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I love this Longmont City Council.
I really do. I think it’s filled with just the right mix of passionate
progressive firebrands, sensible realists, and pragmatic policymakers. It’s
the kind of blend that previous councils have desperately needed. However,
I think it’s missing one key piece.
As Longmont completes transitions from the town of farmers, laborers, and
blue collar workers it was in its youth into a bustling and thriving city
of more than 100,000 residents, Council needs an experienced, articulate,
and visionary voice to fill out the panel.
Thankfully, we have a candidate in the upcoming Ward 1 special election
with exactly those attributes.
Dr. Tim Waters has been a leader in education, a field he holds his
doctorate in. He’s run businesses, and he’s served Longmont proudly in
several capacities since moving here over two decades ago. He’s exactly the
kind of experienced visionary this council needs.
My family has been in this community for four generations. In that time,
we’ve seen Longmont evolve into the city it is today. Tim’s seen that
transition as well, and he has a plan on how to balance growth with the
needs of our residents.
He’ll fight to keep fracking out of the city, work to solve Longmont’s
affordable housing crisis, and stand up to RTD to demand Longmont get what
it was promised in the corrupt FasTracks deal.
His opponent in this race is a good, young, ambitious man. But, that’s not
what this community needs. It’s not what this particular council needs.
Longmont needs experience. Longmont needs leadership. Longmont needs
visionaries. Longmont needs Tim Waters.
Jake Marsing
Longmont
