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TO THE EDITOR
The position of commissioner is
nonpartisan. Andy believes that the job of
an elected offi cial is to listen to all voices,
ensure that everyone has a seat at the table
and, at the end of the deliberative process,
make principled decisions with wisdom,
compassion and intelligence.
As a member of the Lane County
Citizens Review Board, Andy is an
advocate for foster children. He served as
a director on the Crow-Applegate-Lorane
School Board. He is executive director of a
nonprofi t agency that promotes responsible
stewardship of our water and forest
resources. He is particularly qualifi ed to
address issues that may soon come before
the commissioners, such as declining
federal support for the county, regulation of
mining and other natural resource concerns.
This is the kind of person I am looking
for to serve as Lane County commissioner.
Jeanne Armstrong
Eugene
Just when you need them most…
for EWEB commissioner. Steve is the
kind of commissioner that EWEB needs:
creative, thoughtful, hard-working and
caring. His long list of successes working
in sustainability and program development
show that he is forward thinking and can
get the job done. Just as importantly,
Steve’s a great guy — he’s personable,
considerate, generous, and the type of
person who can bring folks together and
inspire them to work hard. Considering all
the challenges facing EWEB in the near
future — climate change, increasing rates,
waterfront redevelopment — Steve has the
skills necessary to help keep EWEB ahead
of these issues.
I’m not the only one who’s noticed that
Steve will be a great fi t for EWEB. The
R-G, Mayor Kitty Piercy and two other
EWEB commissioners have all endorsed
Steve. I hope you will join them and me in
supporting Steve Mital.
Matt Peterson
Eugene
QUESTION OF CHARACTER
Equally important as the issues of the
day are a candidate’s temperament and
character.
I was alarmed at a recent Cottage
Grove Blackberry Pie Society appearance
by commissioner candidate Andy Stahl.
His glib negativity and willingness to
make needless personal remarks against
opponents was shocking.
Responding to a question about his
massive clear-cutting of federal O&C forests
blueprint, Stahl brought up a Jan. 26 R-G
letter critical of him by local writer George
Beres; Stahl dismissed it by referring to an
accident Beres had suffered some time ago
as a basis for not taking it seriously.
George Beres did suffer a painful, near
life-threatening head injury bicycle accident
31 years ago and thankfully he has fully
recovered. Agree or not with every one of his
prolifi c articles and letters to the editor, no
one can dispute the man’s brilliance. Beres
has played an active and spirited role in the
cultural and political life of our community.
As a cyclist himself, Stahl surely owes
Beres an apology.
Alice Doyle
Cottage Grove
MITAL HAS THE SKILLS
I’m writing to urge my neighbors in
Wards 1 and 8 to vote for Steve Mital
LOAD OF DOGMA
Now it comes out in EW that Randall
O’Toole, a senior fellow at the Cato
Institute, is a close friend of Andy Stahl,
who is seeking to unseat Pete Sorenson
as south Eugene’s county commissioner.
O’Toole, who has written extensively on
forest policy from the perspective that
no regulation is good regulation, has also
written on urban planning. He asserts (and
backs up with a full load of dogma) that all
urban planning is bad and regulation was
the cause of the housing bubble. He also
asserts that cities should have no voice in
land use planning on their periphery.
Do the citizens of south Eugene think
that is a sound position for their county
commissioner to take? Do they want to give
up on regulating development on the city’s
southern skyline and turn it over to the real
estate market? Do we want offi ce towers
on Spencer Butte? Is Stahl’s proposal to
revert to the arrangement of three at-large
commissioners that Lane County rejected
30 years ago, a way to further the anti-
regulation agenda?
Please, let’s keep the commissioner we
have, who has defended the interests of his
constituents and all the citizens of Lane
County against the infl uence of Big Money.
Ann M. Tattersall
Eugene
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