text: On Lynn Gatis-- no, it isn't that she didn't get out enough with the people. She is neither liked nor disliked in the Valley and her being busy with special sessions was not a problem. What sank her run was that downright SCARY ad that she had of her holding a knife in front of a cow. Didn't anyone in her campaign tell her that that was a bad idea? 
  
  As much as I could tell that she was having fun, that was a terrible ad so close to the end of the election. She looked like an tipsy cooking show host with bad puns when she should have been trying to warm people's hearts and have us see her as a professional businesswoman and lawmaker. I couldn't figure out her demographic in that photo, and then as if that showing up in our mailboxes wasn't enough, it came up on FaceBook MULTIPLE times. This is not the image that you want voters to carry around in their minds when they go to the polls.