Bruce Porter is attacking 3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann
for a list of “broken promises.”
His mailer comes from the Porter for Supervisor campaign,
but there is nothing in it about why anyone should vote for Bruce
Porter. What does he stand for? What has he accomplished?
Instead, 3rd District voters are offered a list of false statements
about Joan Hartmann:
- Claim: The negotiated Camp 4 agreement has led to
lost revenue for local schools.
Fact: The Chumash Tribe has contributed $8.8 million
to educational and childhood programs in the district. School revenue losses
are the result of lost oil revenue from the 2015 oil pipeline rupture and
changes to state funding formulas. - Claim: Joan has neglected infrastructure, leading to
dangerous bridges and roads.
Fact: The Board of Supervisors has kept the 2015
commitment of allocating 18 percent of general revenue growth to maintaining
county facilities, parks, and roads on top of a baseline commitment. SB1
means the state will provide much more money for deferred maintenance. Road
maintenance will reach the board’s 2020 goal of $40 million. - Claim: Joan took cannabis money and then allowed
unfettered cannabis development.
Fact: Joan led the effort to institute a cap on
total acres cultivated countywide and to ban cultivation on small parcels. She
directed the Planning Commission to develop additional measures that would
resolve conflicts between traditional agriculture and cannabis, to further protect
urban-rural boundaries, and to prevent over concentration of cannabis
cultivation.
Enough lies, Mr. Porter. Or is this all you have to offer?