Candidates without qualifications

A cursory view of candidates on the ballot reveals that Nadine Woodward and Cindy Wendle have less education than their opponents, no governmental experience and no history of working for the less fortunate, only big business. Any HR manager would eliminate them from consideration as not qualified. Yet Spokane is considering allowing them to get on-the-job training managing our city.

Entitled and wealthy backgrounds limit functioning. Example: homelessness. Both prefer the small-town model of drug treatment or jail. In their limited experience they see the homeless as lazy drug addicts, not human beings. They are also clueless to the fact that jail and drug treatment is already the process. They do want to criminalize homelessness. 3,000 homeless are kids; are they going to jail too? Some homeless work; they will lose their jobs. Jail is overcrowded so we’ll need a new big jail. With guards, more prosecutors and public defenders. Taxes will skyrocket.

This is one example, but don’t worry, Woodward and Wendle support high-end developments with expensive homes for sale and realtors happy to sell them to you. Oh, from the pages of foreclosures in today’s Review, the homeless population is about to get bigger.

Laura L. Ott

Spokane