Ah, Alex. Norma Blissett hasn’t been elected a councillor yet
as your Nov. 10 letter alleges, but I’m sure she would make a fine councillor
and thanks for doing your best to promote her. As for me, a self-proclaimed
independent running for re-election, I’ve never belonged to a political party
which is why I call myself an “independent.” Mind you, I’ve volunteered for
political parties, the last one being the Reform Party that gave birth to the
federal conservatives, about as far from “tax and spend” as you can get. As for
the slate bogeyman, the closest thing I’ve seen to a municipal slate in
Cranbrook was the last election when four former Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce
presidents ran and lost. This year, the chamber wisely decided to live up to its
non-partisan mandate and declined to get directly involved in the election. I
commend them for that which is more than I can say Alex for your attempts to
sling mud in the current campaign.
Ciao . . .
Councillor Gerry Warner
Further:
Further:
Time to set the record straight on an underhanded attempt to
smear four of the candidates running for Mayor and Council. Speaking only for
myself, I was not interviewed by anyone from CUPE during this campaign nor have
I knowingly spoke to any CUPE member though I certainly wouldn’t hesitate to do
so the same as I’d speak to any Cranbrook citizen. I did fill out a CUPE
questionnaire that I received in the mail and my good wife Sandra dropped it off
at the CUPE office. That’s the total extent of my CUPE involvement and I
certainly don’t apologize for it as I filled out a questionnaire from the
Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce too. That’s what candidates do in elections. So
what’s going on here? Alex Jensen, who made the original slate allegation in the
Cranbrook Townsman, ran in the 2002 civic election as an unabashed member of a
slate along with lawyers Ron Miles and John Zimmer and local businessman Percy
Davis. Except they weren’t honest enough to call it a slate. They called it a
“team” and at an all candidates meeting Nov. 14, 2002 Miles defended the team
approach saying the team was just a group of friends and “friendship helps the
decision-making process.”
No kidding! And how did the team fare in the 2002 election?
Miles came in third out of three in the mayoralty contest and Jensen finished
10th out of 13 running for Council.
The people of Cranbrook saw very clearly through that “team”
and I believe they will see just as clear-eyed through Jensen’s baseless
allegation in the current campaign.
Sincerely,
Councillor Gerry Warner
Nov. 13, 2014
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