Carberry cares about rural area

If my dad could select anyone to run in his shoes on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, it would be Mike Carberry.

My dad served 12 years as a Democrat on the Board of Supervisors. He also was a farmer at Newport with the address of Solon. As I was growing up, he lectured religiously about clean water, the dangers of chemicals and family farms being important. He was the one who got Johnson County to stop its roadside spraying, helped write the National Groundwater Policy Forum and was always on the Johnson County Conversation Board.

Carberry is with the Sierra Club, America's largest and most influential grass roots environmental organization, and happens to be the only candidate running for office who cares about conservation. He shows his love of the countryside by being against housing developments on farm ground. City dwellers should build their houses on land that cannot be farmed. This is especially pertinent in this county with their intent to build north of Iowa City.

He also is a longtime member of the Iowa Farm Bureau and Iowa Farmers Union. He is in opposition to a new nuclear power plant in Iowa and helped write and pass the Johnson County wind turbine ordinances.

There is not a better and more qualified person to run for this office.

Bonnie Duffy Bradley

Iowa City