Don Persson key to making city safer | Letter to the editor

I enthusiastically encourage voters to keep Don Persson on the Renton City Council. I’ve worked with Don for 12 years on council and earlier when he was deputy police chief. Don is a tireless advocate for public safety who has never taken a break from crime fighting. After he retired his badge and gun, he began applying his extraordinary insight about gangs and crime to implement the programs that make our city safer.

October 27, 2011 6:05 pm

I enthusiastically encourage voters to keep Don Persson on the Renton City Council. I’ve worked with Don for 12 years on council and earlier when he was deputy police chief.  Don is a tireless advocate for public safety who has never taken a break from crime fighting.  After he retired his badge and gun, he began applying his extraordinary insight about gangs and crime to implement the programs that make our city safer.

Don is also a respected regional representative for Renton transportation, who has played a key role in getting road funding from county, state, and federal governments.  He strongly supports our neighborhoods with his policy decisions and his volunteer work. He was a founder of Renton River Days and a Renton Citizen of the Year.

My council colleagues and I have elected Don to council president three times, and all of us  have endorsed his reelection campaign.

Randy Corman

Renton