Paula Lamanna (Douglas County Commissioner Board District 2, Washington, candidate 2024)
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Paula Lamanna (No party preference) ran for election to the Douglas County Commissioner Board District 2 in Washington. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Lamanna completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Paula Lamanna provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 7, 2024:
- Birth date: December 9, 1976
- Birth place: Standpoint, Idaho
- High school: Eastmont
- Associate: Wenatchee Valley College, 1998
- Bachelor's: WSU And UOP, 2014
- Gender: Female
- Profession: Teacher / Business Owner
- Incumbent officeholder: No
Elections
General election
General election for Douglas County Commissioner Board District 2
Randy Agnew and Paula Lamanna ran in the general election for Douglas County Commissioner Board District 2 on November 5, 2024.
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Douglas County Commissioner Board District 2
Randy Agnew, Austin Flemens, Katie L. Shafer, Jimmy Sherrell, and Paula Lamanna ran in the primary for Douglas County Commissioner Board District 2 on August 6, 2024.
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| Katie L. Shafer (R) | ||
| Jimmy Sherrell (R) | ||
| Paula Lamanna (No party preference) | |
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Election results
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Lamanna in this election.
Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Paula Lamanna completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lamanna's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My name is Paula Lamanna, I graduated from Eastmont high school and have lived and worked in this Community for many years. I have a degree in agricultural sciences and business management. I understand the cohesion of conservation and infrastructure development. I’m a real estate agent so I have an understanding of zoning, planning, and permitting. I worked 10 years with the US Forest service and did biological sciences, wilderness/ ORV trail crew, and firefighting. I worked for County PUD and WDFW doing tagging of fish, coho restoration projects, riparian area restoration, and watershed restoration. I was a foster parent for seven years and worked with homeless and at risk youth. I am educated in project management and I feel that is one of my greatest assets for becoming commissioner. I understand our community I have immersed myself in a lot of different areas and I absolutely love the diversity of the community we live in. In my free time, I rock climb, hike, and snowboard with my sons. We also tend to YouTube how to fix our own vehicles, it’s definitely an adventure raising two boys! We also enjoy theater and musicals in every area of our community.
- First and foremost, I’d like to be the voice of our community. I want all areas of the community to feel comfortable reaching out to us as commissioners to express their needs. Our community is where life happens. It is important to know if we are missing groups or cultural areas due to lack of communication or inability to reach us and explain their needs. I want to lead through transparency and understanding as we grow this community together.
- I would like to help create a sustainable infrastructure growth that provides safety for our farmers and natural resources, along with benefiting our community members with housing, parks, Small business growth, and Douglas County working together for the greater good of all of us. Long-range planning, and including all demographics will really help us build together.
- We really need to take a look at affordable housing, homeless rate and more available resources for mental health health in our community. When we have more availability for mental health accessibility, we are able to assist with the homeless and drug problem, and create places where they can go and be a part of the community again. There’s a lot to unpack with this one, but it’s definitely an area of need. My hope is that this will also create more jobs and continually benefit our community
I would say, economic development, and social services. People are truly my passion and creating an environment that can help all members of our community is what I would strive for. We’re all in this together, this is where life happens, it’s also the place when disaster happens we all come together to help each other. That is what I love most about our County when it comes down to it, we really work together well and genuinely care about the well-being of others. I want to make that connection stronger so as a community, we can discuss and listen to the needs of every facet that makes us Douglas County.
To be honest, I look up to both my children. They are growing up in a generation that I have a hard time understanding sometimes. They are uniquely themselves and they don’t care what people think if they get made fun of her how they dress or what they listen to it doesn’t phase them. Both my sons are athletes and theater kids. They are uniquely and happily who they are. I strive to be a better person every single day because of them. When I think I can’t, they encourage me that I can do anything just like I told them they could. When I’m stuck with a problem and find me 1 million solutions! They have read more books than I probably have in my lifetime, and I’m an avid reader. They set the bar pretty high for accomplishing goals and it helps me remember that I too can accomplish anything. I set my mind too. I love their freestyle, but dedication to learning and becoming more. That is why my children Are the two humans I look up to the most.
The atlas of the heart by Brené Brown
Integrity, and transparency, are characteristics that I seek as a leader in my field.
I believe a commissioner listens to the community they serve and does the best they can at making decisions that benefit the community, socially, economically, financially, and culturally. It also means that we have to make hard decisions on where to allocate funds and keep everything on time and on budget when it comes to project management.
Transparency and accountability are key. The one thing I always tell my children is the truth does not need to be defended and the truth will always come out. It is better to be upfront about facts are facts. In tough financial situations, there’s always a chance somebody has experienced the situation and may have skills from their experience to provide to us the ability to grow and learn from. Transparency provides open communication and increases the possibilities of finding answers outside of our scope of practice.
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See also
2024 Elections
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