WENDY ROBERTS of Mendocino was the featured Supervisor Candidate on UkiahValley.tv last week. Ms. Roberts dismissed opponent Dan Hamburg as a one issue (pot) candidate with a casual, “Dan Hamburg obviously has his own constituency.” Then she brushed aside candidate Jim Mastin by pointing out that Mastin (like Hamburg) is from Ukiah, implying that Mastin’s not really a Fifth District person. Ms. Roberts, a Stanford grad, says she’s “worked on public school projects around the county,” an experience which gives her “a broader perspective” than, presumably, her Ukiah-bound opponents. She has a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) and undergraduate degrees in Communications and Psychology. “Those skills would come in very handy,” she said. Ms. Roberts then rattled off a few statements about local job loss, investment revenue loss, and declining retirement incomes while making it clear that she’s against any new taxes. “I don’t see much opportunity for squeezing more revenue out of the populous,” the candidate said. “It just isn’t a viable option.” Ms. Roberts wants the County to be more business friendly. “The County has been raising fees,” Roberts went on. “Every time you do that you’re cutting off the economy and restraining it from growing. So I think the best things the County could do would be working on trying to support the private sector to generate new jobs and specifically things like streamlining the permit process, working with, hopefully, some federal funding to get broadband access around the county.”

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