During 4th District Supervisor Lynn Compton’s interview on Dave Congalton Hometown Radio (Jan. 2, 2018) she was asked whether there would be any change in the tenor on the Board of Supervisors if she is re-elected. Ms. Compton readily admitted that wouldn’t change.
Furthermore, she refused to accept any responsibility in the board’s dysfunction when she innocently begged listeners to ” … point out what I’m doing that is so egregious.” Is she clueless that the her lockstep consistent 3-2 voting with 1st District Supervisor John Peschong and 5th District Supervisor Debbie Arnold on almost every vote is egregious?
When further asked whether that pattern would continue, Ms. Compton cavalierly replied “I don’t know. I vote the way I feel I should vote.” She fails to reassure any of us that her decisions will ever be based on fairness and fact rather than her political ideology.
Clearly, she has forgotten the mandate in her job description that says she will serve the needs of the community, not her party. On the contrary, she actually stated, “This is a democracy, majority rules, and it’s too bad if you don’t like it.” And that’s the epitome of partisan politics. Nothing will change if she is re-elected. We need to get partisan politics out of our Board of Supervisors.
Ronda McKible
Nipomo
This article appears in Weddings 2018.
The choice is clear. If you want oil drilling off the coast, dust on the dunes, no choice on who to buy electricity from, and like paying the millions of dollars of ground water studies originally agreed to be paid by the Big Wine growers in Paso Robles but transferred by Lynn Compton to the General Taxpayers (thats you, District 4 taxpayers), vote for Lynn. She’s your gal, and you should expect more of it in the future.
Or you can vote for Jimmy Paulding, and have a better future. Your choice.
Dan Cook
Templeton
It is sad that you do not know the difference between ending partisan politics and putting your team in charge.
The best thing any of us can do to restore civility and competence to the Board is to join the Republican/Democratic Coalition in support of Jimmy Paulding for County Supervisor. Paulding deserves the support of each of the sitting board members: Gibson, Compton, Peschong, Arnold and Hill, each of whom consider Paulding a formidable candidate and the most qualified to run for a SLO County board seat in decades.
The word is that Lynne Compton is fearing for her political life and will be doing everything in her (and her lobbyist friends’) powers to avoid having an honest, face-to-face political debate with Jimmy Paulding. Instead, Compton is aiming to avoid any serious challenges to her selfish, skewed world-view and so hopes to use radio host Dave Congalton to help her spread her one-sided, misleading, bought-and-paid-for propaganda to prospective voters without serious or credible challenge. What an embarrassment and travesty that will be (again!)
Bottom line is we need HONEST, CARING and most of all COMPETENT local leadership, now more than ever.