UPDATE - How can the State of Idaho approve lurking on this blog for 2 hours and 16 minutes?
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Recently KREM TV in Spokane interviewed Jim Risch about errors on a government web site dealing with stimulus money, http://www.recovery.gov.
Idaho has racked up $1.2B for 2300 jobs.
In the interview Risch chided about the errors on the web site as an example of why people don't trust government.
Risch did not mention that people do not trust Idaho state government, especially the Idaho Tax Commission.
Of course Risch can't go there because he is one of the "Boise Boys".
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Strong Arming the Public
The operation of the Idaho Tax Commission is a strong-arm approach. It could easily qualify for an overhaul because of RICO-like activities.
Is it a wonder so many members of the Idaho legislature don't file financial statements as required?
Its just another example of the insiders in bureaucracies protecting themselves at the expense of citizens.
No wonder ITC is unpopular.
Shake Down anyone?
Is it a wonder so many members of the Idaho legislature don't file financial statements as required?
Its just another example of the insiders in bureaucracies protecting themselves at the expense of citizens.
No wonder ITC is unpopular.
Shake Down anyone?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Double Standard Common
Back at the beginning of May I received a copy of the Lewiston (ID) Morning Tribune.
The editorial this Sunday was “Idaho has an Equal Pay Day, not equal pay”.
In Idaho women earn 60 cents to each $1paid to men for equal work. This practice has been illegal since Congress passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
This tells you a lot about Idaho even though the state legislature passed a bill establishing April 28 as Equal Pay Day in the Gem State.
This isn’t the only issue in Idaho that is kept under wraps.
Another issue, just one of many is the $80 thousand fine Butch Otter paid for violating environmental laws on his property. He originally faced a $300 thousand fine but somehow was able to while it down. It still failed to have him recover damage wetlands.
Butch must drive a mean bulldozer, cowboy hat and all.
Then there is the sneaky way people like Larry Wasden fail to hold lawyers in his and the state’s employ accountable for evidence rules. He’s let these people ride ruff shod over people, especially women, with protective orders. Seems he too forgets that Idaho has reciprocal agreements with other states. And he probably forgets that if a judge seals documents it means that the information is not to be posted on the tax commission web site.
Ask Linda Pike about that one. Maybe ask the ID Bar Association too who let her get a free pass.
Too bad you won’t hear the truth from tax commissioners either. These Boise “insiders” seem to think it is okay to violate their own rules and cause grievous harm to many.
Did they forget that one of their rules is privacy and another is that if you are not required to file with the IRS you aren’t required to file with the ID tax commission either?
There are so many rules they ignore, glibly too, with no conscious for their wrong doing and errors of omission.
Malfeasance it seems to me, eh Larry?
And mad scrambling for CYA activity everywhere is just amazing.
Still a daily happnin’ thing after all these years.
The editorial this Sunday was “Idaho has an Equal Pay Day, not equal pay”.
In Idaho women earn 60 cents to each $1paid to men for equal work. This practice has been illegal since Congress passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
This tells you a lot about Idaho even though the state legislature passed a bill establishing April 28 as Equal Pay Day in the Gem State.
This isn’t the only issue in Idaho that is kept under wraps.
Another issue, just one of many is the $80 thousand fine Butch Otter paid for violating environmental laws on his property. He originally faced a $300 thousand fine but somehow was able to while it down. It still failed to have him recover damage wetlands.
Butch must drive a mean bulldozer, cowboy hat and all.
Then there is the sneaky way people like Larry Wasden fail to hold lawyers in his and the state’s employ accountable for evidence rules. He’s let these people ride ruff shod over people, especially women, with protective orders. Seems he too forgets that Idaho has reciprocal agreements with other states. And he probably forgets that if a judge seals documents it means that the information is not to be posted on the tax commission web site.
Ask Linda Pike about that one. Maybe ask the ID Bar Association too who let her get a free pass.
Too bad you won’t hear the truth from tax commissioners either. These Boise “insiders” seem to think it is okay to violate their own rules and cause grievous harm to many.
Did they forget that one of their rules is privacy and another is that if you are not required to file with the IRS you aren’t required to file with the ID tax commission either?
There are so many rules they ignore, glibly too, with no conscious for their wrong doing and errors of omission.
Malfeasance it seems to me, eh Larry?
And mad scrambling for CYA activity everywhere is just amazing.
Still a daily happnin’ thing after all these years.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Move it Over, and over, and over
Looks like DuWayane Hammond, Jr, a long-time, corrupt former member of the Idaho Tax Commission, just slid over a bit to a job at the finance department in Boise when he exited from the ITC.
Sure looks like a cozy political deal, doncha' think?
Anyway it seems as if he is giving out bad information to callers who want to submit a proposal to the all white, male, politically appointed stimulus committee.
Just this last Saturday, 7 March, the Spokesman Review ran a story about on how the governor was going to have to "hold his nose" and accept stimulus funding....
When this news story was mentioned to DuWayne, he hung up on a caller.
Congressman Minnick's office advised that they were aware of NO deadlines except for 'shovel ready projects'....
Gee, wouldn't it be nice to get a good news report about tax commissioners? I guess we can't hold our breath, but it sure seems as if we still need to hold our noses!
Sure looks like a cozy political deal, doncha' think?
Anyway it seems as if he is giving out bad information to callers who want to submit a proposal to the all white, male, politically appointed stimulus committee.
Just this last Saturday, 7 March, the Spokesman Review ran a story about on how the governor was going to have to "hold his nose" and accept stimulus funding....
When this news story was mentioned to DuWayne, he hung up on a caller.
Other than the fact that he hung up on the caller he was described as "rude, defensive and at best a very poor public official, and that was after we fought to find out who would help us find out anything at all about the process...."(oh yes, it's the Idaho Way)
Congressman Minnick's office advised that they were aware of NO deadlines except for 'shovel ready projects'....
Gee, wouldn't it be nice to get a good news report about tax commissioners? I guess we can't hold our breath, but it sure seems as if we still need to hold our noses!
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Stimulus
Well it seems that the entrenched politicos feeding at the insiders trough seem to be gathering to decide just how stimulus money will be spent in Idaho.
After discussing a few items with Senator Joyce Broadsword it seems, one, that the terrible practice of discriminating against those Idaho citizens who receive help from Health & Welfare is just going to continue.
What this means is that, contrary to law, these citizens aren't allowed to file for the sales tax on food refund.
I wonder if the stimulus committee will grant every one receiving help from H & W this refund so that the state tax commission stops establishing classes of recipients. Simply this means that the poor in Idaho do not receive equal protection. It also means that the state is violating the law by establishing classes of recipients do this is blatant discrimination against the poor.
Senator Broadsword says that it just isn't the time to take tax off of food.
I think it is really the correct time to repeal the food tax. It will certainly help the poor when their food stamps run out, it might make the tax commission clean up its act a little bit, and it calls for real efficiency in government (yes people like Claire Cunningham won't be able to wast taxpayer money to run witch hunts against people who have sealed court orders protected by the Idaho Code).
Just the Idaho Way you know....
and of course it is interesting to note that the stimulus panel has no women, no disabled, no indigenous: Just plain no diversity. SOP.
After discussing a few items with Senator Joyce Broadsword it seems, one, that the terrible practice of discriminating against those Idaho citizens who receive help from Health & Welfare is just going to continue.
What this means is that, contrary to law, these citizens aren't allowed to file for the sales tax on food refund.
I wonder if the stimulus committee will grant every one receiving help from H & W this refund so that the state tax commission stops establishing classes of recipients. Simply this means that the poor in Idaho do not receive equal protection. It also means that the state is violating the law by establishing classes of recipients do this is blatant discrimination against the poor.
Senator Broadsword says that it just isn't the time to take tax off of food.
I think it is really the correct time to repeal the food tax. It will certainly help the poor when their food stamps run out, it might make the tax commission clean up its act a little bit, and it calls for real efficiency in government (yes people like Claire Cunningham won't be able to wast taxpayer money to run witch hunts against people who have sealed court orders protected by the Idaho Code).
Just the Idaho Way you know....
and of course it is interesting to note that the stimulus panel has no women, no disabled, no indigenous: Just plain no diversity. SOP.
Interesting
I happened to be checking stats on my several sites and noticed that a reader from California was searching for Kempthorne/Otter gossip.
Looks as if there are others who have a clue, and they are not in Idaho government.
Looks as if there are others who have a clue, and they are not in Idaho government.
Yes, Accountability Lacking
It never ceases to amaze me just how much energy is placed in efforts to protect the bumbling tax commission.
The attacks against Stan Howland continue and the back pedaling to make it look otherwise just floors me.
So tell me Senator Kate Kelly, just how it is that if you let the tax commission write their own rules under this new law you are sponsoring does anything other than continue the status quo and the cover-ups?
This is not offering the public, whom you are elected to serve, any chance of seeing a long overdue overhaul of this very corrupt and very protected agency.
Now do you understand why I coined the phrase, "Brainless in Boise"...? Its just 'the Idaho Way'.
Having experienced serious and ongoing (over 4 years) violations of the Idaho Code by this insulated insiders club I am still scratching my head when I think of how little anyone in Idaho understands what change really is and what it means.
Idaho Reports 3-6-09
The attacks against Stan Howland continue and the back pedaling to make it look otherwise just floors me.
So tell me Senator Kate Kelly, just how it is that if you let the tax commission write their own rules under this new law you are sponsoring does anything other than continue the status quo and the cover-ups?
This is not offering the public, whom you are elected to serve, any chance of seeing a long overdue overhaul of this very corrupt and very protected agency.
Now do you understand why I coined the phrase, "Brainless in Boise"...? Its just 'the Idaho Way'.
Having experienced serious and ongoing (over 4 years) violations of the Idaho Code by this insulated insiders club I am still scratching my head when I think of how little anyone in Idaho understands what change really is and what it means.
Idaho Reports 3-6-09
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Oil and Water Don't Mix
And neither do Dirk Kempthorne and ethics.
More political propaganda from Boise as Dirk Kempthorne plies his carefully chosen words to make you believe he has ethics.
Kempthorne, while governor, protected the illegal activities of the Idaho Tax Commission. His staff failed to follow through on an investigation of a specific complaint that was promised to a member of the legislature.
His office even went so far as to state that since they were not named in a protection order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, they did not have any obligation to see that it was enforced.
I guess Dirk owed more to his back room dealings with Duwayne Hammond, Severina Haws, Larry Watson, Colleen Grant and Larry Wasden.
Now that the legislature is about to start up again for the 2009 session what more shenanigans can we expect on the tax commission cover up?
More political propaganda from Boise as Dirk Kempthorne plies his carefully chosen words to make you believe he has ethics.
Kempthorne, while governor, protected the illegal activities of the Idaho Tax Commission. His staff failed to follow through on an investigation of a specific complaint that was promised to a member of the legislature.
His office even went so far as to state that since they were not named in a protection order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, they did not have any obligation to see that it was enforced.
I guess Dirk owed more to his back room dealings with Duwayne Hammond, Severina Haws, Larry Watson, Colleen Grant and Larry Wasden.
Now that the legislature is about to start up again for the 2009 session what more shenanigans can we expect on the tax commission cover up?
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