Editor’s note: The following is a letter to the editor. The opinions expressed in this letter are those of the writer, and do not necessarily reflect those of The Mendocino Voice. If you would like to submit a letter to the editor feel free to write to info@mendovoice.com.
Dear Editor:
As Mendocino County enters another election, we face a simple question: does the incumbent reflect our values, and is he accountable to the people he serves? Trust is earned through actions—listening, showing up, respecting public input, and protecting the services and neighborhoods that keep our communities strong.
Promises aren’t enough. Check the record:
- Support local families—yet suggest selling Bower Park in Gualala.
- Support veterans—yet move Veterans services out of its Ukiah building
- Value public input—yet propose disbanding the six county-supported Municipal Advisory Councils.
- Suggest fire prevention matters—yet neglect the local businesses that generate sales tax revenue that funds Measure P.
- Value county employees—yet
- Suspend Ms. Cubbison, an elected official, without due process and without pay
- Offer employees $25k to leave the county work force
- Combine the Auditor Controller/Treasurer/Tax Collector departments
- Ignore four Grand Jury Reports that identify poor working conditions in Health and Human Services
- Downsize essential county operations that directly impact tax collection, road maintenance, and permit processing.
- Support workforce housing—yet allow outside and corporate takeover of available housing stock to create short-term rental empires.
The pattern is familiar: decisions without real dialogue, concerns answered at a distance, and communities told to accept less.
- “What are you willing to give up for the services you desire?”
- Absentee representation instead of face-to-face accountability.
- Suggesting the county is headed towards bankruptcy or mirroring the financial challenges facing the City of Willits
Now you have a choice. Don’t reward contradictions. Do you feel confident in the incumbent’s leadership? Or vote for leadership that shows up, listens, respects public input, and together we’ll bring a practical plan to protect county services and the quality of life in Mendocino County. Tell five friends to vote in the June 2 primary election.
Kevin Evans, candidate for District 5
Anchor Bay
Look up THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPAL POLICY.
It is a MENDOCINO COUNTY POLICY.
Before a dime is spent, a person is hired, buildings are maintained, MOUs are agreed too the item is to be fully vetted by the BOS. Not heads, not individuals. They are to fiscally review, look at options, work needed and decide. Seems this policy has been kicked down the road. Forgotten, overlooked but initiated due to fraud, fiscal ignorance and outright ineptness. When new members come on board please get going!
People before profits
Katie Porter. She is someone the BOS could emulate. Get your white boards out
Are you kidding me?
“People before profits” sounds great until the bills, staffing shortages, and patient wait times hit reality. Running healthcare on slogans and whiteboards is a lot easier than actually balancing budgets, retaining doctors, and keeping services open. Katie Porter is good at viral soundbites — governing and managing complex systems is a little more complicated than a classroom presentation.
While I don’t think Ted Williams has been the best supervisor, he has been better than all others that have cycled through during his tenure. The ones who oversaw the deliberate destruction of local cannabis policy and therefore the industry have all retired and moved on. Property values inland have suffered since. Tax revenues are down. The county is still hundreds of millions short on road maintenance. No one sane should move here to work and raise a family. It’s a backwater dead end with bad roads and bad internet. There’s no job creation. Cubbison was and still is bad at her job. Most board members are weak in face of our public safety bullies like Eyster. They have pet projects not because they are good ideas but because they have friends who want favors. Some department heads are petty and thin skinned. Our CEO has been more concerned with crafting public and board policy than monitoring the departments she has responsibility to. Without help from all stakeholders the board gets nothing done. This guy can point out flaws and promise change but change requires consensus building and teamwork which is hard to come by in the departments themselves and among board members. The county is in a doom loop because of ego driven leadership that has become untenable. Knee jerk ideologies control a couple of our current supervisors and they fail to see what’s best because they see political party consistency as more important. Gualala should just ask Sonoma County to annex them.
Ted has been a consistent voice of reason and tried to get the rest of the apple dumpling gang not to kill the golden goose
but in typical shitkicker and purity police form they got what they wanted which is
no
and when all you agree on is
no
nothing is what you get
the bos always snatches defeat from the jaws of victory
the state should take receivership of the county
which Ted has suggested btw
fire the entitled county workers and start over
go there any try to do something
anything
they care more about thier pathetic jobs than anything else
sad
Nothing would make me happier than for them to start over again making Ted Williams the first one to go.
Empire cares about inefficiency. if you want an example of how politics actually work
in this country, Mendocino County is a shining example.
TED WILLIAMS has been a great supervisor for District 5. I have lived in the 5th District for over 50 years. TED WILLIAMS is Consistent, Tireless in his defense of sensible productive decisions and a man of good character. He has been outvoted by the cabal of self-interested supervisors from the other districts who see District 5 as a cash cow to fund themselves.
Any vote for Evans and his hack job mentality would be a serious disservice to the residents and taxpayers of our district. Evans would be like having trump in your back yard.
Ted does a fine job in most aspects, although he gets a little inter-personally dramatic at times. Despite some mis-steps, specifically in the way he involved himself in the whole Cubbison thing, I think he is still probably the best person for the job.
I absolutely agree with you on so many of those things and I have asked the same questions when the crap has started here in Mendocino County. I listen to the people running for supervisor and I read all kinds of things about them to include their answers to questions from the newspaper. I am not impressed. I’m not saying they’re not good people but I am saying that evidently so we’re the ones that are bored of Supervisors members now before they got the job. In other words, they will say what you want to hear. This is nothing new it runs all through all political parties. Dig deep people before you put your vote in. It’s more important than you know