Meet Ronald Beaty

2024 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
BARNSTABLE COUNTY COMMISSIONER

1.) Age and Personal Info.

63 years old. Married for 30 years to my wife, Chanda.

2.) Residence

West Barnstable, Massachusetts

3.) Education

B.A. in American Studies, M.S. in Administrative Studies from Boston College; M.Ed. in Educational Technology from Lesley University.

4.) Employment

30 years of experience in Real Estate Management

5.) Political Experience

Former Barnstable County Commissioner (2017 - 2021); Long-time Prominent Regional Community Activist on numerous issues of importance; Long-time Open Meeting Law Advocate dedicated to maintaining the public transparency and accountability of State, County and local governmental bodies.

6.) Other Civic Experience

Board of Directors, Cape & Vineyard Electric Cooperative; Governing Board, Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative; Board of Directors (Chief Elected Officer), Cape & Islands Workforce Investment Board; Executive Board, Barnstable County Economic Development Council; AmeriCorps Advisory Board; Barnstable County Health and Human Services Advisory Council;

7.) Why are you running?

I have decided to run for County Commissioner in order to restore local control, balance, transparency, and fiscal accountability to our Cape Cod Regional Government.

As a former county commissioner, I have the requisite experience and qualifications to restore local control, transparency and fiscal accountability with the Barnstable County government. I aim to reign in the expanding county bureaucracy and put the brakes on the out-of-control wind energy industry invading Cape Cod shores with its enormous power cables and potential pollution and contamination of our public water supplies and sole source aquifer. Elected public officials need to respond to and represent the interests of residents, something that has been sorely lacking on Cape Cod in recent years. That is my top priority!

Cape Cod voters who believe in: Limited Government, Fiscal Responsibility, Lower Taxes, Transparency & Accountability, as well as Protecting the Public Interest, and want to help restore these key principles to our Cape Cod Regional Government should know I represent the best opportunity to achieve these objectives.

8.) What is the most pressing issue in your district, and how would you address it?

Surging housing prices have grown to be a shocking dilemma throughout Massachusetts, however on Cape Cod in particular, the crunch is even more critical. While the peninsula’s profound attractiveness and shorelines make it an appealing venue for the wealthy to indulge in holiday residences, it has also forced up home costs so dramatically that the year-round population is battling to survive.

Barnstable County continues to suffer from a dearth of affordable housing in general, and a shortage of affordable rental housing specifically. Affordable, diverse, smaller scale rental housing is needed throughout the County. The gap between the median annual income and the cost of housing continues to widen at the same time as average household size declines on Cape Cod generally, creating a demand for smaller units affordable to the County's population.

One approach to expand Cape Cod's housing supply and boost the quantity of small units is by forthrightly enhancing the present housing stock with Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). The American Planning Association depicts Accessory Dwelling Units as smaller, autonomous residential dwelling units situated on the same lot as a single-family home.

Accessory Dwelling Units can be a significant means to strengthen housing affordability here, where a profusion of seasonal housing units sit vacant for a great deal of the year. In those areas of the County with reduced infrastructure and vulnerable habitats, particularly in the more rural portions, ADUs will be an ongoing and important component of meeting Barnstable County's housing affordability question.

9.) How do you differ from the other candidates?

For the position in question, I am the only sensible conservative candidate who values limited government, fiscal responsibility, individual liberty, and adherence to the Massachusetts and U. S. Constitutions.

Unlike my opponents, I am a knowledgeable Open Meeting Law Advocate, and Cape area community and political activist relating to a range of issues such as county government fiscal matters, restructuring, county-level recall election provision issues, the Cape Cod Commission and its land use planning activities, wastewater and water quality policy, housing and zoning legislation, as well as illegal immigration to name but a few of the important issues I have confronted. I am a life-long resident of the Cape who possesses the graduate level education, and professional real estate experience to make well informed decisions.

Also, unlike my opponents, if elected, I will work hard to reduce taxes at all levels, downsize and help remove the regulatory burden of government, and reduce the unnecessarily high cost of living for Cape Cod residents wherever and whenever possible. Moreover, I am a loyal ally of Cape Cod taxpayers who staunchly defends our free enterprise system and will actively seek to create a positive and friendly business environment within the fifteen towns of the Cape. Pursuing a sensible approach to economic development on Cape Cod will be one of my top priorities because that is the key to halting the continuing outflow of the Cape’s younger generation.

10.) What other information would you like voters to know about you or your policy positions?

Unlike the present Board of County Commissioners, I strongly support our police departments, and firmly believe that the Cape Cod Municipal Police Training Academy should be fully supported and responsibly funded to help ensure public safety in our respective Cape communities!

When elected, I will immediately begin to excise the bureaucratic cancer that apparently infests our Barnstable County Government as well as remove the rampant waste and abuse that has unquestionably become the hallmark of the progressive Democrats currently in control.

Furthermore, as a consumer advocate, I believe that Cape Codders have the right to be free from outrageous food, housing, and gasoline prices! They also have the right to be protected from unfair and deceptive practices, including those perpetuated by the Biden Administration!

As an advocate for parental rights in education, I believe that parents have the right to know what their children are being taught. Parents have the right to be heard, protect their kid’s privacy, and keep them safe. I suggest that the mission of public schools is supposed to be education of children, not indoctrination and controlling what they think! Teaching children right from wrong is the parents’ responsibility, not the public school system.