The critical campaign to elect the doc and the cop; Richard Powers and Dennis Colthust, to the Palm Drive District Board, recently released a new video, in which both candidates appear. Please check it our, and share it:
Progressive Sebastopol enthusiastically endorses Powers and Colthurst in this little known, but highly important contest. Here is what we wrote about it for a flyer we are distributing:
To Open Our Hospital Elect Dennis Colthurst and Richard Powers for Palm Drive District Board
Progressive Sebastopol supports longtime community doctor Richard Powers and retired police officer Dennis Colthurst, for the very important Palm Drive District Board contest on Election Day, November 4.
Powers and Colthurst are running to create a new Palm Drive District Board majority that is committed to reopening Palm Drive with a financially sustainable model that includes its life saving emergency room. If you want this to happen, please vote for them!
They are running against incumbent Jim Horn, who has emerged as the leading opponent of re-opening an emergency room. Horn speaks of supporting an “urgent care” alternative to an ER, but urgent care cannot, by law, accept ambulances, or provide the ER services that have saved lives in our community for generations.
An impressive team of business and medical experts in West Sonoma County has been working for months to create an exciting new financially sustainable hospital (see OpenOurHopsital.com) that will contain an emergency room, and an expanded governance model that will allow the hospital to reopen.
Palm Drive Hospital was rated by Consumer Reports as the safest hospital in the entire state of California. Our community deserves a District Board that is fully committed to reopening it.