Two score and several years ago Megan McKenna came to Summit County, conceived in liberty and the proposition that all men are created equal. We knew Megan McKenna from the days when she was a bony kneed young girl riding her oversized bicycle around Silver Springs. She is from a solid blue-collar family who bought a home here when it was possible Unlike so many new interlopers, Megan is actually from here, skiing our hills, riding our trails and educated in our schools. Many successful businessmen come here and run for office after living here only 5 years, thinking their money-making skills will make up for their lack of history and experience with our rural and agricultural county. It doesn’t. This is our home, a diverse Municipal County, not a business, dedicated to making people flourish, not filthy rich. Megan envisions a sustainable, affordable County, with responsible growth and regional collaboration, so that this County, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Next, we saw Megan burst
into the good-old-boys-club and serve on the ski patrol at The Canyons. When
she wasn’t throwing avalanche bombs or evacuating yet another torn ACL she was
fighting for worker’s rights and employee contracts. After that long and loyal stint she started a
local’s petition for backcountry access to our public lands and received
thousands of signatures of local support.
The stakeholders agreed to meet with her annually until this problem was
hammered out. Then Megan moved to
educating our students in science at PC High School. Her students recognized and respected her, as
they do all good teachers, and she invited guest speakers from our scientific community
to give her students a wider perspective.
She loved the work but could not make ends meet after 11 years. Finally,
she found her new passion fighting for the Mountainlands Housing Resource Cener
for moderate income families as she fought for her own affordable housing on the
slave wages we pay our essential employees. We need to elect Megan to the
Summit County Council because it is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do so.
I favor Megan for the
Summit County Council because she is from here, she is one of us. She understands our history and our diversity,
our experience and our ambitions. She is
empathetic to the diversity of the east and west County alike and understands
their respective positions and perspectives as a team player and critical
thinker. She understands the nuanced and
complex problems facing the county and can break them down into smaller, logical
pieces she can solve simply and communicate affectively to her constituents. Megan Mckenna will ensure that government of
the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from this County.
Matthew Lindon, PE ‘79
Snyderville Utah