UPPER LAKE – District 3 Supervisor Denise Rushing said this week that she will seek reelection.
Rushing, 51, currently is in her first term on the Board of Supervisors, and in 2009 served as board chair. She was elected in 2006.
“The opportunity to represent District 3 is an honor,” Rushing said in a statement she issued to Lake County News.
Rushing's seat, along with that of District 2 Supervisor Jeff Smith, will be on the June 8 ballot. In the case runoff elections become necessary, they will be decided in November.
She said she's seeking another term because “there is so much more to do.”
Rushing pointed to a need to continue working on several issues, including fostering a healthy local economy, creating jobs, encouraging local food security and energy efficiency, improving the health of Clear Lake via Middle Creek wetlands restoration and watershed management, and much more.
The board and the community have many successes they can celebrate, Rushing said.
Those successes range from preserving Mt. Konocti, to completion of the county's new general plan of development, to the installation of more than three megawatts of solar energy projects – including one of the largest in the Western U.S. – as well as economic revitalization efforts on the Northshore.
Rushing holds an engineering degree from Stanford University, and a master's degree in culture and spirituality from Holy Names University.
She's spent two decades working for energy and technology companies around Northern California, where she was born and raised.
Rushing is a mother of two grown children, and lives on an 11-acre organic farm in Upper Lake with her partner, Loretta McCarthy.
To see Rushing's full statement on her plans to seek reelection, click here: Rushing: There is more work to do together .
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