Sightem

I’d like to have been a fly on the wall around 5:15-20 Monday evening when Rep. Bob Nonini and Judge John Mitchell (pictured) happened upon state Sen. John Goedde, Rep-elect Kathy Sims, & Rep. Phil Hart near the security area of the old Kootenai County Courthouse. Mitchell, as you may recall, tossed Hart’s legal bid to forestall the Idaho Tax Commission from coming after $53,523 in state income tax he owes. You remember, don’t you? In his findings, Mitchell said: “Hart’s [motion] lacks any cogent legal argument as to why this Court has jurisdiction.” Hart, of course, asked to be removed from his seat on the House Revenue & Taxation Committee as a result of the hubbub surrounding all the federal & state income tax he owes. But he still holds a seat on the House Judiciary Committee. Which, given the unsatisfactory ruling in Mitchell’s court, is curious.