A Lifetime of Service To Campbell County
Garrett For Campbell County Commissioner
Campbell County Businessman Peter Garrett announced he is a candidate for Campbell County Commissioner District 2. Garrett owns and operates Peter Garrett Gunsmiths, Inc., the oldest gunsmithing shop in the state of Kentucky. A life long resident of Campbell County, Garrett lives on his third generation family farm in southern Campbell County.
Garrett has engaged in civic and political activity for more than 30 years. He was a founding member of the Newport Political Action Committee. NEWPAC was responisble for reforms that led to political stability in Newport. This stability was the cornerstone for projects such as the Newport Aquarium, Newport on the Levee, the rebirth of Monmouth Street and many other projects.
Garrett, a Republican, said “Running a business in Newport and living on a farm in Campbell County has made me very familiar with issues that affect the people living in our community”. Garrett is the son of Kentucky Historian and Deputy Coroner the late Dr. Morris Garrett.
Campbell County Commission District 2 covers parts of Dayton, Bellevue, Ft. Thomas, Silver Grove, Cold Spring, Ross and California.
ON THE ISSUES
I will represent the entire County. I live on my 3rd generation family farm in southern Campbell County.
I own one of the oldest businesses in Newport, established in 1874.
I travel Rt. 8, the AA highway, and US 27 or Licking Pike every day. I know and experience the entire County every day.
I am on the Board of Directors of the Campbell County Conservancy. We are dedicated to preserving and restoring Campbell County’s natural areas and way of life. Campbell County’s $75,000 North Star Study states that Campbell County’s rural appeal is a huge economic asset. I am intimately involved with preserving and promoting this asset through my involvement with the Farmland Work Group, the Campbell County Conservancy and the Campbell County Soil Conservation District. We get one chance at this. It is the future of Campbell County.
Economic development is best achieved by making Campbell County an attractive place to live and work. We need to lead by example.
Campbell County Fiscal Court should comply with the Northern Kentucky Sewer District’s rainwater deflection program. Some businesses are already complying with this and all of us will have to in the near future. The new Campbell County Administration building is not in compliance with the Newport Green Space Ordinance, but you would have to be if you built a new building in Newport.
I was Business Representative to the Newport Citizens Advisory Council and New-Pac. These two organizations began and promoted Newport’s renaissance. We now have a viable Business District and improved community.
Campbell County farmers are very important to the County’s appeal and a major economic force. They are the highest taxed and regulated farms in all of Kentucky’s 120 counties. Excessive taxing and regulating farmers is taxing locally grown food, which is a regressive tax.
Campbell County tax forms and procedures are too complicated and need to be revamped. They are the most complicated and invasive tax forms we execute, even more than Federal, State and Newport.
It is time that someone who can represent the entire county is elected and I am that candidate.