Does the Summit County Council provide equal representation? I encourage all Summit County voters to consider Ari Ioannides (vote4ari.com/) for County Council. Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to meet Ari an accomplished innovator. Right away I knew that it was time to get ready for “A big far Greek campaign.” Recently, my wife and I were camping in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. It is uncanny to realize that while we were more than 50 miles from home we were still in Summit County! According to the Utah Education Network, Summit County is a land mass of 1,882 square miles, and in excess of 50% of that is federal lands.So who governs the remaining less than a half slice of our county? In addition to census-designated areas like Wanship and Hoytsville there are five other municipalities: Francis, Henefer, Kamas, Oakley and Coalville in the county. The hegemony of Park City dominates county governance because four of the five board members reside in the Park City area. This fact alone should be more of a shove then a nudge for voters to act in their own best interests. Moreover, the council is a monolithic block of Democrats. Success flourishes when diversity of thought trumps equity check boxes. Some of Ari’s achievements: Founder of Board Docs; created the 260-acre Rocky Point Preserve; founded BootUP PD (teaches children to code); board member of North Summit Fire District; former executive director of the Park City Institute; Intermountain Health Wasatch Back Community Board trustee.We need doers, not dreamers. Blue cities and counties across the fruited plain are rife with social justice warriors that shriek “charge!” Yet they rarely secure, let alone clearly identify, the objective. Megan McKenna is touted as an advocate for affordable housing. Living in affordable housing and working for an advocacy agency does not make one an expert any more than driving a car makes one an automotive engineer. Affordable housing serves best when is it constructed nearest to existing  infrastructure and employment opportunities. This also mitigates traffic congestion. As reported in The Park Record by Alexander Cramer on Nov. 15, 2020, during  McKenna’s time as a science teacher, she was among the 10 Park City High School teachers who had formed a new chapter of the American Federation of Teachers  (AFT). They say that the situation (the administration’s COVID-19 response) at the high school became untenable. The AFT is an affiliate of the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, or AFL-CIO. The Park City Education Association, the existing union at the time had nearly 300 members. From the same Park Record article: “Megan McKenna, a science teacher and AFT member, said there’s a common misperception that AFT wants to shut down schools. She said the opposite is true: that by pursuing a hybrid style of learning, schools will be able to meet in-person for longer. ‘This is not something we wanted to do or have time to do,’ McKenna said of the effort to organize a new union. ‘This is something we need to do.”’The choice is simple. Ari, the accomplished collaborator, or Meagan, the instigator. Jerry HeckOakleyThe post Diversity of party appeared first on Park Record.