Posted on 04/17/2025 8:34:59 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Idaho’s chief lawyer has asked the city of Boise to comply with a new law that limits what flags may be flown by government buildings and warned that the state may try to withhold sales tax revenues if the city refuses.
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador wrote a letter to Boise Mayor Lauren McLean on Tuesday requesting that she take down the prohibited flags outside city hall — as of Wednesday morning, the city displayed a Pride flag and a flag honoring organ and tissue donors, along with an American flag, city of Boise flag, state of Idaho flag and POW/MIA flag. Under the new law, the Pride flag and the flag honoring organ and tissue donors are not allowed to be flown outside government buildings.
“Though you are required to govern the city in accordance with the law, you have instead chosen to defy the Legislature — and by extension, the people of Idaho whom the Legislature represents — and to act as though your personal political views exempt you from compliance,” Labrador wrote.
City of Boise spokesperson Emilee Ayers wrote in an emailed response to a request for comment, "We are in receipt of letters from both the Attorney General and the Ada County Sheriff. While we are sorting out the reach and impact of HB 96 — which includes neither definitions nor enforcement mechanisms, we will continue to fly the flags currently on display at City Hall."
Ada County Sheriff Matthew Clifford also wrote to McLean on Tuesday, saying that the office had been receiving calls to report Boise for its violation of the code.
"I have discovered that this new state code fails to tell me what the required penalties would be for this unlawful behavior," Clifford wrote.
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It’s not “Lift Up And Sing”.
They’ll see each other in court.
Dems might as well start flying the ISIS flag and the MS 13 logo as well. We know where they stand.
What a total head fake.
Any excuse wii do.
It’s not that the law in question doesn’t define which flags are allowable, It’s that it does not properly define punishment.
So these JackAsses know it is aga8nst the law.
If these TREASONOUS commie BRAINWASHED BRAINDEAD IDIOTS would put as much effort into improving Our Country as they do trying to destroy it could/might be amazing.
Yeah, Yeah I know that I’m dreaming...
The Democrat Party ignores laws it doesn’t like.
Make it the death penalty, then.
Boise used to be Conservative. Locusts from Oregon and California ruined it.
My remark was directed toward Boise. While Idaho is basically red, Boise is purple at best. If Boise is so conservative, why would the pride flag be flying, especially in opposition to state law?
Lauren McLean is from Boston.
Better yet. Arrest and lock up the Mayor then tell her you’ll let her go once the state legislature figures out what the penalties are 🙂
Round cheer in the South we like the Merican and State flags, the POW flag and that’s it. Those rainbow jobbies are fer testing lighters on.
I hate Idaho commies.
That statement about “not knowing the penalty” makes me mad. Who cares if it’s life in prison or writing “I will not fly the Pride flag over City Hall” 100 times on the blackboard? He’s fishing. He’s saying “If it’s a small penalty, I’ll ignore the law. If it’s a big penalty, maybe I’ll follow the new law.”
Correct. The state has available the registration data of new residents. The new residents are overwhelmingly registering as Republicans, in far greater percentages than the earlier Idahoans.
Lauren McLean is a hard core leftist / prog / marxist.
That’s because they’re spoiled traitors.
Californicators by the way are Californian ex pats that move to Idaho to escape the high taxes, insane government, bad air and high crime.Then they turn around and try to get our government to fund the amenities they've grown used to, thus driving up taxes for the rest of us, imposing or attempting to impose their will on things like dairy farms, too stinky, farmers working their fields, too noisy and dusty, wanting to limit hunting, “Bambi Killers” and of course evil firearms. In short trying to turn us into what they fled. If you recognize yourself in the above, you're probably a Califoricator. If you don't welcome to the Gem State.
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