Frentzen wins special EDC supervisor election
There will not be another Nutting on the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors.
The first of three new El Dorado County supervisors was elected Sept. 9. Shiva Frentzen earned 30.96 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s special election, with 2,374 votes.
The election was to replace Ray Nutting who had been ousted earlier this year because of being convicted on misdemeanor offenses related to money obtained to bail him out on felony charges.
His wife, Jennifer, ran for the seat. She came in fourth out of six candidates with 13.21 percent, 1,013 votes.
Second was George Turnboo at 18.69 percent, 1,433 votes; third Dave Pratt at 15.08 percent, 1,156 votes; fifth Claire McNeal at 10.95 percent, 840 votes; and sixth Chris Amaral at 10.84 percent, 831 votes.
The other two contested races will be decided Nov 4. The current supervisors are being termed out.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
The people were smart enough to reject Nutting’s no show wife’s fake campaign and his pawn and instead turned on out of control developers and their proposals to add thousands of new houses with no infrastructure in place making the current residents pay for them and this in turn also makes old rural roads unsafe and there is also no water for these projects. There were only two slow growth candidates and one of them won. This same type of unwanted development, oversize high-density commercial development applies to Meyers. The candidates in D-5 have been very vague about the biggest issues in the county and in Meyers. They should try to be more specific about their positions on development before the vote.
They should leave Meyers alone!! We don’t want or need anything from them. They do not have OUR best interest in mind, only THEIRS!
Novasel is now one of three candidates endorsed by the west end “Farm Bureau” which appears to be a collection of developers and their candidates including Pratt and Ranalli. A group operating as a “Farm Bureau” is clever but easily seen through. This speaks for itself and Pratt was just defeated by the slow growth candidate. Connect the dots on these people as the candidates aren’t going to tell anyone. The issue of development is primary and in a drought with limited water of major concern and why people had to step up and put it to a vote and not trust the Board as developers corrupt the process as evidenced by the attempted sell out of Meyers to developers.