Salt Lake City Council members Victoria Petro-Eschler and Alejandro Puy: We are supporting Jen Plumb because the incumbent, Derek Kitchen, 'has already proven to be harmful to the communities where we live and serve.'
Utah state Senate candidate Jen Plumb, pictured on Oct. 12, 2021.The west side of Salt Lake City has historically been at the mercy of those with influence and power. Our sustainability requires us to adjust this paradigm so that we build equity with those in power instead of receiving it without our input — which means elections and those on the ballot are more important than ever before.
The process was fraught. Principled elected officials working alongside other principled elected officials to find outcomes to satisfy the variety of concerns. When the final gavel came down, the bill was full of compromise, sacrifice, tears, sweat and promise. That bill has led to contractual protections for the environment, infrastructure and community, as well as the return of tax increment to the city.
On the final day of the session, Sen.Derek Kitchen argued that a city board seat in the bill needed to be designated differently, despite his failure to confirm with the city this was a fight he should take on. City officials had worked tirelessly to arrange internal functionality to accommodate this bill. He could have inadvertently upended our city apple cart and the many potential protections being offered in this bill had he succeeded.
Our communities rely on consensus-building, insightful legislators whose principles value the people of our communities over their own estimation of right and wrong. We rely on legislators to work collaboratively toward solutions that are best possible outcomes — not perfect outcomes that don’t exist in the realities we face every day.
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