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?

Don't They Call This The Fox in the Hen House?

The foxes are in charge of the chicken coop. Having made initial mistakes they are in the position of having to defend those mistakes by compounding them. Clearly, there are not enough checks and balances in place. Not enough watchdogs to guard against the foxes nor enough penalties to make those in charge think twice about lying and compounding the lie. The penalties for compounding lies should increase exponentially over time to prevent the paramount ethic at work from being, "Cover your tracks at all costs."

"A lawyer is a representative of clients, and officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice."

Not so if your name is Linda Pike and you work for the Idaho Board of Tax Appeals. You don't even have to follow the Rules of Professional Conduct, Court Rules or procedures spelled out in the Idaho Statutes and Administrative Code.

You think too that you have the power, just like Carolyn Hartman, to claim you are a judge in the Superior Courts of two counties in Washington state, and freely alter an order of the court, with no authority to do so, putting a person's life at risk of grave harm.

It's good that you think too your experience with the Tax Appeals Board qualifies you to be a county commissioner.

I guess this puts you on par with another UI Law School grad that suggested I should have lied and then I would have avoided all this.

I majored in Ethics while completing my advanced degrees, maybe you missed this class or the toxic farm chemicals in the air around here altered your moral aptitude.