The new mayor of Boise is a left wing wack job. If she gets what she wants, Boise will become another San Francisco. Boise's mayoral elections are nonpartisan. The incumbent had been there for 4 terms but he was heavily pushing to spend 100 mill to build a new library. She appears to have defeated him soundly based on that.
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In the old days the saying was, "Move West Young Man", now it's, "Move East California Liberal"!!! Or, actually move to Boise, one of the fastest growing cities in the west!

Dick

I suppose that she is subject to recall, if she gets too out of hand.

I would also guess that she has to get funding through the City Council for any of her pet projects. Other than possibly directing the PD to refuse cooperation with INS.

It's called demographics. The electorate slowly changes as people age and die off. People move in or out. Thousands of young people reach voting age every year. Meanwhile; most of the current electorate is telling themselves that "We'll never do that", and "It can't happen here!"....... Until one day they discover that they are outvoted. Already seen it happen in NY state, ( Not NYC), over the last 30-40-50 years.

Mayor Bieter was a decent guy for a while but IMO he was finally bought lock, stock and barrel by California developers. The downtown area is a forest of cranes as high rise buildings go up everywhere, That boondoggle of a library finally did him in.

Interesting how money works. I-84 exit 64 east of Boise is at Kuna-Mora road, a two lane highway that skirts south and west of Boise. It's still in the middle of nowhere, or as much of nowhere as you will still find close to Boise. But right now there is nothing there but cow pastures.

So - they started improving that freeway exit, big construction project to widen it or whatever they're doing. Hmmm, I wonder why? (he said innocently). Maybe, just maybe, it's because some effing developer or consortium of same influenced the state highway department to improve that beforehand so they could start putting subdivisions there. Most of the farmlands west of Boise have long since been turned into housing tracts so they're looking east.

Slick trick - get the citizens of Idaho, and the rest of the country since it's an interstate highway, to pay for improvements that increase the value of the land and open it up to development. It would be interesting to see if land around there changed hands anytime recently, as in before any plans for improvement were announced, and if any state politicians might be on the board of some land holding company(s) that may have bought it? Naaaahhh, that would never happen....


In other news, a couple weeks ago I was in the check out line at WinCo and an older guy (68 as he loudly told everyone) behind me was giving a lot of grief to a woman behind him for not wearing a mask. She was just minding her own business but he was ranting on and on about how it's not for you but to protect everybody else around you, then muttering stuff about "damn Republicans". I've seen the fleece vest wearing North End Democrats milling about hip coffee houses but this was the first time I'd ever seen an old liberal in person. He had that distinctive effete tone of voice that comes from decades of having dicks banging into the back of his throat...

Ada County (Boise) voted Dem in the 2018 gubernatorial election 92K GOP, 94K Dem, Boise having a libatard mayor is no surprise

But wait I was ALWAYS told this could NEVER happen in Idaho.

Before that it was this could NEVER happen in Colorado, then NEVER in Nevada. hell I remember all the way back to this could NEVER happen in Washington and Oregon.

As I've said for over 35 years "Coming Soon To A State Near You" That was back when Kommieefornia had a Repuke Governor.

and what's the common denominator in all those places?
Caliotoian invasion

Conservative people from caliotoe bringing their liberal ideals.." we did it this way in CA?

Yeah keep living that illusion.

Wrong..... people flocked here in the 70s and 80s from out of state.
If anything its people from other states that made this place the way it is.......

Truth hurts sometimes doesn't it

Flocked there?
Like your gooberner?

laffin at the absurdity

This summer i suspect the color of boundary county will take on a purple hue! Can't hardly find any in the construction bidness that aint working.
I hear outer mongolia is still nice.

In central Ohio, we call the "The Les Wexner Effect".

Idaho had democratic governors from 1970 to 1990. Places like Idaho Falls with lots of coastal immigrants and union influence have historically leaned democrat.

The 70s and 80s is when the displaced hordes of Californians started moving into this valley and totally fugging it up. I have been living beside them for fifty years.

People who tell me today, I remember when we came over the hill on I-80 (it was in those days) into Boise. We looked around and said "Wow, this is what Simi Valley looked like thirty, forty years ago".

wasn't defeated because of no library
defeated because of grand theft
he did promise to be conservative and not spend it all on himself
he thinks we should all just get along

And do not forget our most famous D. US Senator. There was even talk of a Presidential Campaign.

In all honesty, a lot of people have flocked into Cali, from across their SOUTHERN border. And at an open invitation from the state.

Bieter's father, Pat Bieter, was my math teacher and track coach in high school back in the early 60's. He was later a mayor of Boise and his son followed suit.

About that I-84 exit overhaut - my sister's BIL lives south of Nampa. He says that they've been doing some surveying and land acquisition in that area for the long range purpose of running an I-84 bypass south of Nampa to avoid Boise/Meridian/Nampa/Caldwell. If it happens, I'll never live to see it but it would be great to be able to avoid that traffic mess.

I grew up in Washington state and moved to Texas once the liberals ruined that once beautiful area. Texas is now fighting tooth and nail to maintain their culture and defend against this spreading cancer of liberalism. I hope this State can stand firm.

In addition, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean, is anti-Second Amendment. She accepted big $$$$ in her mayoral campaign from NYC mega-billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who hates the Second Amendment and honest gun owners.

McLean's political ideology mirrors Marxist Socialist ideology in its "finer points." (She has not of yet suggested gulags for her "political dissidents." Maybe in the future???)

The problem with Boise is that Boise State University is here and the "kids" are so gullible and easily manipulated by their far left Socialist professors, they vote en masse for whomever their "masters" tell them to vote.

Also, there are a lot of high tech companies here who employ "techies" who are, by and large, left wing nerds, so they too vote for the leftist politicians. Between the "kids" and the "techie nerds," they can easily sway a local election.

That's the way it is in Boise, Idaho. More's the pity.

L.W.

Non-partisan elections are just another tool / smokescreen of the leftists.

Very common here. You have to be very diligent and dig deep into their past to expose their commie roots.

They do their very best to disguise or hide it.

Yes by the millions if what we read is correct, but for the most part they are not the folks moving out of CA bringing their influences with them

Not illusion...fact

Boise was decidedly for Hillary in 2016...

keeerist, did i read 100 mil for a library? who the hell uses a library anymore. you could slap up a pole bldg for 100k and spend another few hundred on books and computers and call it good. 100 fuggen mil. ridiculous. somebodies brother in law was going to make some bank on that boondoggle.

That $100,000,000.00 library was another one of Mayor Bieter's Boondoggles. He also had come up with a boondoggle of installing rapid transit rail system in downtown Boise for about 25 blocks and I can't remember how many millions of $$$.

He liked his name on things. You know, posterity and all that good stuff.

L.W.

Idaho falls mayor had a Bernie bumper sticker on her Subaru but ran as a Republican. The libs know they need to lie and act conservative to get elected here and the people are too politically ignorant to notice.

I graduated from BSU in 2000 and the liberal professors were there at that time doing everything thing they could to indoctrinate us. I had little interest in politics before then but after seeing through their efforts I became much more politically aware and against most everything left.

Bb

Just like California. There were 2 democrats running for mayor of Boise. Truth of the matter is most of the democrat politicians are bought and paid for by various land developers and contractors. They build off the back of honest citizens, who have to carry cost road development, extension of electrical, water, and sewer. Typically that's on the back of the developer and the development carries the burden of that cost. The Boise mayor is a clueless socialist who thinks the can live and govern on other peoples money. It's pathetic. The reason I absolutely will not live in Boise proper.

I have very few regrets in life.

I was offered a very nice position in Boise 15-16 years ago. Tried to convince the wife to get on a plane and go to look. She said no way.

I think about that opportunity often and how my life may be different if we'd gone.

Sounds like maybe I'm not missing much.

What Boise needs, transportationwise, is a fast way to move north and south. They've concentrated on east and west. Eagle Rd has to be the biggest rush hour disaster I've driven on.
I left Boise in '70 and hope I never have to move back.

If there is a way to do things wrong Ada County Highway District can find it

Yep. Best to look at your own educational system and your esteemed folks who have lived there and just, well, you know, like leftist chit. They're right there amongst you.

ID suffers from the same thing that killed off my native CO and that is a huge influx of displaced idiots from CA. They leave CA for other states and then turn those states into CA.

Who knew Idaho was so full of VICTIMS?

Boise, where you can be stuck in traffic and they're baling hay along the same Freeway. (maybe it was Meridian)