Letter to the Editor September 20, 2013

Fortune favored for seat on Loveland City Council

To the editor:

Business owners and working people looking for a city councilor who will understand their pressures and needs will be pleasantly surprised with Irene Fortune’s similar experience during her years at British Petroleum and DuPont – almost 30 years in private industry. Irene advanced from chemist and team leader to managing a laboratory with 70 people and $7 million annual budget. Expenses were under budget every year.

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After Irene moved to Loveland, she applied her corporate skills toward understanding and improving our community through volunteering in many organizations. I know Irene through the work she has done as a vital and responsible member of the League of Women Voters of Larimer County. Her leadership and rational decision-making skills are highly valued in our organization. Her business sense, developed from decades of reading business and financial materials, has been apparent as she’s worked on various studies, like the League’s study of privatization, and when she chaired the League’s Financial Development Team.

Loveland and Lovelanders now have the choice to benefit from skills Irene developed in her long, successful, corporate career.

Irene Fortune would be a great asset to the City Council. I urge a vote for Irene Nov. 5.

Carol Rush
Loveland