Journalist Tom Wayne Kramer wrote a very revealing article for the Ukiah Daily Journal, Oct. 12, about incumbent Democrat Assemblyman Wes Chesbro, who has held political office since 1974 and is running for reelection in the First District.

Kramer not only called Chesbro a “counterfeit representative, but added that he is “below substandard, invisible, artificial, a low-functioning mediocrity, a professional puppet who does nothing for voters because nothing is exactly what voters have come to expect.”

The remarkable thing about this article is that Kramer is a fellow Democrat. It shows the high degree of dissatisfaction that even Democrats are having with their own incumbent representatives.

No wonder so many people are wanting a clean slate, a new crop of elected officials who have never held office before, who have never been feeding at the political trough, but are running because of the simple desire to serve their country and state and to get us out of the terrible financial mess we are now in.

Karen Brooks, who is running against Chesbro, is just such a person. I know her personally and am impressed with her passion for her country, her hard work ethics, her desire to get to know, understand and serve her constituents, her common sense ideas and belief in frugality rather than overspending to help save our state. Check her out at www.karenbrooks2010.com .

Orlean Koehle lives in Santa Rosa, Calif.