Supporting Rick Hughes, Bob Jarman | Letter
Published 11:26 am Thursday, April 11, 2013
Join us to re-elect Rick Hughes and Bob Jarman. Our county council continues to need both badly. They introduced a fresh breeze into the council. We need to keep them there. They will do well for all of us.
We respect Lisa Byers’ record for OPAL, but ask whether that success automatically translates into an equally good prospect for her as an effective county council person. We need representatives who have a track record and experience in running businesses.Listening to the community is one thing, but then acting in accordance with the desires of the people in a reasoned business-like manner is quite another. When the race for county council is clearly labeled to be a non-partisan endeavor, we are concerned about the identity of the financial backers of Lisa’s campaign. She will no doubt feel committed to pursue their agendas. Rick Hughes by comparison is an independent business man with the experience of managing toward a bottom line and making a payroll. His opponent does not demonstrate an equal background.
Bob Jarman won over Lovel Pratt last November. She was voted out of the council. Lovel was head-over-heels into backing and pushing for the much cussed and discussed new CAO regulations. It does not show considered leadership when it was blatantly clear that the San Juan County constituency not only had loads of questions, but most were utterly opposed to many of the nonsensical and very costly new regulations on property owners. Lovel has never run a business. The concept of “customer satisfaction” does not appear to be in her vocabulary. She does not know what it takes to meet a payroll or to manage toward a bottom line. The backers of her campaign are partisan and they do have agendas. By contrast, Bob Jarman is an independent, he is a practical and down-to-earth successful businessman. Lovel’s background and her past positions on the county council do not make her an attractive candidate for us.
Rick Hughes and Bob Jarman have our votes and they deserve yours, too.
Rolf and Ruth Nedelmann
Orcas Island
