Tiffany Edwards Hunt running for Council

[DaVinci]

Tiffany seems to have a lot of supporters. I was at the forum last night also (saw you there Rob! Hi!) Rene throws a great party, doesn't she? Turnout was impressive, and the questions were what you'd expect: GMO, geothermal, green waste, invasives... Puna issues. But the candidates on the whole were very disappointing. The whole show left me with the feeling (again) that I wish Rene herself was running. Can we draft her? I asked her once back in January, but she declined.

Tiffany is a sharp kid, and her heart seems to be in the right place, but her positions aren't. She's ready to talk about trash whenever you like, and her enthusiasm seems boundless, but she talks about trash the way Daniel Cunningham talks about hemp, as if it could solve every problem in Puna and it just can't. That's not really fair, because Daniel did spin off into creating a biodome in the ocean where we all could go live without government... Tiffany stayed a little closer to Earth, but we don't need bits of glass and rubber to build roads, we need asphalt. And money. And she (Tiffany) seemed resigned to geothermal development... "It's here, what ya gonna do about it?" And practically uninterested in GMO. I'd like to hear her speak passionately about something else besides transfer stations and green waste.

I was more impressed by Frances Pueo. Her actual positions were clearly progressive, and her grasp of the issues facing Puna was substantial. She seems well informed and thoughtful. No brochures though, and no visible campaign to speak of, so I don't see how she can possibly compete with Tiffany.

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