AB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 5, 2000

Talstra outspends rivals

to win may

JACK TALSTRA outspent
his challengers by a huge
margin in last November’s
municipal election.

His campaign spent
$15,625 to keep Talstra in
the mayor’s chair, and
there. were no big corpor-
ale backers picking up the
tab.

The vast majority of it ~
$11,952.12.- came out of
Talsira’s own pocket,

Another nearly $600
came from his property de-
velopment company, Five
Star Properties.

Remaining contribu-
tions consisted of $500
from local orthodontist Dr.
Vic Lepp, $100 from. for-
mer Terrace mayor Dave
Maroney and $75 from A.
Marg. McKeown,

Signs, brochures and
delivery. costs ate up al-
most $6,000. of the ex-
pense budget.

Close to $5,000 more
was spent on newspaper
and broadcast advertising.

And the Talstra cam-
paign .also spent $538.82
on buttons and photo-
graphs.

They also declared
$1,271 spent on a paid
campaign worker, $1,000
on rent and utilities for a
campaign office in Tal-
stra’s Jaw office building,
and $100 for the rental of
furniture: and equipment
and close to $100 on other
office expenses.

Also declared was a
$357.75 expense for the
use of the Skeena Valley
Golf and Country Club for
a meeting room.

‘Under the category of
research and polling the
Talstra campaign declared
$945.07. for “telephones
and voter's lists.” Another
$250 was spent on trans-
portation.

Crowns

at work

B.C’s CROWN prosecutors
didn’t get a raise and a new
contract when they called
off last week’s four-day
walkout, but at least they’re
talking about it.

For the first time Crown
lawyers have an association,
‘recognized through changes
to the Crown Counsel Act,
that can bargain with the
government.

“This is all that we are
asking for, we can not be
unhappy with this,” said
Mitch Houg, a northern
crown counsel last week.

The talks ended at 6:30
p.m. Sunday, March 26, the
evening before almost 400
prosecutors were to have
started a four-day province-
wide walk out.

About 94 per cent of the
lawyers and 27 of 28 north-
em prosecutors available,
voted in favour of the new
agreement.

Terms of the settlement
included the appointment of
a lawyer and labour rela-
lions specialist to mediate
concerns within the next 60
days...

Donald Monroe worked
as a mediator during the ne-
gotiations leading up to the
agreement.

If the government ac-
cepts Munroe's recommen-

Jack Talstra

By comparison, conten-
der Linda Hawes spent just
$5,633.

Signs and brochures
made up nearly $3,000 of
that, with newspaper and
broadcast advertising fol-
lowing at about $2,200.
Postage for brochures was
another $385.

Hawes paid most of the
expenses herself, with
$797.83 in declared contri-
butions, of which the lar-
gest was $300 from Houl-
den Logging.

The third mayoral can-
didate Garry Pryce paid for
almost all of his $1,700
campaign, the bulk of

or’s seat

Linda Hawes

which went to signs and
brochures.

The top spender among
city councillors was Rich
McDaniel, at $1,478, and
Val George was a close
second at $1,437.65, Those
two finished third and sec-
ond respectively.

Frank Hamilton spent
$947.34 but finished out of
the running in 9th spot.
Ron Vanderlee spent
$724.50 and squeezed into
the last council seat.

Other candidates proved
you could still win a coun-
cil seat with a low budget
campaign. Olga Power

topped the polls on a $515

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Christiansen and David
Hull both turned in re-
spectable finishes spend-
ing $400 and $467 respect-
ively,

George Vogel spent just
$50 on his campaign,
while other council also-
rans Darrell Norton, James
Fraser and Joely Viveiros
spent between $450 and
$700,

Most council candi-
dates spent the bulk of
their money on signs and
brochures, with advertising
the next biggest expense.

As with the mayoral
candidates, most council
contenders paid almost all
expenses out of their own
pocket,

David Hull got the big-
gest corporate contribution
— $300 from local develo-
per Progressive Ventures.

Lynne Christiansen got
$200 from the Farmer's
Market.

Labour wasn't a big
factor, but Ron Vanderlee
got $250 from the Cana-
dian Union of Public Em-
ployees and Fraser got
$100 from the United Food
and Commercial Workers.

A few other individuals
donated amounts of $100
or Jess ta some council
candidates’ campaigns.

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