Keli Lucero is a knowledgeable worker willing and well-equipped to learn and handle new jobs and positions. Having known Ms. Lucero for approximately 20 years as an employee, mother, and friend, I can guarantee she can handle any situation.

Ms. Lucero ran my husband’s dental office for several years as a professional office manager and dental assistant. She quickly learned, understood, and applied correct and necessary procedures in the new environment. Her leadership abilities grew strong and her thick-skinned attitude and ability to confess to and correct mistakes made her invaluable to the doctor and the other employees.

As a mother, she took every moment, looked at its possibilities, and made the best, educated choices for her children. Mothers with children who require different ways of reacting to their world learn to navigate through levels of complexity that others could never fully understand. This journey taught her to be humble and grateful. Keli Lucero continues to keep her sights on the needs of her family and still keeps her involvement with the community and its demands.

As a friend, she’s priceless. She has extraordinary observation skills, understands the necessity for healthy communication, and has a way of looking at conflict fairly and with an open mind.

Keli Lucero is ready to step into the job as an elected official. She has an extraordinary ability to use her knowledge of time management effectively. Her current position as a certified peer counselor provides a phenomenal benefits package with over seven weeks of yearly paid time off plus flex hours to accommodate this new role. Her parental requirements and her continued fostering of her happy and healthy marriage fit well with the duties of an elected official. She has learned to use flexibility to her advantage!

That’s who she is now. It’s time for her to upgrade her life and show her family, old bosses, community, and friends that she has achieved the ability to embrace the demands, joys, and importance of being an elected official.

CANDACE CARTEEN

Ocean Park