Editor,

Does hospital commissioner Georgia Gardner deserve reelection? I think not. Ms. Gardner supports the efforts of the anti-Navy group that wants to close down the Navy base that brings 88 percent of all economic to Island County.

Seems strange she expects your vote even though, if the group she supports were successful, preventing carrier jet training thereby forcing base closure thus putting your job at extreme risk if most of Island County’s economic activity vanished.

Do you really want someone in office that apparently is not concerned if you lost your job or if the community went into a dire depression?

Everyone supporting shutting down carrier jet training is either heartless towards the community’s economic welfare or does not evaluate realistically the Navy’s ability to remain locally if they were not allowed to train for carrier landings at Outlying Field Coupeville.

Secondly, do you find it strange that Ms. Gardner voted to support every action the hospital staff brought before the hospital board during all her years in office? While the hospital administrator may be good, I don’t believe any administrator hits the mark 100 percent of the time.

Ms. Gardner either only wants more of the same or she does not or is not capable of putting in individual research to determine the value and all consequences of actions hospital leadership staff wants.

Rob Born is the candidate that is capable and does put in that extra effort of outside study to property evaluate staff request. Don’t you wish the Island Transit board had done their homework?

Rob will.

It’s time to get new personalities and abilities on the hospital board. Do you want to reelect just another robot? If yes, vote Ms. Gardner. If you want independent thought, Rob Born is the person capable of such independent skills.

Vote Rob Born.

Mac McDowell

Oak Harbor