The Wrongful Termination of Rich Wright: A jury unanimously found Dave Case and Jim Tibbs guilty of wrongful termination. Cost to taxpayers: $2.7 MILLION. Please watch our new video for details. The Wrongful Termination of Rich Wright – Video
You think property taxes in Ada County are bad now, with more than a 41 percent increase in just the past five years? Just wait, it’s going to get a lot worse! Last Wednesday, May 2, I submitted the following public records request to the Board of Ada County Commissioners: […]
Ada County Hides List (Get Ready for Huge Property Tax ...
Someone on my Facebook page recently questioned the county’s involvement in the Dynamis waste-to-energy project. He indicated my two Board colleagues and I had been duped. Nope. The contract was written in such a way as to provide the county the opportunity to get our entire investment back, if either […]
Dynamis – Why Did Case and Tibbs Fail to Get ...
Since early 2013, the Board of Ada County Commissioners has made a frightening number of bad and costly decisions, supposedly on behalf of the county’s taxpayers. FIRST, the day after I left office in January of 2013, Commissioners Dave Case and Jim Tibbs, in a two-to-one decision, fired Rich Wright. […]
A Series of Costly Decisions
Ada County was in excellent financial shape when I left office: The county carried forward 25 million unspent dollars from the FY 2013 budget into the following year’s budget Additionally, the county had more than $30 million in the bank, to pay off the courthouse bonds All of the county’s […]
Financial Frugality Facts
The Board of Ada County Commissioners made another bad and costly decision: they settled a lawsuit with Fortistar Energy (aka Hidden Hollow Energy) by paying the company more than $2.6 million. Fortistar had no legal cause of action or legitimate claim against the county. Fortistar operates two engines at the […]
Fortistar Lawsuit Facts
During my six years as an Ada County Commissioner, my colleagues and I compiled a number of achievements on behalf of our 400,000-plus constituents. For example, we: • Left $81 million (yes, EIGHTY-ONE MILLION DOLLARS!) in county property taxpayers’ pockets. That is the cumulative effect of not taking the allowable […]
Prior Achievements as an Ada County Commissioner
In Florida in 2015, the Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority opened the first waste-to-energy facility built in this country in 20 years. This distinction, and its accompanying economic development, could have belonged to Ada County. In 2010, Ada County Commissioners Fred Tilman, Rick Yzaguirre and I were seeking ways […]
Sky-is-Falling Campaign Cost County Waste-to-Energy Project
The mainstream media has done a poor job telling you the truth about appointed Ada County Commissioner and candidate Dave Case. For example: • Case broke the law when, as a classified employee for the State of Idaho, he filed to run for partisan elected office. • Case broke the […]
Press Fails Public
Here is a point-by-point critique of the Idaho Statesman’s August 17 editorial: “Hidden Hollow Energy faces a bind, resulting in part from the Dynamis dealings.” Not true. Fact: Hidden Hollow Energy’s problem is with DEQ, NOT Dynamis or Ada County. HHE wanted the county to spend approximately $1.5 million on […]