A Sequim-based Republican-leaning group co-led by defeated Clallam County Commissioner Jim McEntire has promoted a group of opposition candidates to run for Port Angeles City Council.
McEntire’s co-lead, Donnie Hall, says the group is interested in “common sense solutions.”
However, the proposals this group’s candidates are promoting are anything but common-sense; they are in fact the same tired, narrow-minded ideas that don’t take the real world into account.
This group criticizes the current city council for tracking national issues.
But our current council members do this for one simple reason: to see what works and what doesn’t in other places, just as others around the country have learned from our own local drug court.
This is the commonest of common sense, increasing our local effectiveness and saving us a huge amount of wasted money and effort.
One has only to remember the tenure of Mr. McEntire as county commissioner to recall what wasted money and effort look like.
Our current city council is heads above anything this city has seen in a long time.
They’re not supported by a group of political operatives, and they don’t think in lockstep or in an ideological way; in fact, what distinguishes them most is how open, refreshing, and thoughtful their discussions always are.
Please vote for LaTrisha Suggs, Mike French, Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, and Kate Dexter to continue their probing search for answers to the complex issues of today’s society in this beautiful place we call home.
Ed Chadd
Port Angeles