Santa Barbara County’s 3rd District needs bold new leadership. Take a look around at our public spaces, roads, and bridges. The disrespect and disrepair is evident. Lackluster leadership has left us with conditions that resemble third world nations.
Let’s put a person in charge with an engineering background and a backbone, to stand up and reason with others. He won’t let projects stall and won’t let the public good get buried in bureaucracy. He has common sense.
Bruce Porter can cut through to the heart of the problem and find ways to move forward without alienating everyone in the process. I’ve personally seen Bruce’s success in our Santa Ynez Valley High School. Our old infrastructure from 1936 was failing. Under his board leadership the school successfully passed a much-needed bond to make the school safe again.
We need a strong person representing our 3rd District. Someone who believes in education, the common good of our citizens, has a positive attitude, and a background of getting things done.
Please consider Bruce Porter, the man that gets along with people, to be our new Santa Barbara County 3rd District Supervisor. Don’t forget to vote!
Christine Burtness
Santa Ynez
This article appears in Feb 27 – Mar 5, 2020.