Editor,

I received a flyer mailed out by a group in Kirkland and paid for by off-island big money organizations attempting to discredit our former county commissioner Angie Homola. It is full of falsehoods and lies, suggesting she is incapable of working with others and being argumentative.

I served on the Ebey’s Landing Historical Review Committee with Angie 17 years ago when these false allegations were contrived. The truth is that Angie began drafting design guidelines for the reserve as directed.

When the county commissioners and their “growth at any cost” staff realized this might hinder their uncontrolled growth mission, they denigrated her work to establish a false alibi to achieve their personal goals.

In order to retain her integrity, Angie resigned from that hostile work environment and focused her attention on the people’s needs and desires and got elected as county commissioner.

While you can always rewrite history if you don’t like it, the truth doesn’t change.

Angie was a tremendous asset to the people of Island County when she was commissioner. She is an incredibly smart person who works hard for the people, listens to the people and works collaboratively in order to get things done.

She cannot be bought. She will serve us well in Olympia.

Clearly her opponent is fearful of having to run a campaign against an intelligent, strong, capable woman and so looks away when reprehensible and illegitimate garbage such as this flyer goes out to thousands of residents.

I strongly urge you to vote for Angie Homola for state legislator in the upcoming election. Her work ethic, her values, her ideas and her integrity — her humanity — are what we need now in Olympia.

We cannot do better than Angie.

Gretchen Luxenberg

Freeland