Supervisors' Election: What Issues Matter to You?

1. RMP has no money. RMP is "paying" with stock that has no monetary value. Is this fraud?

2. How is the County going to recoup the costs of the lawsuit from RMP?

3. Knowing RMP "unscrupulously altered" a lease agreement in made with the County in 2003, and that Condren falsified much of the information about his professional background and education how will you vote if the RMP project comes before you?

4. Some people have said that the RMP was never about building a motorsports park. It was about getting the land rezoned out of agriculture so it would be worth more money on resale. Now that it is public knowledge Conderen does not have the funding for the RMP how hard are you going to work on getting the land zoned back to agriculture where it belongs?

5. The City of Livingston/Ranchwood Homes violated CEQA law with the construction of a 42-inch sewer trunk line through County prime agricultural land. The Merced County Board of Supervisors has been impotent on protecting the agricultural land against this huge growth-inducing development. Will you continue to remain impotent or will you stand up and protect agricultural land?

6.Where do you think the water is going to come from for that 42-inch line? Livingston has a water supply deficency?

7.How important is agricultural in Merced County to you? How are you going to work to protect this resource against development?

8.What is your plan for agriculture?

9. What is your plan to protect our water supply? What steps do you plan on taking to rebuild our shrinking water table?

10. Have you had any business dealings or gifts from developers? What is your affiliation to Ranchwood Homes and other developers?   

11. How are you going to see that the laws in our County are followed?

12. What checks and balances are you going to implement? How are you going to bring integrity to the office?

13. Who will influence your decision more the developers who flash around money and make a quick profit or the public who love their community and who have worked and lived here for many years/generations?

14. Los Banos has been over developed. There has been a great loss of farmland. The development is getting close to the wetlands. Are you going to vote for more development or to preserve our natrual resources?

15. What is going on in Planada and how are you going to protect its agricultural land?

16. Why are you running? What do you want your voting record to show about your character? How will your voting record reflect your priorities for our County? What are your priorities for our County?

17. How are you going to end the collusion between our governing officials and developers? 

how about how they feel about corruption. Also throw in how they feel they deserve to make as much as a superior court judge and have the retirement benefit they do. What is it, $20,000 at retirement after 10 years of service? Especially when our roads are so bad and our county is among the poorest in the US of A. I don't know, can Loose Lips do a "award winning" story on that? It seems like the STun Star brought it up once and that was it. I know Pedrozo and he didn't go get a degree so how is he making the same amount as a judge?

How they feel about spilling some sunshine on how our county government works? Too many closed session meetings take place in Merced. Just read we had 3000 cases last year requiring use of county counsel.

Preservation of farmland is number one.

Their stance on growth. Will they support a limit on new subdivisions to preclude an over-build like the one we just experienced.