PRESS RELEASE: Petition reaches 10% in all 85 ridings 600,000 signatures province-wide, 71 ridings pass 15%
May 31, 2010 Press Release
Fight HST petition reaches 10% requirement in all 85 ridings
600,000 signatures province-wide, 71 ridings pass 15% or greater threshold, including Vancouver Quilchena.
Vander Zalm calls on Premier Campbell to conduct a “free vote” to repeal HST
Port Coquitlam – Fight HST lead organizer, Chris Delaney, says the petition to repeal the HST broke 600,000 signatures province wide this past weekend, and crossed the 10% minimum signature threshold in all 85 electoral districts. He says 71 ridings have hit 15% or better, including Finance Minister Hansen’s own riding of Vancouver Quilchena.
Delaney says organizers are on track to achieve 15% or more signatures in the remaining 14 ridings by the end of next week. “This report represents only 70 of 85 ridings, with a number of ridings not reporting this week, and others still tabulating results from the weekend. We should make our internal 15% target in all ridings by the first or second week of June.”
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PRESS RELEASE: Fight HST petition meets 10% threshold in 83 of 85 Ridings
May 25, 2010 Press Release
Point Grey and Quilchena hit 10% with 6 weeks still to go.
Port Coquitlam – Fight HST Lead Organizer, Chris Delaney, says the petition to repeal the HST has crossed the Elections BC 10% threshold in 83 of 85 ridings with over 6 weeks still to go in the campaign.
Delaney says the Fight HST internal threshold of 15% or more has been reached in 57 of 85 ridings.
“These numbers are particularly exciting, since they represent only 64 of 85 ridings reporting. Many areas of the province that had reached their targets took a break for the long weekend. We’ll finish up the remaining two ridings next weekend, and will meet both the Elections BC requirement of 10% as well as our own internal threshold of 15% in all ridings by the first or second week of June,” said Delaney.
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Fight HST organizers hold day-long petition signature drive at Vancouver Art Gallery
Apr 28, 2010 Press Release
Fight HST organizers hold day-long petition signature drive for all Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver ridings at Vancouver Art Gallery Saturday May 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
VANCOUVER – Fight HST organizers will hold a day-long signature drive on Saturday May 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Vancouver Art Gallery for registered voters in all Vancouver, West Vancouver and North Vancouver ridings to sign citizens Initiative petition to stop the HST.
The petition signature drive will take place on the West Georgia Street side of the Gallery, located at 750 Hornby Street in downtown Vancouver, rain or shine.
The petition drive follows Fight HST reporting that 145,549 signatures had been received province-wide by last Sunday April 25.
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