We’ve endorsed nonprofit executive, community volunteer, and longtime Blue Valley resident Julie Brewer for County Commission. We’re joined in that endorsement by many current and former elected leaders, business and community leaders, and local organizations. Brewer is also a Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate.
Brewer’s opponent, Charlotte O’Hara, has been a controversial figure in Johnson County politics for decades - one that County District 3 voters tell us they’ve had enough of. O’Hara has run for various offices many times. Her one win was in 2020, when she was elected to the County Commission. She then ran for Commission Chair in 2022, and the local Moms For Liberty chapter organized canvassing for her campaign. O’Hara lost that race, but remained on the Commission. Her performance over the past 4 years has shown southern Johnson Countians that they need new representation.
O’Hara backed Johnson County’s election-denying sheriff, Calvin Hayden, in his refusal to answer the County Commission when they asked for information about how his office was spending tax dollars. That’s not evidence of fiscal responsibility. (Hayden was recently ousted in the August Republican primary.)
As a state legislator (she was appointed to fill an opening, not elected) O’Hara made anti-public education votes and statements. She is vocally pro-voucher. O’Hara’s views make her out-of-step with the majority of District 3 residents who enjoy having excellent public schools here.
O’Hara ran for County Commission Chair in 2002 and 2006, and spent almost half a million dollars of her OWN money (via loans to her campaign that she later forgave) - to lose those races. That raises questions from us about her public service motives.
During COVID, the JoCo Election Commissioner made the decision to encourage safe voting for everyone by sending out mail ballot applications. As a County Commissioner, O’Hara testified in the legislature for Senate Bill 366, which would have made it illegal for county election officials to send registered voters an application to request a mail ballot. Why would O’Hara oppose that?
As a County Commissioner, O’Hara sued Blue Valley Schools over the district’s requirement that she wear a mask to a School Board meeting when every other entity in the entire country was requiring masks. Wasting time and money of the BV School District to advance an extreme political agenda isn’t what voters want in a County Commissioner. (O’Hara’s case was dismissed.)
We strongly urge County Commission District 3 voters to tell Charlotte O’Hara that her brief political career is over by electing Julie Brewer, the moderate, centrist candidate with the experience and approach that is more suited to the vast majority of constituents in Johnson County.
Brewer’s website: https://julieforjoco.com/
We’ve documented some of O’Hara’s history on our website Blog: www.standupbluevalley.org/blog/categories/charlotte-o-hara
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Learn more about Moms For Liberty, a group so extreme that its local chapter advocates for the REMOVAL OF VOTING MACHINES in our JoCo elections: www.standupbluevalley.org/blog/categories/moms-for-liberty
Vote NOW in person at BV Hilltop - see our website for dates/times and all of our endorsed candidates: www.standupbluevalley.org/
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