conversations and coverage
as another supporter said to me,
“I trust Amanda to always do the right thing, not to go along just to get along,” and I will add “and not just to get ahead.”
Amanda has the most well-rounded, pertinent work and life experience for this job, including emergency health services, education at local leadership and State levels, and cross-cultural leadership work. I stand for Amanda Page for Seat 3 on the County Commission, because,
I'm really interested in taking what is great about Bend, how we're able to attract tourists to this area, and [that] people want to live here, [to offset] the unfortunate byproduct that it's incredibly expensive.
It's not that we don't want people to come here or to hold off these investors. But if you're going to do it, you're going to profit off this area…it should also be helping maintain a community where people who do the work can still live here.
these systems are not built for everyone. They're built for a very specific set of people to be successful, and everyone else gets to survive.
We had a Democrat and Republican in our family, and so I've always kind of had my foot in both worlds and understood both worlds, and I feel like that's given me a unique set of skills to be able to talk to anyone.
I use that in my job, and now I hope to use it on County Commission to help find commonality because I think
there's a lot more in common that we have as working families,
then we have uncommon.
We've been pitted against each other, and things are made to be a battle.
We could expand on that [COIC] further and really bring it to a community level. Expanding to more community-based, adding positions from people who are from Powell Butte, from people who are from La Pine, getting more voices on those boards, I think would be incredibly helpful to understanding. You have to have the voices from those groups that are underrepresented, and I think a lot of that comes from community advocacy.
Community is the foundation of
a healthy government
Candidate Conversations event on Sunday, January 4th at Larkspur Community Center
driven by PCP and community-submitted questions prioritized via proportional ranked choice voting