{"id":7180,"date":"2012-09-27T11:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2012-09-27T22:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T05:59:03","slug":"denny-hamilton-9-26-12-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/denny-hamilton-9-26-12-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamilton 9-26-12 Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Green Facilitator<\/p><\/div>\n

Denny Hamilton wants to preserve what’s good about Mason County–including its forests, air quality, waters, bays, and estuaries. He’s running to be elected as Mason County Commissioner in Dist. 1. He has lived in the Belfair area (Tiger Lake) with his wife since approximately 1996. He’s a professional facilitator, good listener, well traveled (80 countries) internationally experienced (after years of working for the U.N. and having joined the Peace Corps in 1978) Fire Dist. 2 commissioner actively involved with his community. His delightful personality and ability to bring factions together led to his neighbors asking him to run for Mason County Commissioner.<\/p>\n

Except for Mr. Hamilton’s elected position in his fire district, he has not held elected office previously. But he has held many public posts in his career. He holds a 4 year college degree (Central WA. University), was raised on a farm in eastern Washington, and sounds well informed\/educated. He hopes to help fashion a unifying vision for the County’s future–what residents want it to be. He’d like Mason to be a charter County, were it eligible (which it isn’t, due to insufficient population).<\/p>\n

Hamilton does not renounce the concept of hiring a County Manager (ala Herb Baze!) though he argues the salary for one should be paid for out of that which the County Commissioners receive. Some voters may recall the previous County manager, hired on Herb Baze’s watch as Commissioner, was terminated when Tim Sheldon took office. Although Baze held creating the position was one of his major accomplishments as Commissioner, it contributed to his defeat by Sheldon. A mass mailing ridiculed Baze and his fellow Commissioners for their salary received while delegating their elected responsibilities to a hireling originally invited to move here by Mary Jo Cady (a previous Commissioner). Denny likes the concept of having an *elected* County manager. Somehow, it’s dubious the other Commissioners would voluntarily reduce their own salaries to fully pay for such a position.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hamilton’s other planks in his electoral platform are as follows:<\/p>\n

Improving the Job Situation: Getting more people back to work and facilitating the creation of more jobs and small businesses.<\/p>\n

Protecting the Environment: Maintaining and protecting our salt water, fresh water, forest, mountain and tidal environments.<\/p>\n

Working Together: Facilitating and encouraging dialogue among our businesses, community groups, government agencies and community organizations.<\/p>\n

Enhancing Emergency Preparedness: Helping our community prepare for, respond to and recover from potential emergencies.<\/p>\n

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Norm Dicks endorses Hamilton<\/p><\/div>\n

Norm Dicks (U.S. Congressman), Kathy Haigh (State Rep, 35th), Fred Finn (State Rep, 35th), Bill Eickmeyer (former 35th rep), Jeff Davis (Olympia Port Commissioner), Jean Farmer (Port of Allyn Commissioner), Mark Biggs, Mason Co. Democrats, N. Mason Education Assoc., SEIU Local 775, and Terri Thompson (among others) have all endorsed Denny Hamilton for County Commissioner.<\/p>\n

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Denny Greets Constituents<\/p><\/div>\n

Other supporters include:
\nAndrea Abruzzo
\nThomas Armstrong
\nAdrienne Amar
\nGeorge Anthony D\u2019Angelo
\nLinda Archambeau
\nCathi Bailey-Bright
\nMark Biggs
\nStacia Bilsland
\nAnn Blaker
\nKen Boad
\nLaura Boad
\nDale Bright
\nMary Brooner
\nAllan Brotche
\nChris Brotche
\nIrmgard E Bruser
\nLewis Bruser
\nAnn Cacciari
\nJohn A. Campbell
\nJudy Canahuati
\nClaudia Chang
\nBob Chilton
\nMary Chilton
\nLynn M Coffman
\nMel R. Coffman
\nBarbara Coombs
\nSunny\u00a0 M. Cotey
\nCynthia K Cruver
\nIna Culberson
\nJefferson Davis
\nJudith Davis
\nWarren C. Dawes
\nNorm Dicks
\nAnne Dowhie
\nWilson Durhan
\nWilliam Eickmeyer
\nDonald M Emmons
\nBeth Enos
\nJean Farmer
\nTom Farmer
\nClint Ferrara
\nPaula Ferrara
\nLarry Fox-Burr
\nJo Fox-Burr
\nFrederick W. Finn
\nBarbara W Finn
\nRoss Gallagher
\nCathy Gallagher
\nPaul J. Giannone
\nJeff Gislason
\nBarbara J. Goodell
\nDaniel L Goodell
\nSusan Gunn
\nWendell Gunn
\nMary Gunn
\nKelly Gunn
\nMargaret Hager
\nRobert W. Hager
\nKatherine Haigh
\nLavada Hamilton
\nJohn Hannah
\nMendy Harlow
\nPaul T. Harmon
\nNancy Z. Hartung
\nMonna Haugen
\nDavid Haugen
\nCarol Hepburn
\nJennifer Hendrickson
\nMr. Robert L. Herr
\nKarri Hohmann
\nWilliam Hoke
\nLaura Holder
\nNancy Hopkins
\nJoy E. Hulbert
\nRose L. Hunter-Valentine
\nConstance Ibsen
\nTamra A. Ingwaldson
\nDebra Jamerson
\nRon Jamerson
\nRandy James
\nMatthew Johnson
\nBert Johnson
\nMartha Lynn Johnson
\nGilbert Johnston
\nSharon Johnston
\nIvan Jones
\nSally Jones
\nVivien Junkin
\nJudith H Katz
\nColleen Koeski
\nRaymond L. Kronquist
\nJennifer Landreth
\nDustin Lambro
\nJoseph Lendvai
\nSharon Lendvai
\nRobert Lewis
\nAndrea Love
\nPatti L Lowery
\nFay Marley-Clark
\nVirginia B. McKinney
\nWilliam\u00a0 Marquez
\nJudith W. Matchett
\nWilliam\u00a0 H. Matchett
\nCandace McGuire
\nFrank Merrill
\nRebecca Merrill
\nMary Minnis
\nJoe Monten
\nMary Monten
\nMichael D. Mosbarger
\nBob Moyer
\nFran Moyer
\nLaurel Nelson-King
\nJill Neumeister
\nVaughn Neumeister
\nMichael N. O\u2019Day
\nArthur D. O\u2019Neal
\nDiane G. O\u2019Neal
\nBrandon Palmer
\nBarbara Parsloe
\nThomas Parsloe
\nScott Peterson
\nJohn Piety
\nKatherine A. Price
\nPatricia Proulx
\nBrooke L. Quigley
\nJo Reasons
\nRoslynne Reed
\nClyde R. Roberts
\nRoy Rocchi
\nGeorge Roush
\nMichael Rowloff
\nDan Roy
\nVern\u00a0 Rutter
\nFlavia Ruykosky
\nDouglas Sayan
\nMarilyn Sayan
\nElin Schilling
\nJoan R. Schwarz
\nMichael Siptroth
\nCassie M Smith
\nJanice Snoey
\nJoe L. Snyder
\nDaniel K. Staley Jr.
\nSheri V Staley
\nGene D. Stevens
\nDanny Stusser
\nDaniel Teisan
\nElizabeth Teisan
\nJerry Teisan
\nGregory Teisan
\nSally Theder
\nLinda Thomson
\nMark Thompson
\nTerri Thompson
\nPaul Vandehay
\nPat Vandehay
\nGuyla Vann
\nPatricia Vincent
\nJoseph Vincent
\nMary Walden
\nConley Watson
\nMandy Wendell
\nBruce G. Weniger
\nRebecca Westby
\nMike Westermann
\nBetty Wing
\nPaul Wing
\nDebbie Wing
\nTimothy H. Wing
\nPhil Wolff
\nRossaline Y. Woodhouse
\nBruce Woolman
\nBill Wright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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