Randy Sanne, candidate for commissioner position number one and Mark McKelvey, candidate for position number two will be available to answer questions tonight at the Coquille Community Center at 6:30PM. This will be your opportunity to ask questions unfettered by the typical forum limitations of time constraints and moderation and to let them know what you expect from a commissioner before they will earn your vote.
UPDATE Tonight’s meeting was well attended and included two additional candidates, Don Gurney and Rickey Wiley both vying for position number three and probably the best indicator of the gathering went is that the meeting was cut short when everyone had to leave at 9 PM. After brief introductions the floor was opened up to questions and the questions and answers may well have gone on much longer but for the time constraints on the venue. We learned that McKelvey and Sanne, who are not running for the same seats, have different views on a county administrator but seem to agree on public meetings law and government transparency. Topics ranged from LNG to wave energy to the solid waste department and we definitely learned a great deal about solid waste. One very interesting tidbit learned is that the department has already separated enough metal from the ash trench last summer to have repaid the $400K cost of the metal shaker equipment. So how has the county booked that money and why have they idled the shaker now?
McKelvey believes that LNG can be a means to fund a container dock for the Port of Coos Bay but says he would not sacrifice the environment to build Jordan Cove. He also believes that a 36″ pipe can be run through Haynes Inlet without disrupting the bay. McKelvey took heat from the audience for supporting the Jordan Cove facility despite his admission that very few locals would find employment as a result of the project.
Neither Sanne nor McKelvey thought much of the proposal to have volunteer commissioners to fund a paid administrator, although McKelvey was open to the idea of having an administrator.
Sanne reiterated his belief that the county can balance its budget with judicious use of the forest fund, re-organizing the budget and allowing for the annual 3% increase. Time constraints didn’t allow him to elaborate on the plan tonight but it is available at his website, RandySanne,com
@ Ima, thanks for the info. You seem pretty up to date on most of these candidates.
Your input is appreciated.
Dear Reminder, I remembered the others. Gaston and Wiley position re SCDC is unknown. Gurney and Beebe are opposed. Pennie is one strange dude. And, if the Internet traffic re the assessor office candidates is accurate, watch out. Some folks are saying that Mr. Steele is former assessor office employee who was fired for cause. We do know that he got a wrist slap from the state in 2010 for doing something.
Dear Reminder, I can’t remember all 15 candidates; but, Mr. Sweet is former leader of SCDC; Tim Bishop is former head of Chamber IBO and joined at the hip with SCDC. Cribbins is political appointee of the McKeown’s, and there are no bigger supporters of SCDC than the McKeown’s. Loiselle and Geno were open minded at the last election. Walworth tried to kill Geno when he no longer had reason to kill Stfflebean or Steve Pickering. Pickering took more Walworth bullshit6 than he should have. Vincent is a total unknown. PS – dont goof when goig to the posted Sanne web site. A photo of my wife 30 years ago is at sanne.com.
Its apparent Randy has no affiliation with SCDC. They are going to put their hatchets to his candidacy very soon.
The other two positions are going to be a little harder to ferret out the SCDC supporters and posers. This site is going to be of immense help in determining who’s who. The sooner the better, so we can all start passing the word on who’s worthy or not, to support.
Randy Sanne will be in Lakeside this weekend and North Bend the following weekend if you want to speak to him. Here is the rest of his schedule so far
http://randysanne.com/wp/events/
I’m all for sharing any pertinent information that will help align my vote with candidates, who I feel best represents the majority of our population. Mark will put all his efforts to supporting the status quo (SCDC). If the goal is to depopulate this region for the timber, mining and coal/LNG interests, then Marks your man. I just hope there are some candidates running who don’t align themselves with the goals of SCDC.
SCDC has never wanted a vote of the people to approve their agenda. With enough info maybe we can determine if there is any candidate running for office, opposing their plans, and thereby give them our “unwanted” vote.
Dear Reminder, I post this because, as MGX is aware, your friend Mark M was never RU Serious. RU Serious is known to me. Mr. M has folks taking shots at him for other reasons, some that have caused me to already remove him from my list of maybe candidates.
And when Markm was posting at this site as RUserious, he slammed Sandra Messerle as a welfare queen and called the worldlink a bird cage liner. It appears he has flipped and flopped.
Thanks for the update.
Don’t expect MarkM to vary from the path set forth by SCDC. He has swallowed their bait, hook, line, and sinker.
I do hope someone asks Mark what he would have done after hearing the Solid Waste reps. speak at the BOC meeting, oops, Mark doesn’t attend BOC meetings, I’ve NEVER seen him there. So why bother Mark? If you don’t have time to attend even ONE BOC meeting, how are we supposed to think you have time to BE one? Mark needs to explain EXACTLY what his position is that allows him to be “The Progressive Voice of Coos County”, he sounds like every damn Republican in this state. I’d like to know which position entitles him to call himself PROGRESSIVE. I haven’t seen it. He defends dirty coal, LNG, confiscation of private property for foreign profit, but he wants to spray blue goo on the coal first. I see nothing to believe Mark is just so much more of the same crap that runs this county as long as I’ve been here. Not a hair’s breath of difference. If you want MORE OF THE SAME BS, THEN VOTE FOR MARK.