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We’re widening up who politics is for and how it's serving the community, and how it sees the community.
Making decisions that are based on what is best for the people of Deschutes County is not a place where I think decisions have been made from, oftentimes in the past, in the space. Now When I come to the table, I’m thinking about the person who is stocking the shelves at the grocery store, the person who is in Environmental Services at the hospital. These are people that are directly impacted by our choices, and it seems when decisions are made, they're never from that perspective and almost always the people who come out on the short-end are people who don't have the time to contribute to politics. They don't have the time because they're working so hard. They don't have access to that system. They wouldn’t know how to engage, even if they could.
We found her the most decisive of the candidates on some of the issues, including how to find some measure of accountability for a sheriff’s office that’s long gone off the rails.
Considering that some of the lingering issues the County is tackling seem to stem from a measure of wishy-washiness...we think that decisiveness is needed.
our support in this race goes to Page.
Amanda’s values of centering children, the environment and healthcare are consistently demonstrated in her life, career and service. Amanda Page is as Oregon as a candidate can get.
Amanda Page is a dedicated flight paramedic and understands the challenges of rural healthcare after 20 years as a first responder. As a twice-elected Redmond School Board Director, she took immediate action to correct politically-driven decisions made by the previously conservative board. Amanda is not only a working parent, but she spends her free time as a public servant and community leader.
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