Throwback Thursday: He ran, he won.
The Jan. 10, 2000 issue of National Home Center News, the forerunner of HBSDealer, featured a front page article covering the political aspirations of Mark Wyland, co-owner of Pine Tree Lumber of Escondido, Calif.
Twenty years ago, Wyland ran for a state assembly seat in California, hoping to use his experience as a pro dealer and lumberyard operator to promote the concerns of the business community. He explained to a reporter his reason for running: "We need more businesspeople in [political] office. We complain about what the government does to us, but we don't do anything about it."
Wyland, then 54 years old, won the race for a two-year state assembly seat in the 74th District, which covers the north portion of San Diego County. The Republican served in the assembly through 2006, then won a seat in the California State Senate, representing District 38 from 2006 to 2014.
Back in 2000, the article explained that Wyland successfully raised funds from a variety of lumber and building material sources, including Dixieline Lumber and Home Centers, Pine Tree’s chief competitor at the time. Some of the candidate’s hot-button issues were overtime regulations that wreaked havoc on truck drivers’ work schedules, and lien laws that punished many building material dealers saddled with bad debts.
“I’m not suggesting we don’t have rules,” Wyland told National Home Center News. What he objected to is “overregulation, or just plain stupid regulations.”
Twenty years ago, Wyland ran for a state assembly seat in California, hoping to use his experience as a pro dealer and lumberyard operator to promote the concerns of the business community. He explained to a reporter his reason for running: "We need more businesspeople in [political] office. We complain about what the government does to us, but we don't do anything about it."
Wyland, then 54 years old, won the race for a two-year state assembly seat in the 74th District, which covers the north portion of San Diego County. The Republican served in the assembly through 2006, then won a seat in the California State Senate, representing District 38 from 2006 to 2014.
Back in 2000, the article explained that Wyland successfully raised funds from a variety of lumber and building material sources, including Dixieline Lumber and Home Centers, Pine Tree’s chief competitor at the time. Some of the candidate’s hot-button issues were overtime regulations that wreaked havoc on truck drivers’ work schedules, and lien laws that punished many building material dealers saddled with bad debts.
“I’m not suggesting we don’t have rules,” Wyland told National Home Center News. What he objected to is “overregulation, or just plain stupid regulations.”