Will Purser, Clallam County Public Utility District commissioner and board chairman, is too valuable an asset to not be re-elected.
In 2014, after 45 years in the utility industry, my wife and I retired in Sequim.
During my career, we lived in five western states where I managed two community for-profit utilities, one PUD and four electric cooperatives.
I was also privileged to have served on a community school board, a college board of trustees, two hospital boards and a county planning commission.
I hope my experience serves to validate this endorsement.
Given the breadth of my career and continued industry interests, I chose to run for commissioner in 2016 against Will Purser.
Unfortunately, for personal reasons, I reluctantly withdrew.
Nevertheless, I’ve attended almost every PUD board meeting since 2016.
His opponent, Ken Hays, is a bit of a Johnny-Come-Lately to the PUD. He may have been an adequate small-town mayor and credentialed architect, he is just another recycled local politician searching for another seat.
Clallam PUD’s future on the North Olympic Peninsula is way too important to allow on the job training when years of proven expertise are at the helm with Will Purser.
PUD customers should be grateful a person of Will Purser’s expertise, intelligence and character, who has selflessly given 22 years to Clallam PUD, is willing to serve another term.
I endorse Will Purser with gratitude for years of service past and future.
Please join me; vote Will Purser.
Werner Buehler
Sequim