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.

Answer this please

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Why is it that DuWayne Hammond, Larry Watson, Severina Haws and Colleen Grant believe they are not required to follow the law?

Why is it that DuWayne Hammond stated in correspondence that Carolyn Hartman, an employee of the ITC who lied under oath in an administrative hearing did nothing wrong?

Larry Watson, remember the DUI he got and went begging to the governor in repentance? Why is it that Larry did not see anything wrong with another ITC employee, Linda Pike, an attorney, allow an in-force protection order be violated, putting a person at risk for extreme harm, because their name and (sealed) address was placed on the internet. MMMM, just how private is the ITC privacy policy?

And What about Colleen Grant who does not think it is harassment for the ITC to demand tax returns from a person who is not an Idaho resident? Maybe it is the behind the scenes operation they run that they don't want you to see. By the way, I had to send Grant an entire page defining harassment so that she understood what the law has to say about it.

And then there is Sam Haws who did not read a very important piece of correspondence asking some specific questions about the activities of the ITC that violate the Idaho Code and Administrative Procedures Act.

I am sure there will be more to show the lack of responsiveness to the law and to the citizens.

Remember now commissioners, citizens are those people you are sworn to serve.