Before you mark your ballot - please consider this important information.

The Clark County Clerk does administrative work to maintain and protect the court’s records. There are over 40 employees in the office. So the Clerk needs administrative and supervisory skills, and needs to have the background to budget and then manage the funds.

            This is not a position that makes policy, and probably should not be one where we elect either a Democrat or a Republican, but where we elect the best and most qualified person based on their accomplishments.

            Sherry Parker has no meaningful administrative or management experience.

She has worked in the Clerks office for fifteen years at the same level that she first worked in. She is a clerk in a court room. There has been no promotion on advancement to a supervisory position. Ms Parker has no budgetary experience. The closest that she has come to budgeting is that years ago she wrote checks as she was directed to do in Juvenile Court.

            The claim to be on a state budgetary commission is also bogus because Ms. Parker went to only one meeting before that went into her campaign brochures. A little more honesty would be better.

            She claims administrative experience as a result of being on the Clark College Board of Trustees. Anyone who serves on a board knows the Boards make policy, and are not administrators. And even without administrative responsibilities, Ms. Parker has not been effective. She ignored faculty and staff until the college had paid large amounts of money to terminate the president. This was a missed opportunity to show leadership, if one were able to do so.

            One may wonder where there has not been more attention to prior public services – and that is because there is little in the way of contributing to the community, although she has lived here long enough to have made significant contributions if there was both the ability and the commitment to service. What community groups have endorsed Sherry Parker – none. Her service is focused on this campaign.

            A look at the web site will also result in questions by citizens. There are very few supporters listed, and those supporters are from one political party. There are very few financial contributions listed with the Public Disclosure Commissions – except for a large donation from the electricians union, whose interest in the Clerk’s office would be interesting to know. When the easily recognizable names of family members are removed from the list of supporters and financial contributions, there is very little left, except for the union money.

            Sherry Parker has no educational background to help her be a court clerk.

Ms. Parker who wants to work with the court’s records and says she can manage legal matters should have that her signs were in violation of state law. How will she have the integrity to work with legal documents if she refuses to follow the law on something as clear as legal signs, when the information was provided to her when she filed for office? What laws will she chose not to follow if they are inconvenient for her?

            A clear contrast is made between Baine Wilson and Sherry Parker. Baine is running on her skills, qualifications, and vision – not on the names of her political friends. Ms. Wilson is currently the administrator in her department, and does the budgeting and manages both her staff and the money allocated to her by the county commissioners. Baine has earned her position of responsibility through hard work and has been promoted for her hard work. 

            Ms. Wilson Public Disclosure Reports show that she has broad support in the community, and supports that is based on individuals of many backgrounds.

            Baine Wilson has made people responsible for their criminal actions that cost us money as tax payers. She has been very successful in collecting fines and judgments to make county government and the courts more efficient. Thousands of citizens who are victims got money owed them because of a crime. Ms. Wilson shows her integrity by making claims that are supported by the facts. She lists skills and accomplishments that are long term. Her pride in her family is shown in her campaign advertisements. She has complied with the law. She is much a part of the community, and has provided service to the community with a goal greater than one campaign. Her education in society and justice is another qualification.

            Ms. Wilson also has great ideas about how to improve the clerk’s office. She has been specific about her ideas from the beginning of this campaign, and they are ideas that will improve service to the public and allow the office to work more efficiently. Her vision of utilizing technology to make the office easier for professionals and the public to use show that she has spent much time looking for ways to move the office ahead and make it a place where the public is served as opposed to being served by the public. We need someone in the office who can see what needs to be done, and has the ability to get it done. The only clerk in the office who has made her support known to the public supports Baine Wilson – and this is someone who can speak with first hand knowledge of both candidates.

            Based on candidates, it is clear that well informed voters who do no make decisions based on the special interests of  a few or strict partisan politics will vote for Baine Wilson. I ask you to make this county better and vote for Baine Wilson.