(Above right is Erny Spears, candidate for supervisor in district 3. To the left is long time Chico resident, Pete Webber.)
by Jack Lee
He’s on the campaign trail and he’s going door to door with his grass-roots campaign and he’s in it to win! Erny Spears is a Chico businessman running for Supervisor in the 3rd district against incumbent Maureen Kirk.
Erny is a strong conservative and a past member of the Butte County Republican Central Committee and a current member of the California Republican Assembly. He’s
been active in the business community for over 20 years and he wants to put that experience to use in county government.
If elected, Erny promises to encourage clean industry and businesses to relocate here. He says we need the jobs, and new businesses will boost the local economy and give us a more secure, stable tax base with revenues the county can rely on. However, we need to get him elected first and to that end Erny and his team have been putting in many long hours, making calls, speaking at events, putting up his signs and more. It’s a lot of hard work, but, he and his volunteers like Pete Webber (above) say its well worth it if they can help turn this county around.
Erny knows that without recruiting quality businesses this county is always going to be at the doorstep of poverty and we’ve been there far too long, its time for a change. “We have a lot to offer here and it’s about time we start advertising our natural assets and compete with the other counties. If we don’t, we’re going to be stuck with our high unemployment, frequent cuts in county services and the burden of higher taxation will continue to fall on the homeowners. We can and we must, do better!” Erny says, “Butte County needs a stable baseline of businesses to create decent paying private sector jobs and to protect our bmost asic county services, like police and fire from layoffs and from under funded budgets.”
When asked what he plans to do first, Erny said, “I want to take a look at everything we do in county government and find out where we can improve. I want streamline government to make it more effective and more efficient. That won’t be easy, but I’m ready to go to work!”
Erny Spears created a multi-million dollar business, Communications Impact, from a few hundred dollars many years ago and he says, “My business experience is what we need now – we don’t need politicians blowing smoke, we need action!”