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Page 4, March 25, 1979 - Sunday News

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SEYMOUR SOCREDS NOMINATE a
Jack Davis romps home

By VIC HODSON

Some 400 members of the
North Vancouver-Seymour
riding Social Credit
Association enthusiastically
applauded Wednesday night
when Jack Davis was elected
as their candidate in the May
31 byelection.

Ironically, the need for a
byelection was created when
Davis resigned, first as
cabinet minister and later as
MLA, following his fraud
conviction last fall for
d ing airline tickets
issued to hime from first
class to economy.

The majority of the 207
voting delegates present
obviously chose to ignore
the legal findings, because
they quickly elected him on
the first ballot against two
seasoned campaigners,
Anders Aalborg, who was an
MLA and cabinet minister in

the Social Credit govern-.

ment of Alberta from 1984-
67 and Stell Jo Dean, former
alderman of the City of
North Vancouver and noted
collector of other influential
positions in a multitude of
North Shore organizations.

The delegate vote for
Davis must have been im-
pressive — atleast more than
30 percent of the total votes

cast — to ensure a first ballot
win. His success might not-
have been so complete ‘had
former North Van District
alderman Jim Poyner not
backed down.

At least 80 percent of
those present appeared to
range in age from the mid-
forties to the higher brackets
of senior citizens, and they
cheered: and rose in their
seats when 62-year-old Davis
was announced as_ the
winner.

One had the impression
that, with this audience, the
speeches of the three
aspirants were just a tem-
porary formality, to be
enduried until the. voting
started. Actually, Davis
made the shortest speech of
the three. In condensed
form, he said he was running
because he wanted to
continue serving the riding
and the province, adding
that he had always seemed to
attract the “swing” vote of
the uncommitted in all his
previous election victories
and expected to do so again
in this one.

This short declaration.
drew much louder applause
than that for Aalborg who
preceded him with a typical
politicians’ specch, and for
Dean, whose speech was

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more or less a reading from
her promotional sheet
handed out to members as
they entered the mecting
room in the Coach House
Motor Hotel.

In his victory speech Davis
said the eyes of the whole
province would be upon the
two North Shore byelections

and added that the results .

would show that Social
Credit was still the
predominant party in B.C.

“We have got to win these
byelections,” he said,
“because the whole of
Canada will be watching the
results with great interest.”

In a later group interview
Davis was asked whether he
had expected his court case
to be raised. He said he had
thought it might come up,
but was giad it hadn't. When
if he expected to

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return to the cabinet he
tersely declined comment.

Davis was obviously
supported by a large
majority of the assembled
Socreds, but not all were
pleased. One prominent

. Fiding delegate commented

to this reporter that, rather
than vote for Jack Davis, he
would either not vote at all
or would vote for another

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