for the course these days… everything has been twisted into the reverse, and those that stand up for the truth are torn down.

“War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength” – 1984