u/ProgressiveYamhill

Yamhill County, we are begging you lovingly: please return your ballots.❤️

Last Commissioner race, over 45,000 ballots mailed out (at taxpayer expense) never came back.

Just 91 votes would have avoided a costly second election — and two more months of field signs in 2024. 🫣

Your ballot is probably sitting on the counter right now. ☑️Fill it out. 🗳️Drop it off by May 19. Save your neighbors from Commissioner Field Sign Wars: The Sequel this November.

Former County Commissioner Lindsay Berschauer and her husband Michael Firestone launched an all-out attack in every local community group accusing Candidate for Commissioner John Linder (challenging incumbent Kit Johnston, local farmer and roller-coaster owner) for using the derogatory term “Yamhillbillies”, and questioning his ability to serve if he uses that type of language. Their evidence was a 13 year old Facebook post.

Alas for Berschauer and Firestone, the “Yamhillbillies” is a local bluegrass band, now renamed Bootleg Jam, made up of friends of Linder’s — who were performing at Farm Fest 13 years ago. Yay! Indeed.

Oops. 😬