When Linn County Commissioner Will Tucker was 15 years old, he ran away from home and lived in San Franciscoâs Haight-Ashbury district, which in 1968 was the epicenter of the hippie movement.
âI strung beads for a few weeks and girls would sell them for 50 cents,â Tucker said. âI saw the good and bad in people.â
Tucker chose to do good things in life, a decision that has guided his decision-making ever since.
Tuesday, with only 48 hours left, the clock was ticking on Tuckerâs time in office. But phone calls from constituents in need â flooding, a neighborâs garbage pile, squatters â continued rolling into his temporary office in the county courthouse in Albany.