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In 2017, my planned short conversation with Dan McDonald expanded to topics from budgets and environment to personal interests and values.

Dan is straight-forward about his conservative values and unapologetic for his rigid business attitude regarding efficiency and waste reduction. A no-nonsense manager, he believes in empowering employees with both responsibility and accountability. He’s an outdoorsman who is happiest in the woods, on the lake, or enjoying his home and family.

Most evident is his desire to see Bonner County be (and remain) a well-run, healthy community that serves its residents and affords everyone the best of what panhandle life has to offer. His commitment to that goal drives him to spend exhaustive hours keeping the promises he’s made and dedicating himself to a search for someone who will continue the effort to see these goals are met when his own service ends.

His number one goal? “Preserve our culture.”

In contrast, trying to remove McDonald from office is a man whose political party philosophy is, “think globally, act locally.” To his partisan supporters that means erase our borders, promote refugee relocation, abolish law enforcement, repeal the Second Amendment and radically limit property rights through regionalization.

I think this choice is simple. The values Steve Lockwood would bring to the office are simply not shared by people who believe in keeping America great.

I proudly join those who support Dan McDonald’s reelection.

JIM BOYER

Blanchard