Tuesday, Let’s Change Boise City Government
Posted by Adam Graham in : Idaho Conservative, TheI received the following communication from Boise City Council Candidate Lucas Baumbach:
Adam, I want to tell conservatives that the local media, even radio, has downplayed voter turnout this year, but our people should take heart! Local elections have never accrued so much conservative involvement so early. It is important that our base not buy into anything but determination to win. Let’s be resolved to give Boise a facelift, now. This race is urgent! Let’s get out the vote! All we need to win is to turn out our voters!I’d also like our base to know that the North End Debate turned out a primarily conservative crowd. I know this because I made a point of meeting everyone before and after the debate. Enthusiasm for plain-dealers and conservatives was very high. When the North End is turning out conservatives, the wind is at our backs. Let’s roll.
Indeed, and talk of low voter turnout should spur the concerned citizen and the conservative to engage in this election and show up to vote. After all, if there’s a small turnout, this means your informed vote matters so much more. I plan to go and vote early Monday, and would urge everyone who cares about the future of the city of Boise to show up and to cast their votes for Dan Dunham, Dave Litster, and Lucas Baumbach.
I make no secret that I’m a partisan for the conservative cause: the sanctity of human life, the second Amendment, and the free market system in education, retirement, and every other area. However, this election has little to do with these issues.
These issues should have no real part in the political debate in a city like Boise, where functions such as education are not even part of the equation. Rather, the city has very simple jobs: keep our cities safe and provide a few basic services.
There is a reason city elections are non-partisan: there are no Republican potholes or Democratic potholes, there are no Republican crime victims or Democratic crime victims, only potholes and crime victims. It ought to be the one level of government where we ought to be able to put our differences aside.
The Bieter Administration has from its very first month in power, undermined this and has to this day tried to make city government a partisan instrument for its own means. Its attempt to take over the County from Boise City Hall failed last year in its inability to get its favored candidates for commissioner elect. But it’s six year unceasingly arrogant record of trying to ride roughshod over other governments and its own people from the Ten Commandments controversey to the Mayor’s absurd $60 million toy choo choo has got to be answered.
It is a fearful thing for a city to fall into the hands of a political machine from Tamany Hall to the unbreakable corruption of the Daley Machine in Chicago, it has wrought misery on citizens across the country. Its the model that Dave Bieter is trying to bring to Boise.
For my part I say enough.
Enough of partisan city government.
Enough of arrogant city government.
Enough of grandiose city government that wants to build a trolley while most of Boise’s streets lack decent sidewalks.
Its time to restore common sense to city government and to send a loud message to Team Dave that we want no part in a machine state. To restore balance, common sense, and a spirit of public service to our city’s government, I encourage voters to reject the status quo, reject the Idaho Statesman, and cast their vote for Baumbach, Dunham, and Litster.
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