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Sy lan Noble
News Reporter

IN the newly created
West Vancouver-
Sunshine Coast riding
the two contestants fr
the federal Reform party
candidacy take a differ-
ent view of experience.

Political neophyte Axel
Duch and long-time MP and
MLA John Reynolds are vying
for the seat.

The sixty-something Duch
plays up the fact he does not

have any prior political experi-
ence. Duch has been a member
of the party for just’ pwo
months and has campaigned
for the past month, He sad he
has no ties to the past, hidden
agendas or the establishment.

“Pm just me.

“The Reform party stands
for people that they call grass-
roots. They don’t fike politi-
cians from the past to get in
there,” he said.

Duch said the experience
politicians with ties to the past
have “does ’t change anything.

“You v ant to change some-
thing, you have to have new

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voices and new ideas and new
everything. You need to get a
new broom in there.”

Reynolds has truckloads of
experience in politics, He spent
two terms in the 1970s as a
Progressive Conservative MP
in the Burnaby Richmond
Delta riding and served as a
provincial Social Credit MLA
for the West Vancouver: Howe
Sound riding.

He became Speaker of the
B.C. Legislature and rose to
the powerful post of environ-
ment minister in Bill Vander
Zalm’s cabinet.

He’s taken failed stabs at the

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stituency responding to a nega-
tive ad campaign focused
against your candidate’s oppo-
nent in the upcoming con-
stituency nomination.”

Klatt continued: “My con-
clusion is that there is an
orchestrated campaign to dis-
credit a candidate in the (rid-
ing). As to whether it is candi-
date campaign manager driven,
or supporter driven is under
review; however, this strategy is
advocated and illustrated by
campvign solicitors.

“This negative response,
which is g Momentum
hourly, has prompted me to
contact the constituency presi-
dent, candidate selection com-
mittee, and request a hearing
with the board of directors.”

Sinclair and Duch say they
“have asked for names of people

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who have complained about
the Duch campaign’s tactics
and information on what they
said, but the local party brass
have not offered the com-
plainants’ names.

“It is hurting Axel’s cam-
paign by having people contin-
ually accuse us of having done
something wrong,” said
Sinclair. “It nurts us when
other members — we’re all in
the same party — think we're
damaging Mr. Reynolds’ repu-
tation.

“We need to know the
names of the people that are
supposedly doing something
wrong.”

When reached by the News,
Klatt wouldn’t provide the
names of those who had com-
plained.

He called the issue a routine
internal party matter and added
there was no accusation that

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Duch or anyone else was in on
a smear campaign.

“I don’t have any names for
you or anybody else.

“Maybe there are no names,
if (Duch) doesn’t have any
names.”

When asked why the issue
was raised, Klatt said he had no
comment.

Constituency association
president Drummond added
Duch has not been accused of
unethical conduct.

“We have had a number of
people call to us oudining (that
Duch) campaign members
have issued some statements
about the opposition that may
not be in the best interest of
Reform. We asked that if this
was going on that they speak to
their campaign people and ask
them to stop. We sent letters
out to both campaigns.”

He said the letter stated that

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Conservatives and the provin-
cial Socreds. He lost his provin-
cial seat in 1991, when dis-
grontled voters tossed the
Socreds out of power.

Said Reynolds: “Duch is a
pilot —- 2 professional one.
Would you recommend any-
body get in a plane and fly with
somebody who didn’t have
experience?

“I think politics is as impou -
tant as anything else.
Experience counts.”

Duch became a pilot in the
Royal Danish Air Force. He left
the force in 1955 and moved to

alleged

nominees were responsible for
libelous or slanderous com-
ments made by people working
on their behalf. P

When asked what kinds of
things were said that were not
in the best interest of Reform,
Drummond said: “I don’t
know what was said. They were
not statements made to me.”

Drummond, who said he
must remain neutral in the
nomination process, added that
Duch’s campaign has never
been asked to stop making
phone calls,

“I'm sorry that it’s reached
this stage. It’s just an unfortu-
nate thing that we wish hadn't
happened and people got pret-
ty excited and were phoning
and complaining : so we issued a
letter. That's all.” he said.

According to Duch, his
telephone campaigners merely

ed party members if they

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Canada to become a pilot for
Canadian Pacific Airlines.

After his first wife died in
1964, the grief-stricken Duch
sought new surroundings.

He landed in Vietnam and
started a six-year stint as a pilot
for Air Vietnam. There he mar-
ried his Chinese wite Mimi.

The Ambleside resident has
been a self-employed aviation
consultant since 1984.

Duch said he’s been apoliti-
cal most of his life.

“Pve been like most people.
I look at TV and then I say
things and then I get mad and
upset because of the arrogant

would be attending nomina-
tion meetings, which run from
April 12 in Powell River to
April 17 &: Vest Vancouver.

The campaigners gave a
short backgrounder on Duch,
who bills himself as someone
who is not a professional polit-
cian, and then asked members
if they would be interested in
volunteering.

“There’s one thing for sure
in all this,” said Sinclair, “most
(executive members) try to be
fair and equal, but it is obvious
there’s many of them that give
preference to Mr. Reynolds.”

Reynolds would not com-
ment on whether he had heard
from anybody who reccived
calls from Duch workers
allegedly smearing his name.
Reynolds said his team will
begin their phone campaign
later this week.

—— ian@nsnews.com

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leadership we have and all chese
wasteful programs.”

He said he entered politics
because of On the Take, a book
that paints an unflattering por-
trait of Brian Mulroney's
Conservatives.

Reynolds is now chairman
of the board of Vitality
Products, a Vancouver Stock
Exchange-listed vitamin and
mineral supplement company
Reynolds hopes to build up
after a merger with another
company.

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