George Rebane
Sue McGuire has announced that she will be running against Nate Beason for the Nevada County District #1 supervisorial seat. Press release below.
News Release
Contact: Julie Johnson
Phone: 530 263 2060
For Immediate Release
Sue McGuire announces candidacy for First District Supervisor
Nevada County Attorney Sue McGuire this morning announced that she is seeking the office of First District Supervisor for Nevada County. She believes her deep roots in the community and two decades as an attorney in Nevada County have provided her with the love of the lifestyle here, and the experience that makes her perfect for the job. Sue’s family has been actively involved in the county for six generations.
Sue’s first goal as county supervisor will be to ensure that Nevada County retains existing businesses and encourages new businesses that will provide jobs for Nevada County residents. Given the economy and resulting job attrition in government, it is critical to provide an atmosphere that encourages private sector business. Sue will review all regulations that may be a hindrance to this goal to determine what is working and alternatively, what needs to be changed.
McGuire was born and raised in Nevada County, as were her parents, Mel and Bonnie McGuire. Mel was a self-employed trucker, hauling logs in the warmer months and refrigerated trailers cross-country in the winter. Her mother was a homemaker and is an artist and writer. Sue’s grandparents, Tom and Marie McGuire, moved to the area in the 1920s and owned apartments in Nevada City while Tom hauled equipment for the mines and local construction companies. That included equipment and supplies for construction of the annex to the Nevada County Courthouse and for Nevada City Elementary School.
Sue’s maternal grandparents, Val and Lilly Belle Baima, began operating a local organic farm in the 1940s, long before anyone else pursued organic farming. They received numerous local and state awards for excellence in agriculture.
Sue graduated from Nevada Union High School and immediately began working in local law offices, while eventually completing law school at night and opening her private practice in Nevada County in 1991. She worked in the Nevada County District Attorney’s Office from 2003 to 2008, when she decided to return to her current private practice handling civil and criminal cases.
Sue has volunteered with the American Red Cross, including assisting in Louisiana during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and helped out at the San Francisco Rescue Mission. She also served as an election official for three elections during the past decade and volunteered with Veteran’s Stand Down. McGuire is a past local Board Member for Project Jump Start, Anew Day, and the Nevada County Tea Party Patriots. She currently serves as a regular volunteer at Twin Cities Church and is a mentor attorney with the Nevada County Peer Court.
McGuire vows to meet with her constituents during her campaign and will continue that practice upon assuming duties as the First District Supervisor. She plans meeting with community organizations, county staff, and city, state, and federal officials on a frequent and regular basis.
McGuire feels it is her patriotic privilege and duty to be a public servant in the community that she calls home.
Obama now ‘The Divider’
George Rebane
The Great Divide (and search RR) has been a subject of interest and debate among readers. Our friends from the Left honor me with accusations of being a lone rogue in shining a light on the path that appears to be tearing the country apart. Unfortunately as thinkers and commentators across the country have pointed out, the notion of such a division, the Great Divide, is an enterprise shared by people of many political and ideological colorations.
A recent piece on this is from Peggy Noonan – ‘The Divider vs the Thinker’ – that appeared in the 29oct11 WSJ. In it she compares and contrasts President Barack Obama’s current efforts with those of Representative Paul Ryan. What caught my eye in her analysis was the similarity of concepts that she highlights with those in RR. Her overarching introduction immediately gets to the heart of the matter –
People are increasingly fearing the divisions within, even the potential coming apart of, our country. Rich/poor, black/white, young/old, red/blue: The things that divide us are not new, yet there's a sense now that the glue that held us together for more than two centuries has thinned and cracked with age. That it was allowed to thin and crack, that the modern era wore it out.
The glue of which she speaks was the “shared knowledge” of our past, especially that there was something “providential” about our beginnings. Overwhelmingly, we had “a general understanding that we were something new in history, a nation founded on ideals and aspirations — liberty, equality — and not mere grunting tribal wants. We were from Europe but would not be European: No formal class structure here, no limits, from the time you touched ground all roads would lead forward. You would be treated not as your father was but as you deserved.”
From whatever future awaits us, she opines that we will look back at this as the “Great Coming Apart” during which we suffered stresses and strains where “half the country isn’t speaking to the other half”, quoting a moderate Democrat.
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