Fiscal conservative who is willing to pay price | Letters | Oct. 29

Published 1:37 pm Friday, October 29, 2010

My father, James M. Olsen, a retired U.S. Coast Guard captain and current business man, instilled in me honor, hard work, tenacity and a strong willingness to stand up for what is right, no matter what the cost. For many years he had to do extensive travels between Bainbridge and Washington, D.C., but he was a model of leadership and innovation.

Over the recent past few years he championed for City of Bainbridge to streamline its expenses by using web-based broadcasting versus expensive BITV for coverage of council meetings. He worked with Interim City Manager Lee Walton to follow Mayor Lary Cappola’s model in Port Orchard of cost-savings use of web-broadcast of meetings.

He also decried COBI’s short-sightedness in failing to chip-seal the roads while giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bainbridge artists. My father tirelessly championed the notion, “a government that governs the least, governs the best.” ( Thomas Jefferson).

My father is ready, willing and able to serve in the State Legislature and all of Washington’s citizens. I endorse him as a fiscal conservative who will not be swayed by special interests or party dictates.

Crosby J. Olsen

Kandahar, Afghanistan