Memo to our clueless commissioner chair: Steve "Cold, hard cash" Stuart - Stop "fielding calls."

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Look, we get that you want to slam 65,000 commuters with a $1300 fee every year for going to work, a potentially stunning blow to low income workers and hundreds of single moms; we get that you're a lame duck commissioner.... we get that.

But instead of "fielding a few calls," why wasn't county government prepared for this bizarre turn of events concerning measures 66 and 67?

Why didn't we have a plan in place; a plan to execute to actively go across the river and RECRUIT businesses? In short, Stuart: why aren't you being PRO-ACTIVE instead of REACTIVE?

A few days before the ballots were counted, Phil Nike made it clear that he is very unhappy. How much more of a clue did you need? Or weren't you paying attention?

I realize vision like that is outside your particular box, as are most items in government that actually respond to the needs of the people.

But "fielding calls" simply isn't good enough. And if you had a clue, you also would have had a business recruitment team in place and ready to go, to begin the process of doing to Oregon what they've been doing to us for decades.

I can't WAIT until the next election.
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