I’d like to thank all those who supported my candidacy for the OPALCO board.

Please continue to monitor OPALCO’s plans and actions and encourage other members to participate. It’s a crucial time of risk and change for the electric co-op we own.

I especially want to thank Gray Cope for helping me understand the current state of affairs. We members are very lucky to have an informed, independent individual so devoted to learning not only what OPALCO is doing, but how, and what it is likely to result in.

Gray put together an internet forum for OPALCO members to learn from and contribute to. It is not run by the co-op, it’s completely independent. Please visit opalcoforum.info.

Congratulations to the reelected incumbents, Vince and Glenna. I hope you’ll work to improve the transparency of the board, and to guide it in the true best interests of the general membership, not just for the theories of an influential minority, at the expense of all electric ratepayers.

Steve Hudson, Friday Harbor