In my next blog, I am reprinting the letter that I have sent to the press, my opponents, and other community leaders. I have also been on the phone to Maria Mayer, Mayor Bower, Commissioners Tobin and Libbin and many other supporters and community leaders. We share the outrage that this has tainted a positive campaign which should be about the issues and the experience of the candidates. I reiterate that neither I nor anyone associated with my campaign had anything to do with the negative mailer that arrived in mailboxes yesterday. I was as shocked and offended as other recipients. This mailer is formatted to imply that the Sherry Roberts campaign is comparing Ms. Roberts to Ms. Mayer and disparaging Ms.Mayer while praising Ms. Roberts.  The photo of Sherry has been altered to put her against a background of storm clouds and the spin on all the information is distorted.

THIS TYPE OF CAMPAIGN LITERATURE IS WRONG.

Even more upsetting to me, as a woman who has fought long and hard for women's rights and who has mentored women in business for years, is the chauvinistic implication that the two women in this race are in some type of "cat fight."

This is 2009 and aren't we past this blatant anti feminism?

I am a candidate who will restore civility, respect and common purpose to the commission. i have said that the true barometer of what a person will do in the future is what they have done in the past. The city needs Sherry Roberts who will put the good of the city above winning at all costs.