Local ‘Success’ Lacking

     http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_11cfeb7e-5def-5de7-aa1f-53d7d6af95f2.html

     Bringing ‘Balance’ to North Idaho

     http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_ffd42544-fa0c-52bf-9687-513b6f2fac3d.html

Great Response from Mary Souza:

“Balance” is Off-Kilter

Dear Newsletter Readers,

     We are seriously out of balance in North Idaho.  The City has reached new heights of dysfunction and is teetering on the brink of self-made chaos, and a new political action committee has announced their intention to bring more “balance” to  our local school board, hospital board and city council elections.  The problem is they are not as balanced as they’d like you to think; they seem to lean heavily in one direction.

Let’s start with the Balance North Idaho group first, and then I’ll tell you about the latest city drama, starring Mayor Bloem and her raised fist.

     The Balance group announced itself last week and was enthusiastically promoted by the Press in an editorial on Wednesday.  “Balance is beautiful” said the Press.   The group claims their mission is to “endorse and promote candidates and issues in local non-partisan elections.” They state they want people who are fiscally responsible.

     So I looked up the board members of this group and almost fell off my chair.  These people seem to have one very big thing in common, and it’s not balance.  They do NOT want the public to have a vote!

     Co-founders Eden Irgens and Sara Meyer were both highly outspoken AGAINST any kind of public vote on the McEuen Park project.  They worked hard to make sure you and I could not have a voice.  Sara was also a co-founder of the Anti-Recall group which again worked to make sure the people of CdA did not get a vote on whether or not to retain the Mayor and 3 of the city council members.  Eden came up with the “Decline to Sign” motto.  Maybe the new Balance group will try “Decline to Vote”.

     Balance board member Mic Armon was on the NIC Board of Trustees when decisions were being made regarding the Education Corridor.  I asked Mic, in person back then, why the NIC board was not putting the purchase of the 17 acre property near the sewage treatment plant to a Bond election where the public could vote.  Mic told me “because we were told it wouldn’t pass”.  Is it “balanced” to deny people a vote if you’re not sure it will pass?

     And the Balance group says it wants “fiscally responsible” people?  The $10 million dollar Ed Corridor land was not put to a public Bond, the repayment of which could have been stretched out over a long period.  Instead they took Foregone Taxes, costing taxpayers instantly more year after year forever, and they also pulled a backdoor, probably illegal, financing deal with the private NIC Foundation.  Fiscally responsible?…I don’t think so.

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