While incumbents may be away in attendance at UBCM this week, some of those new challengers looking to claim their own seat on City Council following the October 15th election have started to move their campaigns forward.
Some recent social media messaging from those candidates with an online presence has highlighted their recent door knocking and campaign events as they get out into the community to meet with residents and hear of their concerns about civic issues.
As we noted yesterday, Mayoralty candidate Herb Pond has been among the most active, hosting a campaign launch last week and using his social media page as a forum for some conversation.
Among those using their online presence to introduce themselves to the voters include Council candidates Andy Chugh and Teri Forster, as well as Mayoralty candidate Chrystopher Thompson.
An exploration of the online contributions to date from both incumbents and challengers show strong support of the current Council's Vision plans of the last eight years, along with some fealty for a few candidates to the Mayor's call for support for the current #ScraptheTax petition.
Jason Hoang who is also running for Mayor launched an online portal at the start of his campaign, but there have been few campaign themes delivered to it since that point.
The other candidate for Mayor Steve Fitzpatrick has yet to develop much of an online campaign presence; that is the same scenario at the moment for City Council candidate Sheila Gordon-Payne.
All of the incumbents have a social media presence, with most having at least introduced their campaigns over the last week or so.
Links to those who have social media message making underway, as well as all the latest on campaign notes from the 2022 Municipal campaign can be found from our archive page.
Hopefully the candidates will come up with some ideas that are more imaginative than paying fealty to the ScraptheTax petition stating a "demand" to the legislature that will be presented without debate, received, filed, and soon forgotten.
ReplyDeleteThe new council might consider, for instance, reaching out to, among others, the BC Marine Terminal Operators Association and its members, rather than dismissing the operators as "wealthy multinational corporations" who are being 'subsidized' and not paying their 'fair share', when in fact they are faithfully paying their taxes as invoiced.
The council also might consider taking some advice from local First Nations who over the years have developed mutually respectful and beneficial relationships with the Port and the operators.
The new mayor and council, whoever that is, really need to set higher standards and leave the protest camp manner of communications behind. As someone commented earlier today on Monday's article on the Port's response to the petition, the city council's manner of representation is disappointing embarrassing.