Tag Archives: 2011

Two More & A New Poll!

I can’t say I am completely surprised at the results of the Campaign Sign poll. What did catch me off guard was the numbers. I know people didn’t find much use for them, but 90% of the 69 votes said no to Campaign Sign helping in their decision-making. All the money and time that candidates waste in putting up signs and it all maybe for nothing. I’m sure it’s not a complete loss as just the sight of them on a regular basis may help your brain recall their name when at the voting booth when you’re not sure who the last few votes should go to.

With the Campaign Sign poll over a week old I have decided to started a new poll. I had a request that I put up a poll to see who the site visitors are going to vote for in the mayoral race. I have left the Campaign Sign poll open if you’d still like to vote on that one as well, so let your voice be heard!

I have also received two responses from council candidates in the past few days. Thanks you to Murry Krause and  Dave Wilbur for participating in this blog. That just leaves council candidates Brian Skakun, Lyn Hall, Brad Gagnon, John Beebe, Scot Affleck and Mayoral Candidates Eugene Fetterly, and Alex Huber left to respond. I hope they respond soon as the election is only 8 days away and people need to have their information to make informed decisions.

I would also like to thank council candidate Garth Frizzell for inviting me to the town hall meeting on his election website www.garthworks.ca. I will be one of a few asking him question during this time and you the public will be able to listen to his responses. The town Hall meeting is going to Thursday Nov 18th at 07:00pm, so go by his site and check it out. If you have any questions you think I should ask leave your question in the comment section.

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Integrity Stations

Do you feel ready for the upcoming election? In blogging about the election over the past month I feel ready one day and then a candidate will say something that will make me change my mind. Making a decision can be tough sometimes. The only thing we can do as citizens is arm our self’s with information about each candidate and hope that they have some integrity and do what they say they were going to do.

We are only 10 days away from election day. The last public forum was last night at the College of New Caledonia hosted by the Prince George Chamber of Commerce & the Prince George Library. I had been to every forum until last night. I decided to try using another medium that was offered at this forum instead of being there in person. That medium was a live stream of the forum via the Prince George Public Library website. I hope this medium continues to be offered more often in the future as nothing beats sitting in the comfort of my couch with a bowl of popcorn. There were some technical difficulties at time during the stream, but nothing that could not be fixed for the next time. Funny thing is with the use of Twitter I was able to communicate with people at the forum. There were some great responses by a few of the candidates, but for the most part the same things were getting recycled over and over again. Some great questions got asked and the format was good as every candidate had different questions. Nothing makes a forum more boring than listening to 25 candidates answer the same question for an hour and all saying the same thing.  The last two forums are private forums. Wednesday Nov 9th up at UNBC for a political science class (Mayoral Candidates only) and one on November 14th at the Ramada for the Prince George Construction Association. So if you did not make it out to any of the other forums then this is your only resource left to form your list.

In other thoughts; have you been wondering where you can go to vote for this upcoming civic election. Well fret no more as I have dug up the information for you from the city of Prince George website. A good chap here in town as even gone a step further and mapped it out for you on his website sparkgeo.com.

Qualified electors can vote from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm at any of the following voting places:

Advance Voting Opportunities

November 9 and November 15, 2011 at City Hall

November 16 at UNBC

General Voting Day (November 19, 2011)

  • Kelly Road Secondary School 4540 Handlen Road
  • Vanway Elementary School 9777 Western Road
  • John McInnis Centre 3400 Westwood Drive
  • DP Todd Secondary School 4444 Hill Avenue
  • Malaspina Elementary School 7900 Malaspina Avenue
  • Ron Brent Elementary School 1401 17th Avenue
  • Edgewood Elementary School 4440 Craig Street
  • Blackburn Community Centre 2452 South Blackburn Road
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Almost There

Well we are almost there in more ways than one. The first is November 19th is only 13 days away, so crunch time for the candidates is upon them. The second is I have 5 more response from Candidates. Thank You to Dan Rogers, Shari Green, Bruce Fader, Harry Ulch, and Cameron Stolz for participating in this blog for the citizens of Prince George. Check out the Mayoral and Council Candidates pages for their submissions.

The last of the public Forums is tomorrow night at the College Of New Caledonia at 6 pm. This one is being hosted by the Prince George Chamber of Commerce and the Prince George Library. Get there early if you was a seat as I’m sure it will fill fast and you’ll get left standing.

I put up a poll on the blog over the weekend about Campaign Signs. I’m hoping you’ll still answer the question. The response so far has been good and surprising, so keep checking back to find out the results and the comments.

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Radio Interview

Word is starting to get out about the blog and I am grateful that this resource is appreciated. To making things easy to remember I have add a second domain name to the site. You can now access the site by just typing in www.pgelxn.com

I did a phone interview with Marissa Harvey over at the Vista Broadcast Group here in Prince George. It was my first radio interview and from the people who heard it I sounded good. 94X FM and 97 FM The Wolf played the clip on the noon news. I am thankful for Marissa Harvey giving me the opportunity to share this blog on the radio. The interview is also on their website at HQ Prince George so go and check it out. I’m not sure if they will air the clip again on the radio, but I hope so as the residents of Prince George need to know this resource is here. My hope is to get everyone out to vote on November 19th and have their voice heard. This is our city and the decisions city council makes will affect all of our lives. Make sure it affects you in a positive way and that can only happen if we all vote!

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Prince George Citizen Fourm

Well tonight was the Prince George Citizen forum at the Ramada Hotel and it was very well attended. every seat in the house was full and the sides as well as the atrium outside of the conference room was pack with standing citizens. It was great to see this type of response from the city seeing as the first three forums had very poor turn out. Only three candidates did not make this forum and those were Brandon Lewis, Bruce Fader, and Travis Smith. There was a lot of great questions and the council candidates only have 30 seconds to answer them. Mayoral candidates had a minute to answer the questions, but this was in part due to only four candidates showing up. I hope that this is a sign of things to come, and I believe it is, as we get closer to the November 19th election.

I have added another submission to the council page. This submission is from Myrt Turner. With this submission i now have only 9 more council candidates to get submissions from and 5 more mayoral candidates. I have gotten e-mails from a few saying they are sending in something and I have chat with a few at the forums that have said the same thing. So we should have full participation.

I have received an e-mail from a school trustee that is hoping I can add a page on here for them. I will be adding that page in the next day or two as I am hearing a demand for citizens for this as well. I have not been overly interested in the School district trustee race, but seeing as I have two daughters that attend school in Prince George I should probably take a much bigger interest in how running and what for.

Here are a few of the tweets that came up on twitter from the Prince George Citizen forum….

anitapamaral Nov 03, 6:01pm
Standing room only left. Should be a good forum tonight. Come on down for a 6pm start. pgelxn.wordpress.com #PGelxn #iheartPG 
 
anitapamaral Nov 03, 6:49pm
Gotta say @ShariGreen4Mayr has really seemed to kick this election up a notch. Some refreshing comments and very well spoken tonight #PGelxn
 
KCreamore Nov 03, 6:51pm
And Fetterly has arrived and only an hour late. Kind of weird to see him in a suit & tie. #PGelxn pgelxn.wordpress.com
 
anitapamaral Nov 03, 7:00pm
#PGelxn on selling PG: @garthfrizzell “we have to stop being the best well-kept secret” #IheartPG
 
anitapamaral Nov 03, 7:27pm
Agreed! Let’s vote on Nov19 to shake it up a bit! RT @BillBS @anitapamaral yeah that’s not right that’s why we need new blood #PGelxn
 
JenniferBrandle Nov 03, 7:29pm
@anitapamaral With #princegeorge Chamber/Public Library Forum this Tues, I’m interested in how the format works tonight, do tell. #PGelxn
 
ron_gallo Nov 03, 7:42pm
Eugene Fetterley “long live Brian Skakun” at #princegeorgeall-candidates forum #PGelxn
 
BillBS Nov 03, 7:49pm
Garth you’re right on – one of our best.
 
ron_gallo Nov 03, 7:52pm
Loud and sustained applause for Brian Skakun in reference to his stand on transparency. #PGelxn
 
BillBS Nov 03, 8:02pm
One of the Mayoralty candidates is an embarrassment yet he gets applause.
 
anitapamaral Nov 03, 8:11pm
“we need to flatten city hall…. I mean we have to flatten the decision-making in city hall” @stolzpg #freudianslip#PGelxn
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Local Media: Council Candidates

So in an attempt to clean up the blog feed I have compacted the past Local Media post into a couple of posts. The first one was a post for Mayoral candidates and links to past articles about the candidates running for mayor. The second post, this post, is links to past articles about council candidates. So here are links to past articles about council candidates

Scot Affleck

Prince George Free Press – Affleck focuses on municipal spending

John Beebe

Prince George Citizen – Candidate frustrated by council procedure changes

Prince George Citizen – Running for councillor: John Beebe

Joanne Dickenson

Prince George Citizen – Houston councillor added to PG ballot

Frank Everitt

Prince George Free Press – Labour boss shoots for seat on council

Prince George Free Press – Dickenson runs for city council

Dorothy Friesen

Garth Frizzell

Prince George Citizen – Frizzell to seek reelection

Jordan Gadsby

Prince George Free Press – Gadsby would bring different perspective to council table

Brad Gagnon

Prince George Free Press – Brad Gagnon runs for city council

Lyn Hall

Prince George Free Press – Hall sets sights on city council seat

Albert Koehler

Prince George Free Press – Koehler seeks seat on city council

Murry Krause

Prince George Citizen – Rogers, Skakun, Krause seeking re-election

Prince George Free Press – Krause looking for fifth term on council

Debora Munoz

Prince George Citizen – Munoz seeking re-election

Prince George Citizen – Incumbent, running for councillor: Debora Munoz

Prince George Free Press – Munoz seeks re-election to city council

Travis Shaw

Prince George Citizen – Running for councillor: Travis Shaw

Prince George Citizen – Shaw unveils campaign platform

Prince George Free Press – Travis Shaw seeks spot on city council

Brian Skakun

Prince George Citizen – Rogers, Skakun, Krause seeking re-election

Cameron Stolz

Prince George Free Press – Stolz seeks second term on council

Myrt Turner

Prince George Free Press – Myrt Turner runs for council

Harry Ulch

Prince George Free Press – Ulch seeking seat on city council

Dave Wilbur

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Local Media: Mayoral Candidates

So in an attempt to clean up the blog feed I have compacted the past Local Media post into a couple of posts. The first is a Mayoral post of links to past articles about the candidates for mayor. The second post is links to past articles about council candidates.  From now on I will blog post of media stuff for the day instead of separately. This will make things nicer looking and easier for you the reader to keep tack of. I will try to include as many article links as possible, but if I miss any please leave a comment in the comments section below so that other users of the site can go to them. First off is links to past articles for Mayoral Candidates

Eugene Fetterly

Free Press – Fetterly runs for mayor

Bruce Fader

Prince George Free Press – Bruce Fader runs for mayor

Brandon Lewis

Prince George Free Press – Brandon Lewis runs for mayor

Prince George Citizen – Running for mayor

Alex Huber

Prince George Free Press – Alex Huber runs for mayor

Shari Green

Prince George Citizen – Councillor announces bid for mayor’s chair

Prince George Citizen – Incumbent, mayoral candidate

Prince George Free Press – Mayoral candidate unveils platform

Dan Rogers

Prince George Free Press – Rogers seeking re-election

Prince George Citizen – Mayor kicks off reelection bid

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Three more!

Hello all back here with another update from three Candidates. Thank you to Dorothy Friesen, Garth Frizzell, and Debora Munoz for being apart of this initiative. I hope to meet up with the candidates that have not responded  tonight at the forum that is being held at Cafe Voltaire which is in Books & Company on 2nd Ave. I hope to see lot of people there tonight and bring your questions. There is another Forum tomorrow night at the Ramada Inn starting at 6:00pm. This forum is being held by local newspaper The Prince George Citizen and will be a good one to attend. So if you can`t make it out tonight then try to attend the one tomorrow.

There has been a recent update to the forum page and a new forum has now been added. The new one is being held by the Prince George Chamber of Commerce and is on Nov 8th at 6:00pm at the College of New Caledonia. Thank you to Garth Frizzell for the comment on the forum page about the new forum. I’ve heard whispers that the Prince George Native Friendship Centre is looking at doing a forum, but it is just whispers and time is running out so I would not count on much happening there. Check out the forum page for other details and other forums that will be going on around the Prince George area.

Spread the words to your friends and family about this resource. The more people who visit the site the word will get out and people will have a place to read and make informed decisions. The vote is your to us, we just have to get out and use it. #iheartPG

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