Stanton Kee Nethery III (Sebastopol City Council At-large, California, candidate 2024)
Stanton Kee Nethery III ran for election to the Sebastopol City Council At-large in California. He was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Nethery completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Stanton Kee Nethery III provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 3, 2024:
- Birth date: March 27, 1957
- Birth place: Freeport, Texas
- High school: Bellaire High School
- Bachelor's: Texas A & M University, 1979
- Gender: Male
- Religion: None
- Profession: Electrical Engineer
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Don't have a slogan.
- Campaign website
Elections
General election
General election for Sebastopol City Council At-large (2 seats)
Phillip Carter, Neysa Hinton, and Stanton Kee Nethery III ran in the general election for Sebastopol City Council At-large on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| Phillip Carter (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Neysa Hinton (Nonpartisan) | ||
Stanton Kee Nethery III (Nonpartisan)  | ||
| ||||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Election results
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Nethery in this election.
Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Stanton Kee Nethery III completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Nethery's responses.
| Collapse all
- I think I can add some sanity to the decisions the City Council needs to make going forward to get us out of the financial mess Sebastopol is currently in today. Sebastopol is currently spending $700,000 more than it takes in with a $15,000,000 budget. This cannot continue. We will eventually run out of the savings we are drawing from.
- My second priority is to make sure that Sebastopol, with its own aquifer, does not draw it down such that we run out of water. Sebastopol running out of water is not an immediate concern. There is no reason we can't prepare for the future and make sure it is never a concern. Cities in California have run out of water and it's not a good situation for them.
- Regardless whether you vote for me or not, please vote for Measure U, the 1/2% Sebastopol Sales Tax increase that will last for 12 years. The previous city budget was over spending way more than $700,000 and cost savings were found to get down to the current bleed rate of $700K per year without dropping any city employees. This 1/2% adder will help the city survive while it trims costs further.
The merchants I've talked to say that the 1/2% increase in sales taxes will not noticeably affect their business. Cutting city services without that extra Measure U funding will affect their businesses.
Please do vote for Measure U.
There needs to be more small affordable housing in town.
The traffic situation is really annoying, perhaps there's a way to get traffic to flow more efficiently.
We need to find small businesses that can thrive in this age of internet online commerce.
Our underground water / sewage system has had too much deferred maintenance. How are you going to cope if you have no water supply due to a pipe failure, or you cannot flush your toilet because a sewer pipe has failed. You do not want this stuff to fail.
"Lawn Chair Larry" tied a bunch of helium balloons to a lawn chair, had a pellet gun to shoot balloons to descend, food, water, and a radio to communicate to friends on the ground. His plan was perfect EXCEPT on that day, prevailing winds were blowing west. Took him towards LAX airspace instead of towards the Nevada desert. When I first heard of that my thought was "Why didn't I think of that?"
He story ending poorly, he could not handle the fame. But his accomplishment was so daring and once described, so obvious, I admire him.
There was a SciFi book where citizens could log into a system; propose and debate issues. It would be nice if our democracy allowed for something more useful than the City Council meetings. There are a ton of really smart people here in Sebastopol and I'd like some way to pull on their expertise other than a 2 minute comment during the City Council meeting.
Actually several folks in the past year have told me I should run for city council. I can dig into an issue. I can be dispassionate in discussions. I really like fact based decisions. I can read and understand financial reports. And I can tell the difference between spending money to make people happy short term versus long term.
"The Martian" by Andy Weir was great SciFi mainly because he wrote a great story and except for a couple of plot points, all the science was correct.
The Expanse series by "James S A Corey" (aka Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) is also a great story and most of the tech is future feasible. No transporters or holodecks or replicators.
Martha Wells has a SciFi series "The Murderbot Diaries" and they are short novels that are fun to read. Start with "All Systems Red" and read them in order.
In the last several years, humanity learned how to analyze the DNA of a virus, and design an mRNA molecule that teaches your body how to build defenses against that virus.
For several weeks, I had my car drive me from Sebastopol to Berkeley and back with me just observing. Granted it drove like a teen who had just learned to drive but it got me there safely, and back. Astonishing.
A few years ago, I saw two rockets return from space and land together on separate landing pads. Just like in all the SciFi stories since the 1920s and it happened in my lifetime.
Douglas Adams wrote the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which had a device that could answer almost every question posed to it. Sadly he died in 2001. The first iPhone came out in 2007. Today we all carry a hitchhiker's guide in our pocket. At its most basic, it's a smartphone connected to Wikipedia.
You know how many entities have put people into orbit? Russia, United States, China, and oh yes, SpaceX and Boeing (sort of, they're close).
When I was a kid, making a telephone call to the other side of the city (Houston) cost money. Today I can call other continents and it's included in my normal monthly fee.
I had a friend in high school who recorded all his favorite albums onto 8-track tapes and listened to them exclusively. Within 6 months he couldn't stand "that noise" on the radio. This was 1974. Think of all the amazing music from 1974 and onward and he was stuck in his 8-tracks.
He gave me his Steely Dan album "Aja" because he didn't like it. I listened to it once. I loved Steely Dan but this music made no sense to me. I listened twice and some of the songs were OK. On the third listen it was as if the clouds had parted and angels were delivering these songs. It was glorious. It took three listens for my mind to understand and adjust to what they were doing. I still love the album Aja.
I vowed to only listen to popular music on the radio to keep me current with new music. I got exposed to Korean Popular music "K-Pop" and for now, that's what I mostly listen to. Mostly it's in Korean so I have to look at an English translation if I'm curious what they are singing about. The music is so joyful. I got started with the group BTS and with more exposure started recognizing more and more groups.
I've learned to be an extrovert. I took a technical sales job after college to be constantly presenting in front of strangers. I've taught numerous classes to audiences of over a thousand. I can "work" a room, speak to everyone. I chat with strangers on the street. I'd say half the CEOs I know are introverts like me who have learned to be an extrovert when it's needed. It's a skill that can be learned.
I'd like to propose that when the city emerges from all this negative spending, that future (not existing) city council members have pay that is at least minimum wage. If YOU want to run for city council, you should be able to afford to do so.
A former CEO such as myself is like a Navy Captain, giving orders, having them be obeyed. CEOs do not make good politicians.
Politics is like herding cats and it's the opposite of a CEO. They need to coerce and listen and find a middle ground. A community organizer is skilled at consensus.
Yes, I'm a former CEO. And by my definition, I'm not the ideal candidate. Right now Sebastopol needs a lot of financial, organizational, and forward looking problems solved and that is my skill set.
Can you imagine driving your car with a gas gauge that only displays your tank level every three months? That's crazy. No wonder the city is spending way more than it is taking in.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
|
Candidate Sebastopol City Council At-large |
Footnotes
