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FIGHTING’ PROMOTERS MAKE A SALES PITCH To BOUCHARD quotes of the week “We have a hell of a lot more fun at our caucus meetings you have at yours. I was going to say it just shows you it really doesn’t matter what the size of your caucus js, it’s what you do : 2. with it” . Progressive Democratic Alliance leader Gordon Wilson, comparing his caucus meetings .- "with wife Judi Tyabji with those of - the Liberal, NDP and B.C. Reform parties. (From a May 3 North '. Shore News story.) . co aag ; “This is an organtratifan that mailbox. duced won't be legal, and suggests _ facetiously that everyone who gets "’ caught speeding ‘should nominate “> me (he quoted me as spokeswoman — for ICBC, although he did not speak ‘to me). Just te set the record straight, if the registered’ owner of a vehicle photographed. speeding receives a violation ticket, but it was not he or she who was driving at the time, there will be a process to “nomi- nate” the actual driver. The driver mews View paint Liberal ND NOW a word from the Liberal has quite severely compromised . the infrastructure.” North Vancouver District 44 school trustee Bob Smith, on the district and its finances. (From an - April 28 North Shore News story.) ; O00. _ Fhey go up and down like a yo-yo, and I have lost all confi- dence in their accuracy.” _ North Vancouver District Coun. Ernie Crist, on the changing esti- © mates for the district's land bank as supplied by district staff members. (From an April 28 North Shore News story.) Conlin. draws 5s radar response . Dear Editor: -. a ../In-a recent-column by, Shaun: Conlin (“Confusing the photo radar. . trap”) he says the “norninating” pto- - cedure to shift penalties from owner ‘ to driver once photo’ radar is intro- must accept this nomination, and? there would be an official declars- tion by both parties. This concept has been assessed by lawyers “and the judiciary and will be perfectly legal., The registered owner is ultimate- ly responsible for his or her vehicle. If that vehicle was stolen and pho- tographed speeding, or if adjudica- tion determines that a legitimate reason existed for driving beyond” the speed “tolerance” set above the posted limit, there will be opportu- nity to explain that, and those own- : ers will not be charged. Leigh Carter Consultant Traffic Safety Initiatives McTavish. PEL ALA TNT ope RNTO AE 8 ek POET RIE ROME Sar TILE NE teAbN, AER IRE UA ATER To. All anti-Ni ONLY 23 days from a possi- ble Glen Clark dictatorship until 2001 — a prospect frightening the 65-70% of anti-NDP voters more than: - anything Mike Harcourt ever. threatened — it’s time to get down to cases. _ The first essential being to waste neither time nor effort taking candi- dates’ speeches, press releases and ; a promises too seriously. We know. perfectly well: | them bearing the slightest resemblance to reality, i over, are remote. | All that voters have to be serious ‘about i is whether they can more years of Mr. Clark. If the answer is “yes” or’ “maybe, ” read ho further. And yeu needn’t even waste time voting on May 28.°. If, on the other hand, the thought of entering the new millennium under Mr. Clark keeps you awake at nights, thea clearly 5 you. must ‘di something to stop the NDP from returning to power. *'. ae But vote for what? Liberal? Reform? PDA? Socred? Greens? You name it. The story of this election is of a two-thirds anti-NDP vote with’ its banner-carriers, however, so Splintered that none now appears t have ‘any realistic chance ‘of winning:an absolute majority of seats,” - Not that it’s entirely out of the question — as witness Ontario, ‘ where Mike Harris’ Tories, against all the odds, came from far. behind: to sweep the heavily favored Liberals clean off the board. ak As in Ontario, the key to the present election isthe “andécided” vote, shown in all recent polls to be running anywhere from 25% to 30% of the electorate. And few if any of those will vote NDP — a p y whose faithful make up their minds early, not at the last minute. ae Which still leaves many of the “undecided”. weak where the answer is not ail that complicated. : When you factor a 25% “undecided” vote into the lates poll which’ showed —. among “decided”. voters : * fortably in the lead, the:resuits work out as follows (w 30% “undecided” figure in brackets): NDP 29%: AKON Liberals'24 (22%), Reform 16% (15%), Others 6% (6%), U DECIDED 25% : GO%y ,™ You don’t have to be an Einstein to figure vut that if. Liberals. a) 1 « Reform won two-thirds of the “undecided™ vote, either one.c : emerge: ahead of the NDP. Combined, they could swamp the ocial ts /with only one-half of the “undecided” vote, -: So the answer for the confused anti-NDP voter is § imply. to be sure “to turn out and cast his ballot — whether for Liberals o7’R Reform, PDA Socred.or ‘whatever. The numbers virtually. guarantee that:a full’ And eventually, of céarse, the majority ‘opposition p: wil forced te ge? around to forming a coalition government-in iting, that ousts the socialists for good. : For Messrs. Campbell and Weisgerher, | too proud to merg advance, it will finally come down to that— or joint ‘poli cal sui de HELP local charities, stock up with all your favorite: bedd and potted flowers at West Van Kiwanis Giant Plant’ Saie, a.m. t0 8 p.m., May.7-11 behind the Ice Rink at:22nd and Gordon...; - And many happy returns of. i Tuesday, May 7, to N: ‘Vatu 1 binikday boy Kio Howard. - oo] WRIGHT OR WRONG: Even a hippo" s mother thinks her kid i is beautiful. pat cee emer iin arent tne gam tt net Pae to mean S et mbm A Sh secrete msn eaimnmatntnmereriremate thet ernest ant et eat interpretations members could not find a replacement for Ae “Ht is the position of the Executive of the British Columbia Liberal Party that those who are mem- bers of 2 Constituency Executive can not be either candidates or campaign man- agers for a candidate.” A fairly straight-forward statement. In politics, it’s a mod! of clarity. Except, perhaps, to the. B.C. Liberal Party, the North Vancouver-Lonsdale Liberal Riding Association and its new : candidate Katherine Whittred. Whittred’s campaign manager is none * other than riding association secretary “and executive committee member Brad Esfandiar Pournadeali lost to Whittred by three votes in the ridimg’s April 21 nomination meeting. He picked up on Whittred’s infraction and used it as part of his case to ask for Whittred’s removal and his iastatement as candidate. But in. an unbelievable move, an appeals com- mittee of provincial Liberals rejected the appeal, It seems a liberal interpretation of written Liberal policy is allowed within the party and local riding association. In a statement before the appeals com- mittee, riding association president John Whyte further stretched the riding associ- ation’s credibility by saying committee McTavish. Mf they couldi’t, find a replacement for secretary McTavish, they should, have. . ‘demanded a replacement for. campaign manager McTavish. But they didn’t. Instead, in clear violation of Liberal poli- ° cy, Brad MeTavish’s name appears ona number of Whittred’s campaign adver- tisements. -_ Whittred, a former riding association president, boasts that her Liberal party: roots go back 25 years. - - hoe The whole nomination episode reeks of, the much-despised political tradition of: ooking after friends and insiders.