PRESS RELEASE: RECALL RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN CONTINUES TO BUILD MOMENTUM ACROSS BC

Oct 25, 2010 Press Release

WEEK FOUR OF RECALL RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN CONTINUES TO BUILD MOMENTUM ACROSS BC

Comox Valley moves into  4^th place with 140 canvassers challenging top three Recall ridings

PORT COQUITLAM – After four weeks of competing to see which ridings will be amoung the first to conduct Recalls under the Fight HST banner another 266 people have volunteered bringing the total to 2,631 canvasser’s province wide.

Fight HST Lead Organizer, Chris Delaney, says the biggest gain was made in Don McRae’s Comox Valley riding, which shot up from 90 to 140 canvassers in one week putting them solidly in fourth place behind Oak Bay Gordon Head in first place with 189 canvassers, followed by Cariboo-Chilcotin in second place with 174 canvassers, and Kamloops North in third with 162 canvassers.

“Most of the ridings with big numbers saw an even larger jump this past week, probably due to voter anger over the Basi-Virk deal made by the government,” said Delaney. “That only fueled the anti-HST fire. People are furious with the government and there can be no question that is adding momentum to our Recall campaign.”

Delaney says Boundary-Similkameen with 139 volunteers and Saanich North with 132 are in a tight three way race for 4^th place with Comox Valley. He says Parksville-Qualicum and Maple Ridge Mission are in 5^th and 6^th place, with 132 and 106 volunteers respectively.

“It is very competitive right now in 8 of the 18 ridings. The other ten all have a solid base of canvassers that even now could launch successful Recalls with the right strategy. For example, Kelowna has a collective total of 135 canvassers signed up and there is talk of pooling their resources and targeting one candidate instead of three there,” said Delaney.

“With three weeks left to go it is anyone’s race to win – except the Liberals’ of course,” Delaney concluded.

Following are the results from Week Four of the HST Survivor Recall contest:

Constituency	MLA	Running Totals
Boundary Similkameen	John Slater	139
Cariboo Chilcotin	Donna Barnett	174
Comox Valley	Don McRae	140
Chilliwack	John Les	98
Kamloops North	Terry Lake	162
Kelowna Lake Country	Norm Letnick	48
Kelowna Mission	Steve Thompson	51
Kelowna Westside	Ben Stewart	36
Kootenay East	Bill Bennett	31
Maple Ridge – Mission	Marc Dalton	106
N. Vancouver-Seymour	Jane Thornthwaite	37
Oak Bay – Gordon Head	Ida Chong	189
Parksville Qualicum	Ron Cantelon	122
Penticton	Bill Barisoff	43
Quilchena	Colin Hansen	98
Saanich North & Islands	Murray Coell	132
Vernon Monashee	Eric Foster	51
West Vancouver STS	Joan McIntyre	68
Recall Ridings	Sub total	1725
All Other Ridings	Volunteers at Large	906
	RUNNING TOTALS (ALL)	2631

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PRESS RELEASE: RECALL RECRUITMENT RACE TURNS RED HOT

Oct 18, 2010 Press Release

FIGHT HST RECALL RECRUITMENT RACE TURNS RED HOT

Cariboo-Chilcotin moves into second place in “MLA Survivor Recall” contest with 158 canvassers

Port Coquitlam  – In only three weeks since Fight HST launched the “MLA Survivor Recall – Vote them off the Island” contest, the race to see which of the 18 ridings competing will go first has become red hot says Fight HST lead organizer, Chris Delaney.

Delaney says as of this week there are over 2,369 canvassers signed up across the province with the big surprise being MLA Donna Barnett’s Cariboo-Chilcotin riding which more than doubled its number of volunteers from 77 to 158. That places them 2^nd behind Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong with 178 canvassers and just ahead of 3^rd place Kamloops North MLA Terry Lake with 146 canvassers.

“When you consider the physical size of Cariboo-Chilcotin and the smaller population there, these numbers are absolutely stunning,” said Delaney. “The people there are very upset with their MLA and are determined to be amoung the first to launch a Recall under Fight HST.”

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