Bandon Port Commission will remain unchanged with Rick Goche and Reg Pullen prevailing. The Airport District Board had one of the closest races but Jon Barton beat out Julia Johnson, 2,796 to 2,593 and Joe Benetti ran unopposed.
Read MoreCCAP wants to insert an administrator not to increase efficiencies or modernize the county, the administrator model is over a hundred years old in this country, they just want to be able to pitch schemes and poll the commission outside of public view. Their own version of the Manchurian Candidate.
Read MoreThe article even enables Jon Barton to make himself to look like an idiot.
Read MoreA political advertisement published in the Bandon Western World supporting Fred Messerle reveals a long list of supporters from the business and economic development community ranging from the chamber rats Al Pettit, Jon Barton and Timm Slater to Cal Mukumoto of the tribe’s CEDCO arm, Mary Schamehorn, editor of the Myrtle Point Herald and mayor of Bandon, Joe Benetti, Joseph Drew of ORC, Ron Stuntzner and more. These people may have something to gain by electing Fred Messerle as a commissioner but the rest of us do not.
Read MoreFred Messerle’s radio spots are airing in full force all thanks to donations from special interest groups and wealthy business owners. The Messerle campaign has also purchased at least one mobile electrified campaign sign in an organized effort to get him elected.
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