Al2 - Wednesday, September 1, 1982 - North Shore News

FROM PAGE A1

week's resignation of Mayor
Don Bell, Alderman Peter
Powell and the early
resignation of alderman
Marilyn Baker so she can
run for the mayor's chair.

Alderman Jim Ball said he
has not decided whether to
choose between running
again as alderman or ‘con-
testing Baker’s bid for
mayor.

Speculation in local
political circles is that Ball
would rather not run against
Baker - who has age and
moderate image on her side
and is. being heavily
promoted by Don Bell while
another community heavy-
weight, Derek Inman, is to
work as her campaign
manager. However, he may
be under pressure to run
from TAGG as the group
grasps at the idea of electing
a redneck mayor.

Careful, Jim.

Ball had told the News
when earlier asked about
TAGG: “I have heard
rumors but I haven't been
Officially approached up to
this point. I would prefer we
didn’t have to have any
organized backing but it may
be necessary. I will have to
look at it as time runs
along.”

“If NoVVA is going to be
actively campaigning for a
left-of-centre group then
those of us who consider
ourselves right-of-centre
may have a battle on our
hands. | think the voters of
North Vancouver Djistrict
are predominantly right-of-
centre.”

Ball predicted we may
well be on the threshold of
the end of independent
politics at a municipal level
in North Vancouver. He said
the same thing may be in
store at Richmond = and
Surrey.

Perhaps Socred backers
are organizing TAGG teams
there, too.

Meanwhile, the letter and
form sent to us by Douglas
V. Vincent (taxpayer) makes
it’ clear that in North
Vancouver at least, TAGG
has evolved far beyond the
stage of being an idea.

The form also
TAGG will be
candidates for the school
board, where NoVVA
currenly enjoys exclusive
control.

Both TAGG and NoVVA
are going to pains to appear

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moderate. What could sound
more innocuous than names
like North Vancouver
Voters’ Association, or
Taxpayers’ Association for
Good Government?

Or even the Concerned
Citizens’ Association?
Whatever happened to the
CCA anyway, after they got
wiped out by NoVVA in the
school board elections on
the issue of spending
restraints? We haven't heard
anything from them for ages.
Mrs. Arlene Bell, the CCA
member who took the school
board to court on the
community schools issue
doesn’t even want to discuss
it.

Hey, maybe the CCA all
jointed TAGG!

The philosophies jive
together - heavy on the issue
of spending, with lots of
mention of the word “tax-
payer.”

Douglas V. Vincent
(taxpayer) defends Lakes,
the most negative influence
on District council, as being
“all alone in his efforts to
keep our taxed dollars from
disappearing into the hungry
maw of the current school
board and council, never to
be seen again.” ™

The TAGG form he
encloses lists a five-point
TAGG Philosophy,
something like a  mini-
constitution. All very
general stuff about freedom
of worship and speech, etc.,

upholding the law and
having elected represen-
tatives make “intelligent

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Only hint of the politics
behind TAGG is in article
two of the philosophy.
Whereas Douglas V. Vin-
cent (taxpayer) takes ex-
ception to us having referred
to TAGG players as rabid
free-enterprizers, that
second paragraph is straight
from chapter one of the free
enterprize bible:

“All individuals have the
right to own _ private
property and enjoy the fruits
of their own labour.”

It seems extremely
doubtful that TAGG is any
more middle-of-the-road

_than NoVVA. The only

difference is that NoVVA
has officially declared it will
be running candidates and
given its stand on a list of
controversial local matters.

So why all the secrecy
from TAGG? Continued
vagueness can only serve to
create suspicion.

It is unlikely that such a
polarization in municipal
politics will accomplish
anything for the residents of
North Vancouver District,
whether it’s TAGG or

NoVVA who win the most
seats.

But let’s at least know who
we're being asked to support
and vote for and which flag
they're running under - as
well as just what those flags
stand for.

Nobody much likes the
prospect of being duped so
that a minority interest

group can gain a position of
power by being elected as
something it is not.

BALL... TAGGed to
run as redneck mayor?

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