PD Round up of 5th district Candidates

[Barry]

The PD recently published a good roundup of all the candidates for the 5th District Supervisor here

It's the first good coverage of Tom Lynch (although he's been kind enough to speak for himself here on WaccoBB), Marion Chase and Tim Sergent that I've seen. I don't think Marion and Tim will be strong candidates.

The whole article is worth a read, but here are some highlights:

Noreen Evans

Evans has earned early support from key environmental and labor groups. She has endorsements from the Sierra Club and Sonoma County Conservation Action, the largest local environmental group. She received last month the maximum donation of $2,894 from the Service Employees’ International Union Local 1021, which represents the largest unionized group of county employees. The union also has endorsed her.
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Evans said she supports rent control and other tenant protections, including measures to guard against wrongful evictions.

Her platform also includes a plan she has dubbed “Pot for Potholes,” which would tax and regulate medical marijuana sales at the local level to generate money for road repairs.

Lynda Hopkins

Among her priorities is a move to alleviate the county’s housing crunch by allowing homeowners to add second units to their homes. She wants to reduce permitting fees to promote new housing construction and is in favor of creating a government-backed fund to assist first-time home buyers and renters.

To address homelessness, she has proposed setting up government-sanctioned camps across the county, offering vacant land as tent sites for those without shelter, similar to what the county has allowed in the former Dollar Tree parking lot off Sebastopol Road in Roseland.
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Gore endorsed Hopkins in February. Other endorsements include the Sonoma County Farm Bureau and the Sonoma County Alliance, the county’s largest business organization. Her early financial supporters include real estate investor Larry Wassem and Tony Crabb and Barbara Grasseschi, owners of Puma Springs Vineyards in Alexander Valley. Crabb also donated to Gore and to Carrillo’s 2012 campaign.
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In the latest filing period, the California Real Estate political action committee — the political fundraising arm of the California Association of Realtors — last month donated the maximum $2,894 to her campaign. The state group is the parent organization for the North Bay Association of Realtors, which opposes rent control and policies aimed at curbing landlords’ discretion on eviction proceedings.