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    ARNE'S BLOG!

    “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 verifiable 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

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      ARNE MORTENSEN

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       email:   dracjm48@gmail.com
       phone:  360-562-0471
    Cowlitz County Commissioner
    District 1
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