By Nicole Montesano • Staff Writer • 

Boyer favors focus on agriculture, livability

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CubFan

Barbara checks all the boxes for me. She's been a resident of this community for many years. She owns a farm and knows how important agriculture is to our area. She's the chair of the Yamhill Soil & Water Conservation District. My past experience with Barbara is that she truly DOES listen before making decisions. She opposes cap and trade. And her campaign is NOT supported by big out-of-town contributors. You get my vote Barbara!

yupjoe

Century Farm? Since 1942? She is from Connecticut. Her husband is from Oregon, but his family did not move to their current farm or even to the county until sometime in the 1940’s. That is only eighty years ago. It seems like stretching the truth to me.

yupjoe

Voting for Sheriff? That goes out the window if her 5-seat home rule comes, as Boyer would like. No. The BOC would pick a committee to pick the sheriff.

madmacs

Someone who has worked to make our county a better place for years VS a lobbyist hand picked and groomed by our ultra conservative Commissioner, who has never paid taxes in the county, and whose campaign is funded by groups outside the count. I know who I am voting for.

Raven

Barbara Boyer is the right person to join the Yamhill County Commissioner Board. She is a moderate and has strong ties to our community. She has demonstrated grace under fire and a humility that is rarely seen these days. Go Barbara!

Sponge

Try to get your facts straight, yupjoe. Going to a five-member home rule county does not necessarily eliminate the office of sheriff as an elected post. That would happen only if the voters approved such a provision in the charter. Not likely to happen. Check the other home rule counties to see how that plays out.

Bill B

While agriculture is important to our economy. The majority of our county's population are not farmers. We do not need another farmer on the BOC

tagup

Farmers are generally conservative business people...and likely reflect the values of the county....are you opposed to all farmers?....or just one?

Ramsey McPhillips

Bill B

You are correct, most folks live in YCs towns. However, they have their own town services... your own mayor, city council, police, schools, sanitation, road crews... when the urban growth boundary is up for review... it’s the city folks who decide. In essence, the BOC spends most of its time, spends most of its budget, and rules over most of the land for farmers... not the majority of the county population. The commissioners have nothing to do with the steel mill, evergreen, the colleges, Adec... all the big employers. You in the city, your governments deal with that. You get to vote for Commissioners that rule my life... Sheriff, the dump, the Quarry, the trail, the water shed, the constant threat of turning farms into Cul-de-sacs but I don’t get to vote for your overseers, mayors, city council, school boards.

I know I won’t change your mind but at least understand that
The commissioners are the farmers elected official far more than they are yours. Farming is YC biggest economic driver and it helps to have farmers making the decisions in unincorporated parts of the county.

Don’t get me wrong, commissioners do affect the towns but it’s a fraction of their job description and work product.

Bill B

Ramsey McPhillips

Thank you for taking the time to express your perspective on the difference in living outside a municipality versus those of us living in one from a government standpoint. I really hadn't looked at it that way. You have given me some food for thought.

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