Editor,

Well, folks, we are coming up on election time again. Aug. 4 is the primary, Sept 3 the general election.

It’s time to run a balance sheet to see which way to mark your ballot. Keep in mind the liberals have been in control for around 40 years, so let’s take a look at some of the things they accomplished:

Almost doubled the state budget in the last eight years; gave themselves a big raise when everybody else was laid off for virus; raised taxes by almost $20 billion in last session alone; spent $5 million taxpayer dollars on a failed vanity campaign; allowed hundred of millions of dollars to be stolen from the unemployment fund and totally fouled up legitimate claims; no fixes in sight for highway congestion; lost federal funding for state mental hospital; allowed millions of trees to burn because of bad forestry management; coronavirus mismanagement; mandated teaching of “pornography” to little kids; 62 lawsuits against the Trump administration, minimal to no prosecution of real criminals; blocked the $30 license tabs because voters didn’t “understand” what they were voting for; and skyrocketing drugs, homeless.

Hmmm, maybe it’s time to try something else. After all, Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different result.

Plan B might go like this: The conservative field has many candidates who are not career politicians, but have backgrounds in the real world, businesses where they sign the front of the paychecks, trying to meet overbearing regulations, licensing issues, paying taxes instead of mandating them, creating real budgets … you get the idea.

A little research on ordinary citizens who want to make things better for all of us might be good idea. Culp, Bruch, Hazelo, Freed, Larkin, Muzzall, Gilday, many more, just use Google, they all have websites.

We have some big problems right now, maybe trying people who do instead of talk might be worth a try.

Rick Kiser

Oak Harbor