Lowe Firing Costing $25K Per Month

The firing of former state Transportation Director Pam Lowe, and defending the resulting wrongful-termination lawsuit, is costing Idaho about $25,000 a month, the Idaho Statesman reports today, with the state’s legal bills for the outside lawyers it’s hired to handle the case now at $257,913 and counting. That’s just for March through December. A trial in the case is scheduled for Aug. 8, and there are a lot big legal bills to come; last month, the state submitted a 5,400-page brief in the case/ Betsy Russell , Eye On Boise. More here . (SR file photo of Pam Lowe)

Question: Could the Otter administration have handled the firing of former state Transportation Director more poorly?