Peddy Implodes

I've always been interested in certain local issues. But until this election, my attention to local government was vague and in the abstract.

Uncharacteristically, over the past weeks I have interacted with a number of elected officials, candidates, and city employees. I have new found respect for anyone willing to run for office or otherwise be in the public eye, especially in a (not so) small (anymore) community like Bainbridge.

Anyone with integrity that is.
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Maybe there is a reason that citizens other than real estate developers should take the Will Peddy campaign seriously. If that reason exists, it will never be known. That's because Mr. Peddy's campaign has been polluted and obscured by the irrational individuals he surrounds himself with, principally Jim Olsen, Peddy's whacked out campaign manager.

And now to compound matters, the online publication bainbridge buzz reports troubling news about the Will Peddy campaign regarding widespread and egregious falsification of his resume.

bainbridge buzz:
the registrar at UC/Davis said the school has no record of Will Peddy attending
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campaign manager Jim Olsen sent us an “amended” copy of Peddy’s resume which no longer contains the claim that Peddy had a bachelor’s degree from UC/Davis.

While this is good news from the standpoint of the road-ends, it's an unfortunate development in my view. I'd rather see Peddy's (diffuse) brand of private property zealotry lose out on the merits, as was destined to happen.