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Despite political parties getting into non partisan political races in California. I have to go across the aisle to support Sam Crowe for my second vote for the Ontario City Council. If Supervisor Postmus could endorse a Democratic party member for the local water agency. I could do likewise as long as the candidate reflects good public policy positions.

Sam Crowe is an attorney who lives and has his business in the city of Ontario. He has prior experience in the planning commission and the city council in a prior stint. I recently received a flyer describing some of his policy prescriptions to make Ontario a better place to live and do business.

Ontario is doing great attaining new businesses and leisure opportunities. I applaud council members such as Alan Wapner for leading the way for them. However if our city is growing we need more effective public services. Code enforcement to make sure our city does not become blighted, a new hospital to help injured and sick people during the critical emergency response time. He lastly added that we need practical solutions for Ontario’s homeless problem. I appreciate Sam for acknowledging the issue that we face in our community. I believe we should work together with businesses, faith groups and governmental organizations in order to bring hope to the homeless.

I also agree with Sam that the city council should not silence their opposition during the ballot statement process. Ballot statements should not cost $2840, there should be an online ballot statement opportunity for voters with Internet access for a fraction of the cost. The city and the county used to eat the majority of the cost to pay for this information however there should be some balance between the old price and the new price of voter information.

I endorse Sam Crowe for council.

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I have been in the retail industry for the last five years. As an employee I know how life is when you have to maintain your store from opening to closing each day. I deeply get annoyed when people mess up my store. No matter what store I shop in, I try to put back unwanted merchandise or take it to the register so they could put it away. I believe that we should have the decency to be respectful no matter if you are the customer or the employee of a retail store operation. If you have unwanted merchandise do not dump it around the corner near my register just give it to me.

I understand you may have two rowdy young children who like to move around my store and like to dump random junk in your shopping cart. The customer who got offended at my statement of her littering the store may be right that I was using the wrong vocabulary at her. However I should of phrased my request a bit better. I should of stated to the customer “Could you please place your unwanted goods to me so I could place them neatly”.

A clean store is a happy store. Despite the lack of employees at key times throughout the day. My store does quite better than some of the bigger branches of my company because we are clean. Customer service is a team effort between the employees and the customers of our businesses.

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