ARNE MORTENSEN

Cowlitz County Commissioner

District 1

Accountability Responsibility

Arne Mortensen

Transparency

email:

phone: 360-562-0471

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

-Thomas Jefferson

What Commissioners should NOT do:

Let departments drive the demand for resources
Let specific interests drive the consumption of resources
Initiate programs without verifiable overwhelming public buy in
Search for ways to take more money from you via taxes, fees, and any non-voluntary method
Accede to bureaucratic demands/mandates that infringe on property rights
Interpret that minimal public feedback means acceptance by the public

What I will do as your commissioner:

MANAGE the departments
- as if it were my own money
- recognize that ALL of the people are my customers
REJECT new regulations, new fees, new revenue streams without a mandate from the people
DEFEND individual liberty and property rights
MANAGE to a budget and proper priorities
IMPROVE visibility into the workings of the administration
HIGHLIGHT all issues of consequence and eliminate hidden agendas