The SLO County Board of Supervisors is not fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities.
The recent Tribune editorial (June 15, 2021: “True to form, SLO County’s conservative supervisors make the wrong choice—again”) is a blatant illustration of the conservative majority’s unwillingness to listen to their constituents, failure to follow their stated mission, and inability to fulfill their fiscal responsibilities.
Supervisors Lynn Compton, John Peschong, and Debbie Arnold made a conscious decision to ignore the dozens of letters imploring them to make the logical and fiscally responsible choice to fulfill the remaining term for county clerk-recorder. And those same supervisors who voted not to spend money to modernize our voting process turn on a dime and vote to spend money to seek statewide candidates without proper qualifications when there is a qualified candidate with proven success acting in an interim capacity already. Who does that? Certainly not financially responsible leaders who are looking to fill a position essential to our democratic process.
We will have the ability to choose our clerk-recorder in 2022. And we will have the opportunity to flip the board majority and mitigate the irresponsible and self-serving decisions made by these conservative supervisors. And that is exactly what we need to do!
Kimberly Gravell
Nipomo
This article appears in Jul 22-29, 2021.
Why the insistence that only one specific candidate is acceptable to be Clerk/Recorder? It is customary and best practices to consider a number of candidates to find the best, especially since the incumbent is likely to win the position in the next election. And supporting this in the name of “fiscal conservatism” is laughable coming from a bunch of lefties who usually love to spend money like drunken sailors. Would you have advocated cancelling the hugely expensive 2020 presidential election to save money? Having a dozen of your friends write letters in support of your scheme is hardly the sort of upswelling of public that the Board of Supervisors should feel obligated to obey.
I think the Democrat Party is up to no good again.
All we need to know about this issue is this: Peschong, Arnold & Compton are all Trump devotees, members of the MAGA cult, loyal to a depraved psychopathic beast who has said that “Hitler did a lot of good things.” How can anyone imagine that
this trio of nihilists care anything about country governance?
Why would one oppose finding the best talent possible to fill an open position? As with all things, government should insist on competitive consideration to provide the best value for the citizens.