Written by Campbell County Judge-Executive Steve Pendery
If you were to select a CEO to run a family business with 250 employees and a $70 million budget, you would look at the experience of the contenders for the job, their credentials and the results they have obtained in their career to date, remembering that Results matter, not rhetoric.
Campbell County citizens are all shareholders in, and beneficiaries of, our family business, the county government, and they are about to choose a leader for that organization.
I have literally spent my life in community and government service: 42 years experience in various elected positions, 36 of them as the chief executive officer of a city or county. That’s 42 years of scandal free, collegial partnership, with relationships built across the state, the region and in our county. Relationships are what collaboration is made of. Relationships get things done.
I have credentials that suggest I will succeed, and a record during my public and business life that proves it.
But in the end, this election is not about the last 28 years or 42 years. It’s about the next 4.
During that time frame, our new public safety building will be completed, the Lake at AJ jolly park will be dredged, the dam repaired. We will or will not have moved the KY 536 project close to completion. We will or will not have succeeded in workforce talent attraction. We will or will not succeed in dramatically improving the housing market.
I will do my utmost to finish what has been started, to continue to bring the team and resources we have developed to bear on challenges like workforce, housing, and transportation, and to always reach for more. We have an impressive present, with a glorious future within our reach.
I invite you: Lets get there together.
I respectfully ask for your vote on May 19th.