Toepper for change
It seems we are powerless to roll back the current dynamic.
A lower middle-class county, median household income of $50,000, forced to pay governor-sized salaries to public administrators at every level.
State, county, city, port, hospital and now, at our 19,500 customer-based utility.
The official justification is that we have to pay good wages to get good help.
However, little changes in terms of improvement in our daily lives.
A lot changes in the accelerated drain on our household budgets.
What’s missing here?
Phenomenally paid administrators don’t feel the pinch themselves.
For them, it’s ink on paper, numbers to be crunched, which may or may not require further analysis.
For us, it’s choosing between dentistry and the water bill.
Buying non-organic food rather than organic.
Shopping at the grocery store or going to the food bank.
The choices are very stark for the average Jefferson County resident.
The change we can effect here at home is limited by constructs of artifice that distance us from the administrators who determine our present and future existence.
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I will vote for Dan Toepper for PUD commissioner because he is not of this mindset.
For almost five years he has been authentically engaged, county-wide, in a sincere effort to include voices of the common man/woman into PUD deliberations and policy.
I find that most refreshing.
Annette Huenke,
Port Townsend