Ben Lomond resident, businessman and local political activist Tom Decker celebrated Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. In the fall, Decker wore a Donald Trump hat for two months around Santa Cruz County, hoping to engage in conversations about policy. He expected opposition, but mostly he found tacit support. Now that Trump is the 47th president, Decker outlines three Trump policies he supports – on immigration, taxes and oil – and says we should all feel good about our future.
Tom Decker
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Why Trump won (and what the media missed along the way)
Boulder Creek businessman Tom Decker does the math on Donald Trump’s election win and has a ready answer for the Republican sweep – the mainstream media failed to grasp or adequately cover Trump’s appeal. They didn’t, he says, even report on the substance of his rallies.
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Show me the money: Supervisors have ‘balanced’ county budget with more than $100 million in federal IOUs – that is bad business
Tom Decker, a businessman, builder of affordable homes and a former candidate for the District 5 supervisor job, has taken a look at Santa Cruz County’s 2024-25 budget and is left scratching his head. The numbers, he writes, don’t add up and depend on more than $100 million in IOUs from the federal government. How, he then wonders, can the supervisors – or any of us – consider it balanced?
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Tom Decker for District 5 supervisor: Let’s stop the bureaucracy that has provided ‘amazingly poor service’ to our community
Tom Decker believes his experience as a builder of affordable homes and his commitment to family and service make him an ideal candidate for District 5 supervisor.