Dear Editor:

I, like most people, was excited to see in last week’s Plaindealer that Lynn Padgett was running for county commissioner. What I remember, and was left out of the article, was that Lynn was a Ouray County planning commissioner and has 12 years of experience in local government administration and policy.

Especially, she was selected as Colorado Commissioner of the Year in eon. And she was Chair of the National Association of County’s Rural Action Caucus in 2015 and held numerous le...