Until recently, I had never heard of Tom Hornish. I spent a decade in state government working closely with the state legislature and I am suspicious of all politicians.

The deeper I probed into Tom Hornish’s background the more impressed I became. An engineer, lawyer, entrepreneur, and corporate CEO, Tom served his country in Desert Storm and he has the intelligence and courage to take on the developers who are insidiously destroying the quality of life in Sammamish. My gold standard for Sammamish City Council has been Ramiro Valderrama. Tom Hornish is a man of similar quality.

Bumper to bumper traffic already has started for several major arterials in Sammamish as more new high-density developments come on line every month. There is an undocumented price to pay for our unsustainable growth.

There are not only new schools to build and staff, but also there are new fire stations and expanded water and sewer systems, additional law enforcement officers and a host of ancillary city services.

Light rail climbing the Plateau isn’t a realistic event and for decades we will be dependent on our local arterials for transportation.

If you like what the existing city council has done to our community during the last four years, then you should vote for the incumbent Tom Vance. If not, then vote for Tom Hornish and give Ramiro Valderrama the ally he needs on the city council.

Frank Maresca, Sammamish