‘CHING to flex that democratic muscle? If not, you should be. Voters don’t get 2 chance to do much flexing during their time in our democratic system. On the municipal range, it’s but once every three y years. And in that brief: election day opportunity, local " voters get a chance.to. select a school . board, 2 municipal ‘council and a ‘mayor. That’s a whole lot of flexing in a single day. -. Unfortunately, most residents don’t “think much of flexing their democratic muscles: at all. Especially on the home- front of municipal elections. “Te has Geen said in this paper many -‘thines before, but it bears repeating: _Jocal voter turnout to’ municipal elec- - tons is poor, and at times, verges on “non-existent. ©. You. can. argue that such response income generation ‘Income generation. . they. are both singularly related The; first: concerns, the police speed op of Third Street hill. “we. séc enough. foul. of. road rebels + we ® have i in 4 avoid power Joss on. particularly dan- ought to be able, bec signage and merging of traffic gs the ‘curbs’ are always “debris ‘before. the invisible : sc cahanding chicanery for ; ervice to boot. VIEW reflects a satisfied electorate; you can argue that there are too many candi- dates running for any resident to make a proper assessment of those running for the myriad positions being contest- ed; you could argue that you have too much to do on Saturday to allocate the time to vote. ; You could argue whatever you want, burt there’s no excuse for not getting involved in the basic maintenance of local democracy. Regardless of what the cynical would have you believe, your vote counts, your involvernent makes a dif- ference. And if you don’t vote you don’t have the right to complain about how your municipality is being run. Secure your right to compiain and. invest in the well-being of your com- munity. Cast your ballot tomorrow for - the best candidates available. § GROW UP {°*™ GONNA BE ‘PRIME MINISTER HAETA GET RIP g OF PME FIRST, E _ Derrick’s democrat ic dus DEMOCRACY in West _ Vancouver: On Nov. 12 something remarkable, per- ened. The micro- . chairman of haps unprecedented, hap) plione of Derrick Hump! a mayoral all-candidates Meeting sponsored by . » the West Vancouver. ~ Chamber of Comnierce, ° “was cut off by aewish . chamber president Banry ~ Lloyd. Hurnphreys <> claimed he was being “censored.” He left. "Tf you read no far-- . ther, know this:. It says a ~ here that Lloyd was - ‘absolutely right. ; Charitably, Humphreys’: “health problems skewed his jadgmenit. Alternatively, he displayed either:: pee ly bad politi man_of his experience, or utter arro; judgment for a | ice “in thinking that he could mix the role,of - sanship. : "neutral political referee with obvious parti-- hours after his abbreviated chairing of the! -< meeting, a post office mailing — which, - «Humphreys ¢ told me, he paid for himself - — , begat arriving at 18,000 households: * Humphreys’ personal slate i in tomorrow's uni clestions. * y; Bt gcoisite of ump hey political power on the North Shore former anda’ for "For, the following Monday: ess than'72" decades — could not possibly have made __ . up his mind about the best candidates and’ ~ had the printing and distribution of his... slate ‘carried out between the Friday meet- ing and Monday. His choice for i mayor is Roni ‘Wood: ‘He -. as chief executive “of the KRF, about subsidizing uni * told me that his mayor and council picks © “coincidentally mirrored those’ of the West. Vaacouver Citizens for Good Government. Humphreys stoutly (furiously would be more accurate) defended his actions, main- tained that he chaired the meetings impar- tially, and insisted he had the democratic right to speak ont for the — ’ ‘candidates he chose, I said it was a “Caesar’s wife” issuc. He'd never heard of it. . He said he had asked | . @qually “hard questions” of all four mayoral cand had sought to represent, col : for ark Royal. : Shopping C Centre’s side in the storm box” stores battle. : ; Danyliu denied this, In his former zole officer of the Kinsmen : ‘Rehabilitation Fouridation (KRE), he told _ ine, he had talked with Shiraz Lalji, of Park owner Larco, an honorary director’ for the seriously disabled at Larco’s Arbutus Village development in Vaitcouver. Ni benefit to Danyliu::) ‘Danylia said the question asked ‘of hit at the candidates’, mectirig “sounded like "d asked for a bribe, the bribe wasn’t big enough, and I’d turned against (Park : “Royals Ps) big boxes.”: : ition to the big boxes is a matter ma ope . He doesn’ t blame the: eh om id came from. the audience, ¥ have my suspi- ‘dens, but Tim not going to say. ”) : " inténded io re yale . When ‘Loyd learned that Hiimphreys t the question at the No - 12 meeting, Lloyd informed the candidat “just before the meeting: then tried to’ suade: Humphreys, Het bega an to ask the _ Question anywa That's. ee meen that hie had equally umphreys insists that he had eq) “hard ‘ questions” for all fotir candidates The “hard questio: c wh -.. Humphreys publicly endorsed with ‘days was along the lines of:'Ho job as mayo ' “The plot thicke: yor Patti Boname talked wid Humphreys: