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San Mateo County, CA November 8, 2005 Election
Smart Voter Additional Endorsements for Bob Ptacek

Candidate for
Member; Montara Water and Sanitary District

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League for Coastside Protection
Green Party

Coastsider.com (Coastside news & community) said the following in it's endorsement....

We have a lot of challenges with the County's determination to expand the population faster than our supply of water. And we're still digesting the purchase of our water system. Fortunately, the current members of the Montara Water and Sanitary District are sincere, hard-working and smart.

We don't object to the idea of adding new blood to a board, but it's difficult to make a case for Peggy Ruse. I recommend reading her statement at Smartvoter. A lot of it is nearly incomprehensible. I don't understand her argument we should vote for her because no resident of Moss Beach is on the board. She presents no support for her pie-in-the-sky proposal to bring Hetch Hetchy water into the district with a pipeline through the Devil's Slide Tunnel. And she does not support her allegations that the board has a "hidden agenda", other than their endorsement by the League for Coastside Protection, which she says has a "reputation for being no-growth". That charge is leveled at the LCP all the time, but no one (least of all Peggy Ruse) has demonstrated it.

Residents of Montara and Moss Beach are lucky to have their current water board and we recommend voting for the incumbents.

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