It is extremely difficult not to respond to the Brentwood Press front page article about Supervisor Piepho and her statements about her re-election. Piepho is quoted in the article as saying “We did zero attacks on Guy Houston, didn’t mention him once in our materials.”

Piepho has to think the Editor of this newspaper and the public are from another planet. Chevron, that refinery in Richmond that wants to double their pollution emissions of sulfur from 1.5% to 3% into our air, Tom Koch the Developer of New Farm in charge of busting through the Urban Limit Line in San Ramon, Tom Powers Ex-Board of Supervisors now consultant for developers, and of course Mr. Bloomfield the vineyard guy who got his taxes almost eliminated and diligently reined in the votes from the Reclamation Districts to keep David Piepho on the LAFCO.

And last but not least Jim Bickert, that big Union guy that swears Mary can’t turn down his deputies raise and pension benefits because of his support. These special interest groups poured $218,000+ of negative mailers, signs and phone calls on behalf of our Supervisor Piepho’s campaign all to discredit and keep Mr. Houston out of the seat?

For Supervisor Piepho to act like she had nothing to do with it is deceiving and ridiculous. Houston remained a gentleman until the end and couldn’t take anymore of the false accusations. Think these guys missed the Grand Jury Report: that states “Their increase in salary (60%) will bring qualified individuals to run for the office.” It will be interesting to see how much further in debt this county falls without voting for someone qualified.