Megan McKenna - Snyderville Address

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.  She is of the people.  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 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.  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 Center for moderate income families as she fought for her own affordable housing on the paltry wages we pay our essential employees. She is now running for Summit County Council, for the people, for her family and friends.  She is a fresh face and perspective, untarnished by political history or histrionics.  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, complex and contiguous problems facing the County and can communicate them and solve them with our public input professional staff assistance and fellow council collaboration.  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