~ North Shore News — Friday, April 7, 2000 Local campaign CXPEHS' Unions, pubs among city contributors Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter adangelo@nsnews.com BARBARA Sharp got help from local unions and pubs in her success- ful bid for North Vancouver City mayor last fall. Sharp spent $18,463.33 in election expenses. She received $900 from the union that represents North Vancouver City (NVC) staff: the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 389. Sharp also received $150 from Jack Lonsdale’s Pub and $500 from Sailor Hagar's Pub. Sharp herself contributed $11,354. 24 to her $21,693.76 documented campaign conui- butions. She received an anonymous donation of $200, according to public documents filed fast month at city hall. Sharp’s rival for the $58,457.27 a year full-time miayor’s job was Rod Clark. Clark, a non-incumbent former _ councillor, spent $10,320.40 on his campaign. He received no union contri- butions, but had five corpora- tions and two individuals that cach contributed $250 or less to his cam: In the a councillor’s seats, the top spender was new- comer Craig Keating. Keating ~ seceived $79 7921.51 in contn- . butions and ent within $10 of that during his successful bid for a council seat Keating received a $750. contribution - from CUPE Local 389. -Incumbent Coun. Barbara Perrault was the next biggest spender among the elected councillors with $5,649,89. Perrauft received $8,751.27 in contributions in which she ‘ donated $6,859.28 to herself. OVE NEWS photo Mika Wakefield ELECTION signs decorated lawns and boulevards all over the North Shore last November. Campaign contri- butions and expenses of the various candidates were released recently. Citizens group spent $7,500 Among Perrault’s contribu- tors was Allied Hotel Development, which gave boa to Perrault’s successful paign. Coun. Bill Bell spent $5,236.06 on his campaign and took in $8,252.65 in con- tributions. Like Sharp, Bell received money from local pubs and from the union repre- senting NVC workers. (Council members make policy decisions that affect unionized city staff, but are not their direct supervisors.) Bell received a $652.73 campaign contribution from CUPE Local 389. He got $500 from Sailor Hagar’s Pub Inc. and $300 from the Rusty Gull Neighbourhood Pub. Bell also recorded that he received $250 word: of “wine for victory ” from Cascadia Brands and $300 See Campaign page § CURRENTLY ICKED!! De IC Marcie Good Contributing Writer THE Concerned Citizens have come clean. Members of the mysteri- ous group that advertised and distributed brochures sup- porting a slate of candidates before November’s municipal election recently revealed that they spent $7,507.67 on their campaign Several of the candidates they chose, which included Mayor Don Bell and five of the six current councillors, referred to the money in their campaign contribution docu- ments and explained that they had not consented to the advertising and would not claim it as a donation. One, Coun. Janice Harris, claimed $1,072.52 as 2 cash contribution. Coun. Heather Dunsford claimed the same amount as a donation in kind. In a letter written to the candidates and included in the documents at district hall, Tom Kobayashi of the North Shore Concerned Citizens Group explained that his legal counsel advised the full disclo- sure of the campaign spend- Fe Accordin to Mr. Jonathan Baker, it would appear that 2 strong case could be made that a disclo- sure statement (by candidates) for the unsolicited contribu- tions made by NSCCG is not rrr! 6 MONTHS NO INTEREST ~ NO) PAYMENTS — OAC minimum purchase $400 REE | 1 LOCAL DELIVERY | minimum purchase Makers of the Back Supporter Mattress. Creators of Sleep Fitness nr ; required, However, he is sug- gesting | that an ‘abundance of caution’ be exercised and a statement filed.” The pamphlets mailed to district homes in the week before the Nov. 20 election encouraged residents to vote “no” to the waterfront refer- ¢ndum. They woes viding. ho- to; o ise along the West Vancouver sco wall and warned that “uncon- trollable development” was looming on the North Vancouver shore. No name or ‘number appeared ‘on the See Coun. page S : All instock un i “save like” never before ” FINANCING AVAILABLE OAC MONTEREY - Ba WV mayor's campaign: $26,000 Katharine Hamer News Reporter khamer@nsnews.com ANDY Danyliu paid $100 for a campaign spot on Radio Iran, Russ Fraser spent nearly $200 on umbrellas, and Mayor Ron Wood racked up over $26,000 in elec- tion expenses. Spending and contribu- tions information for West Vancouver candidates in the November 1999 municipal election were made public in March. All of those elected on Nov. 20 last year were recom- mended in a slate by the West Vancouver Citizens for Good Government (WVCGG). The WVCGG is a 350- strong group that gathers at election time to vet potential candidates. 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