Throughout the race for Clackamas County Chair, I have described my view that the current leadership of John Ludlow, in collaboration with Jim Bernard, has created a dysfunctional majority and embedded a toxic and ego-driven culture on the Clackamas County Commission. The current leadership prioritizes rigid partisanship over actual solutions to the problems affecting our citizens.

The signature of this toxic culture is personal attacks that frequently have no basis in reality, unfounded criticisms and other behaviors that lack even the basic level of decency we …