Op-Ed: Regarding the Returned Donation From Boise Mayor Candidate Mike Masterson

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1. Masterson is the Mitt Romney of Idaho Republicans.

   1. Right, Romney is a fake Mormon. Any candidate that supports Gay Pride is not conservative. Boise is going to get evil, or some other shade of evil with these two bad choices. When Boise finds a candidate that is against Pride then real change could begin. Maybe the LGBTQ people will repent and stop committing eternal suicide. If you insist on being LGBTQ, you might get stuck that way, for eternity. I want you to go straight, have a clean conscience, be happy with a family that has children the natural way.

      1. Do you live in Boise.

      2. I have to agree, but given the 2, it’s Mike Masterson’s. I follow the world economic forum, ICLEI, agenda 21 for the 21st century and these 3 and many other groups are trying to make us into one world gvt. There is evil and there is evil. Just because he chose to send it back doesn’t mean he supports Pride garbage. It could mean he can’t not put up with it at this time.

   2. Mitt Romney is not a good person. Hands down. He’s got a bad sense of anything. He’s not conservative. Given the 2 however, Masterson is my choice. I can’t stand McLean. I’m following the World Economic Forum, the Agenda 21, ICLEI, and these 3 are trying to put us in one world gvt. I don’t believe Mike is trying that. McLean certainly is. I’m not good with Pride either. It’s not right. But that’s God ‘s judgement to make. I’m boldly stating that is my stand on it, but it’s not my place to judge them. Only God but I don’t want it around kids either.

2. The number of homeless under McLean has not exploded. And if it has, what specific McLean policy is to blame. McLean is working to expand housing options, which Masterson is against.

   1. I am from Boise and it has exploded! Just look with your own two eyes. I have never seen people sleeping on the street on Capital Blvd or even on the greenbelt from Orchard to the Veteran Memorial by Anne Morrison. That NEVER existed! Let alone the fowl smell in those areas.

      1. You don’t remember Cooper Court in Boise? And what specific policy under McLean has caused this so called explosion in homelessness?

         1. I refuse to live in a city ever again – Mark, maybe it is a lack of policy by the mayor?

         2. You mean Interfaith Sanctuary? That never existed either. I remember it forming. It got cleaned up and then when the new Mayor McLean got elected they tried to erect it again. The next day the new camp they tried to impliment again was gone. It’s not a single policy, it’s how bold citizens/IFS feels they can push the city before they can call those that push back horrible names and shaming them. The fact the encampents have most recently been put on State land rather than infront of the Boise City Hall is called playing games. This “specific policy” you are asking for is you playing games.

      2. Agreed

      3. I don’t know where you are from, but since I have been back to Idaho in 2005, homeless people have been camping on the streets on the greenbelt, Capitol Blvd. and elsewhere. You must have been wearing blinders. Hell for that matter homeless have been camping on the greenbelt before it was a greenbelt back in the 80’s. Homeless explodes every time a Republican is in office back when the Democrats ran this State and this Country, the homeless population was at an all time low, and just as soon as Republicans get in office it explodes to an all-time high, because they are greedy, rent goes up food prices skyrocket, rent skyrockets, and the rich get the biggest tax cuts and the poor have to pickup the slack making them even poorer. Now if you want to criminalize the homeless start with the rich who think they are entitled to more money and privileges than anyone else. “REPUBLICANS!!!!!!” That is the truth of the matter. And if you don’t believe me look at the past 10 years every since DONALD J. TRUMP started opening his mouth.

      4. I don’t know where you are from, but since I have been back to Idaho in 2005, homeless people have been camping on the streets on the greenbelt, Capitol Blvd. and elsewhere. You must have been wearing blinders. Hell for that matter homeless have been camping on the greenbelt before it was a greenbelt back in the 80’s. Homeless explodes every time a Republican is in office back when the Democrats ran this State and this Country, the homeless population was at an all time low, and just as soon as Republicans get in office it explodes to an all-time high, because they are greedy, rent goes up food prices skyrocket, and the rich get the biggest tax cuts and the poor have to pickup the slack making them even poorer. Now if you want to criminalize the homeless start with the rich who think they are entitled to more money and privileges than anyone else. “REPUBLICANS!!!!!!” That is the truth of the matter. And if you don’t believe me look at the past 10 years every since DONALD J. TRUMP started opening his mouth.

   2. Lol you even admit you don’t know if your statement is true. Homelessness could be up 1000% but “muh opinion”.

      1. Is homelessness up? Link?

         1. Seriously? Is it up, yes it is. McLean has tied the police’s hands when it comes to homeless just like Oregon!

            1. Much of that was due to the City’s unwillingness to fight the Federal Court case where the homeless people sued to be able to camp out on public property – and won. When did the city give up? After McLean became mayor.

         2. Crime is definitely up. If you need links, just visit the local police dept social media

            1. The BPD lies to get more funding to put more policemen/women on the streets. This means to become a “POLICE STATE.” And according to the FBI statistics, crime is at an all time low in this country, however juvenile crime is up because parents refuse to correct their children. The homeless get blamed for all the crime, sure there are some homeless people who do commit crime, but do they really commit all the crime in this city or nation wide, REALLY? people are given misleading information, and sometimes your family, friends and etcetera blame crime on the homeless population even though they themselves committed the crime, instead of taking responsibility for their own actions.

   3. In my 65 years on this earth, housing options have never needed to be expanded. Yo build houses and apartments, and people will move in. If you want to call them options, fine then do so.
      What is needed, is an economy that allows couples to pay the rent and mortgage on one income. Sadly we now have an overwhelming abundance of tax and spend politicians that prevent the one income family from existing. And don’t get me started on the term Affordable Housing. There’s no such thing. It’s a made up, feel good term that was created by the Tax and Spend’s.
      Bottom line, the current Mayor of Boise has been a disaster and is hellbent on duplicating Portland, here in Idaho with her socialist policies. It is time for her to find a real job.

      1. Exactly, Phil, 1000% correct. I’ve only been here five years, but in that time, I’ve seen Boise go from a clean and enjoyable city to a mismanaged liberal hell hole. McLean and her minions are not here to improve anything. They are here to destroy this city and make it a Portland/ San Fran clone. What a shame.
         Can these demons be stopped?

      2. Bingo!

      3. CHA-CHING!

      4. What socialist policies? Please be specific.

      5. Agree

   4. So, you see no increase in homeless numbers?

      1. No, I have not seen an explosion of homeless population in Boise, Idaho. Nor have I seen any socialist policies under this Mayor “mayormclean@cityofboise.org” as I would with Masterson. Everyone who thinks that crime is committed by the homeless needs to wake up and look around and quit believing the lies these Californians are spreading. Crime in Idaho exploded here in Boise and elsewhere in Idaho when these Republicans from California, Texas, Washington, and Oregon moved their criminal kids with them to this Beautiful State. The homeless population gets the blame for crime when people wear blinders and refuse to except the fact that their innocent child committed the crime. I walk down the sidewalks of Boise idaho and watch these entitled juvenile criminals wreak havoc on our streets tearing up flower pots and flowers as well as the scooters and electric bikes, because mommy and daddy will pay for them. However these juvenile criminals will blame the homeless for the damages and mommy and daddy will believe them. I have also seen mommy and daddy out on the town late at night drunk and doing what their criminal child was doing earlier that day. Now once you criminalize the homelessness and you throw the homeless in prison and jail and crime is still happening who are you going to blame? It can’t be the homeless because you over crowded the prisons and jails with them, and they are no longer on the streets, who do you blame now? Oh, I forgot, it would be the DEMOCRATS, they are the root of all crime, right? Well your innocent child did it again. When do you look at you and your child as the cause of the problem of crime. Homelessness is caused by greedy people who want to turn Idaho in to a State they just left, i.e., California, Texas, Oregon, and Washington, and raise the rent so high only the rich can afford it which CAUSES HOMELESSNESS. I remember back in 2005 through 2014 when a person could afford a place to live in and cardboard boxes was free. Now cardboard boxes costs $500 a month and affordable housing starts at $1100 a month, this is due to the greedy Republicans moving in to this State and turning STATE into California and other crime riden States and bale others for their own short falls. WAKE UP IDAHOANS start looking around you and see what it really is. Don’t believe these lying Republicans

3. That fact that McLean has been Governor…, clearly illustrates the fact, that Boise is just one more blue shthole. Portland Seattle Denver…. I was born in California lived there for 65 years. Fought the left in every way possible. Boise is dead. Kaput. Titsup.
   And Masterson is simply one more spineless double talking for-sale career politician pos.
   As a bad or worse than McLean…., because he claims conservatism as he assists the left.
   We need fckg spine. While the cowboy hat wearing fed $ loving mandate loving sacks o crap get mega wealthy and remain in office indefinitely….
   So tell me, why the F is Simpson still around?

   1. Very succinctly put.

   2. Several quibbles. First, McLean is the _mayor_ of Boise, not the Governor. (That being said, our governor is almost as lefty as the Mayor, being in the pockets of the hospital system cabal.)

      Second, _Lauren_ McClean is a woman – not a man.

      Third, McClean has never claimed to be a conservative. She’s a leftist and proud of it – at least until her import for Police Chief went and broke a fellow officer’s spine and had to be fired. McClean openly shills for Joe Biden and wants to turn Boise into another Portland/Seattle-like hellhole.

      I’d take Bieter over McLean in a heartbeat. At least he had the sense enough not to kill downtown with parking taxes or waste money on scooters.

      1. “our governor is almost as lefty as the Mayor”

         That’s rich!

         “waste money on scooters”
         All of the scooters are provided by private companies, friend.

4. It’s a simple choice- 4 more years of the current disaster under McLean or we give Mike Masterson the helm and see what changes. There are no perfect candidates, but certainly the current Mayor must go. All conservatives MUST vote in the upcoming election. Even if Masterson represents 50% of your values he is a far better choice than someone that represents 0%’of your values.

   1. FACT:

      The fallacy with you view is that historically… once you elect a RINO, they are 100% harder to remove from office than a flaming Communist. Mike Simpson is a stellar example. We have been suffering ever since under his watch since he took office.

      1. Precisely. Rinos are worse than Dems. They’re lying sacks. And the Lincoln Project/Reclaim/Take Back Idaho fools enable it all. All because, they hate Trump.

         1. Absolutely correct

5. Where in the Op-Ed does he talk about a returned donation?? The title is confusing.

6. This article is missing the subject, what donation and what does this have to do with gay pride events?

   1. Because the cleanliness of a city is based on the morality of that city.

7. We’re glad we moved from “Little Portland” 12 years ago. We’ve seen Boise work its way down the tubes of late and while we feel for the majority of residents that I’m sure do not like what they are seeing, get off your butts and VOTE “Comrade Lauren” out come November!!! There are more of you than them.

8. Boise was clean not because of any one man, it was clean because of the people that lived there. To suppose all credit should be given to one man is short–sighted. In my activism years ago, Masterson came out in support of PRIDE and got heck for it, today, freedom people support him creating reasons why without looking at the inconsistent worldview of the people that are supported. It is important to remember, the mayor chooses the Chief, never forget that. The mayor also controls the chief, never forget that either. Also, the people in office I believe fully represent those he represents. In this case, a man apparently may disagree with PRIDE or the simple fact that it is public or includes children. To me, this imbecilic thought contributes to why we are where we are because an inconsistent tolerant choice that few seem to realize is the very part of soiling a clean state. The reason why we have people like this in office is because we have people willing to marginalize liberty in the name of tolerance. If the constitution was written for a moral and religious people what happens when we have tolerant backers that don’t understand the depth of such a belief? We have a soiled city so is the article inconsistent with liberty and is it ironic that on one hand one supports a clean city on one hand but apparently support its soiling on the other? Additionally, when we look for a candidate is the fact that it supports protected classes of people worth supporting or can that support for that one thing be enough to vote for a candidate that wouldn’t have won without it? I am not a vet so now what? I don’t support PRIDE, so now what? Who supports me and others like me? Shouldn’t we have candidates that support nothing else but the one thing I support? I call such support rather divisive. Also, and as hard as it is to read, People should be very careful who they support when they are funded by tax dollars because truth is, “when people find out how to vote money, it will herald the end of the republic and that means everyone not just democrats or republicans.

   1. Absolutely correct

9. If you think a genuine conservative can win in Boise, you are mistaken. It’s clear that there are enough left leaning and/or moderates to get McLean elected… along with the fact that OUR conservative base refuses to vote for a better (but not perfect) conservative because they are waiting for the perfect candidate. If you wait on the sidelines (again) and don’t vote for Masterson, prepare for more McLean. As a Boise resident, I’m voting for Masterson as I have seen what McLean is doing. Don’t let her have 4 more years.

10. I moved to the Boise Valley in 1996, because it felt very clean and friendly. A breath of fresh air after living in Reno. The city streets were clean and city property was well maintained, no weeds in the sidewalks, no homeless begging from their street tents, etc. People were friendly to each other, smiled and said hi to strangers. There was no instant judgment from anyone downtown. You had gays, hipsters, corporate bigwigs and conservatives all rubbing shoulders with each other at the downtown outdoor restaurant seating areas. It was a wonderful experience on a daily basis. Now downtown Boise is a place you go only when you have no other options. It was a slow transition, but it happened because the native population won’t fight back. My in-laws are wonderful, Christian, family oriented Idahoans. You can’t even speak of what the influence of California and the other leftist states immigrants are doing to their state. They just bury their heads in the sand and say they won’t change their views of life, but they won’t vote either. Boise has become a dirty, unfriendly city, because the native population would rather compromise their principles than stop the evil that has taken over their city

    1. I don’t think you have been to Boise lately, at least downtown Boise. There are more restaurants (locally owned), entertainment venues, arts, employers, etc than ever. Downtown Boise is a gem.

11. Doesn’t anyone else find it odd that in the capital city of what has to be one of the reddest states in the union, we can’t get an actual, patriotic Conservative on the mayoral ballot?

    Or for that matter, how was virtually every state office ‘won’ by RINO’s in the last statewide elections?

    Something doesn’t add up. How does a state that is around %65 red keep getting blue and purple candidates elected?

    1. Because “The Best Liar Wins”.

    2. Democrats and liberal, officially unaffiliated voters, are allowed to register as Republican before primaries. Then they vote for the most liberal Republican on the ballot (aka, RINOs). Once these votes are counted along with the low-info Republican voters (“If s/he has an ‘R’ next to their names, I vote for them, no questions asked or efforts made to really know who I’m voting for”), the RINO wins and we get Democrat-lite. Those who switched party affiliations to Republican then switch back to Democrat for the general elections.

       Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

12. No matter what, Democrats will support a Democrat. People think the Boise Pride event is safe for children, just not their own. They support McClean homeless housing. If you look in every state they do this, crime goes up and good people are forced to move away. Always funny how people support bad ideas until they are the victim. I stand behind Mike Masterson. He was a public servant as police chief and understands that even the Boise Pride has rights. But I do believe Mike Masterson needs to inforce the law at these events. Just like they would at any event.

13. Would you like to be beat with a stick or a pipe?
    Vote Stick. Vote Masterson

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