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Friday, May 8, 2009

Boise City Council Tibbs won't seek reelection

Posted by Nathaniel Hoffman on Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM

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Boise City Councilman Jim Tibbs told citydesk this afternoon that he will not seek another term on the Council when his seat expires in January 2010.


Tibbs, a retired Boise police lieutenant, said he was looking into other ventures, possibly a return to law enforcement, but that he had not figured out what his next gig might be.

"A lot of the agencies are not hiring right now—Nampa, Caldwell, Meridian are all in the same economic situation," Tibbs said.

TJ Thomson, an internal auditor at Idaho Power Co., has filed an intention to run for the seat held by Tibbs. The official filing period for candidates begins Aug. 24 and Council members Maryanne Jordan and Vern Bisterfeldt are also up for re-election.

Tibbs was first elected to the Boise City Council in 2005, beating longtime Councilman Jerome Mapp.  He went to work for the Boise Police Department in 1970 and served in various roles at the department for 34 years. After leaving BPD, Tibbs worked as an investigator at the Canyon County Prosecutor's Office for about a year.

Tibbs said this afternoon that he fell in love with the Canyon County area while working there.

His tenure in Caldwell was short-lived as then Gov. Jim Risch appointed him the state drug czar about the same time he won his first City Council term. Tibbs also ran for Boise mayor in 2007 and would not rule out the possibility of future political runs.

Tibbs said he had not met Thomson but was pleased that the candidate had been through Boise's Citizen Police Academy and that he volunteers his time as McGruff the Crime Dog.

Thomson reiterated that his campaign was never against Tibbs and that he just wants to bring a "fresh voice" to the city.

“I had a high respect for Jim Tibbs because of his service in the military—we’re both veterans— and his service in the Police Department,” Thomson said.

Tibbs has mentioned that he won't seek reelection to other council members and said he does not know of anyone else eager to run for his seat in the November election.


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Many can see that change is needed and a fresh voice is welcomed.

While many of us respect Tibbs' service to this city, we must throw our support behind TJ Thomson as the only candidate running that has demonstrated the ability to offer not only a fresh voice on the city council, but also the ability to intrinsically understand the "process" and be able to work w/in it to achieve the change necessary to make progress in Boise.

It's TJ all the way!

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Posted by Kass on 05/08/2009 at 7:00 PM

Fresh voice? Intrinsically understand the "process". That's a euphemism for understanding and being willing to go along with the oligarchical crap of the mayor and the entire council other than Tibbs? What part of we don't want libraries do those oligarchs not understand? What part of Bieter needs to stop farming out pointless feasibility studies to his buddies do we not understand? Tibbs is the only decent person on the council. Screw Boise, it's becoming a hellhole.

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Posted by Alva on 05/10/2009 at 10:49 PM
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