It insults my intelligence when candidates who are running for office bring up the same list of tired issues without doing any research on their current status. Don’t they notice there’s a superstar in office who is checking off all those old perennial issues that were too big, too complex, too costly, too hard to tackle? And she’s just begun!

Jessica Pyska has brought a whole new level of smarts, energy, collaboration, and plain old hard work to make enormous progress on disaster mitigation (yes, that’s fire protection and much more), a detailed plan for more housing and speeding up road maintenance, updating decades-old general and area plans so we can build the Lake County we want to see in the future, and landing several pilot projects that will lead to better jobs for locals, and much more.

If you are a candidate who hasn’t spent any time doing the research, what hope do we have that you are prepared in any way for the job of supervisor?

I am making my voting decision based on what the current officer holder has accomplished. It’s the best indicator of their performance once re-elected. And by any measurement, Jessica’s second term will be even more spectacular.

I am all in on reelecting Jessica Pyska for District 5 supervisor.

Hannah Lee lives in Kelseyville, California.