Dear Editor:
This letter is directed at provincial Conservative Party leader John Cummins. We believe you’re amazing or just plain stupid.
After your recent decision to remove Mischa Popoff from your party, you do NOT have a candidate for the Boundary – Similkameen Electoral District to represent the Conservatives in this election.
You must know that this riding has been conservative in the past, yet you seem to have deliberately given all those votes to the Liberals or NDP.
The question now is, who do we want as our MLA? We have five choices:
1. A “puppet” from the Liberal Party who has to follow their rules to the “T”.
2. Another “puppet” from the NDP, who have their own rules that have to be closely followed.
3. The Green Party, who would not know what rules to follow.
4. We have two independent candidates. One who doesn’t want to be elected, and is just wasting everyone’s time and their vote.
5. Then there’s Popoff, who would have gladly represented us as a Conservative candidate and would have stood up for the peoples’ rights, but paid the price by being ousted from the Conservative Party. Popoff has a mind of his own and is prepared to stand by what is best for the voters.
We are tired of having an MLA that is only there to support the ruling party with his/her vote, and not caring or giving consideration about the voters and their families.
We are tired of having candidates who are just interested in the almighty dollar and govern to be re-elected rather than to be re-elected for a second term having governed properly for the people of B.C.
On May 14 let us vote for an “independent” person who will represent us, the people of this riding, and not be a “puppet” of any other party.
In this election, the way it is going, Popoff could possibly end up with the balance of power.
Ray Vandenberg and Jean Clarke
Osoyoos, B.C.
