Josephine County Commission Position 3
How disappointing. In the race for Josephine County Commissioner Position 3 we are left to choose between Dwight Ellis and Jack “Auto Doc” Brown. There will be a run off election between these two top vote getters in November. Ellis was unable to win the election outright with a majority of the vote. This race ended up much tighter than Position 2. (More on that later.) Ellis won 31.84% of the vote and Brown 28.27%.
As a voter, this puts me between a rock and a hard place. John Makepeace, my preferred choice, just missed out by a hair, coming in third with 26.83% of the vote.
Brown has been endorsed by sitting commissioner Jim Raffenburg who also endorsed Paul Walter for Position 2. Uh oh. That is not a good sign. Brown is also chairman of the “Constitution Party of Oregon” and is a vocal activist in the fight against marriage and civil union rights for Oregon gays.
On the other hand we have Ellis, who ran for re-election after saying during his first campaign that he would only serve one term. (I don’t have a source on this. This is based on my memory. If you know of a source, please let me know.) When Ellis decided to run for re-election this year, he said the reason was because there was “more work to do.” (Again, this is from memory.) What a cop out. There will always be more work to do so that is a meaningless reason to go back on his word. I don’t know if Ellis saying he’d only serve for one term was a campaign promise or not, but either way, he should have stood behind what he said.
Based on the alternative, though, I’m left with no other choice than to vote for Ellis in November.
Tags: county commissioner, josephine county, oregon
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September 19, 2008 at 7:44 am
I encourage you to take another look at Mr. Brown or better yet, listen to him speak. He is a well versed on the US Constitution and on limited federal government…things that every American should value.
Thanks,
Jill