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Boise Mayor Lauren McLean was so sure that dark money operatives would buy televisions ads for her election bid last year that she didn’t buy any herself. Her campaign spent a few grand on Facebook and Google ads, but most of her $355,000 budget went to the practical expenses of running her 2019 campaign: staff, printing, mail, food, and related items. On paper, she had around $100,000 less than her opponent, fellow Democrat and —at 16 years in office — Boise’s longest-serving mayor, Dave Bieter. But operating mostly off the books, a shadow campaign sent $310,000 in-state to blanket Boise...

An Idaho teacher who suggested that Boise’s mayor should “get laid” by Black Lives Matter members is now out of a job, district officials said. Rita Soltesz, who formerly taught music at the Idaho Fine Arts Academy and Eagle Middle School, got axed by the West Ada School district following the sexually and racially charged comment about Mayor Lauren McLean, a spokesman told the Idaho Statesman. Soltesz, whose last day was Friday, came under fire after district officials and parents spotted her July 18 Facebook post referencing McLean’s public condemnation of white supremacists who attended a Black Lives Matter protest...

There's an effort to recall Boise Mayor Lauren McLean. The recall organizer in the video says she ran as moderate Democrat but, "She's got far left people coming up with crazy stuff. K - 12 sex education? I don't want to be paying for that." He says he doesn't want Boise to turn into Seattle or Portland and that she can ruin the city in 6 months to a year. He also criticized Boise city council member Lisa Sanchez. His group is trying to recall for coming out with a racist article (anti-white) article.   Click to jump to part...