projects Archives - Tootie Smith

May 11, 2022

Another Successful Short Session

Two years ago, the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners announced plans to raise property taxes to fund the construction of a new courthouse facility. I had already decided by then that I didn’t like the direction the county was going and that I planned to run against the board chair. Polling done at the time showed that 80 percent of…

April 7, 2020

The Importance of Law and Order

Throughout my campaign for chair of the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners, I’ve emphasized the need to focus on the most essential of services. And out of all of them, law and order is arguably the most critical. When I served on the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners from 2013 to 2017, I strived to ensure that county residents had…