PATRONAGE Lawyers cash in on Liberal win By JEFF NAGEL THE SPOILS of victory are final- ly being handed out to loyal Lib- eral lawyers who worked for the party in the 1993 election. Terrace lawyer and prominent northwest Liberal campaigner Jack Talstra is now back in the lucrative federal. legal «contract business, courlesy of Jean Chretien’s Liberal government. This month Talstra takes over the federal Crown counsel work — and responsibility for federal drug prosecutions in Terrace — from local Tory lawyer Jeffrey Amdt, Those contracts are awarded by the federal government and are commonly used to reward law- yers for political activity on be- half of the party in power. Talstra had the federal contracts under Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal governments. But that ended in 1984 when Brian Mulreney’s Conservatives came to power and Amdt was in- stalled as the federal Crown counsel for the region, Amdt’s federal billings ranged from a high of $338,000 in 1988 to a low of $118,000 in 1992. Keeping that work, however, became doubtful when Liberals won 4 large majority in the 1993 federal election. Both lawyers were active dur- ing the local campaign. Talstra donated $1,150 to Lib- eral candidale Rhoda Witherly’s campaign in Skeena — _ the largest single individual donation — and he was her official agent for the election. Amdt was on the Conservative Parly’s nominating committee in Skeena in the 1993 election, and his partner Don Brown was legal counsel to Conservative candi- date Danny Sheridan. The firm Crampton, Brown and Arndt were regular contributors to Tory coffers during «the -.Mulroncy “YOUR COLLEGEIN YOUR COMM Jack Talstra years, But this time, Talstra won’t get the federal contracts for the entire northwest. He7ll just do the Ter- race, Nass, and Stewart area. Kitimat mayor Rick Wozney — another lawyer with strong Liber- al connections — gets the Kitimat contracts, Prince Rupert iawyer Don Sil- versides — who wes Witherly’s campaign manager in '93 and has also contributed regularly to the Liberals — said the work was of- fered to his firm, but he turned it down. ‘"We were not interested,”’ he explained, Arndt will remain as the federal prosecutor in Prince Rupert. “I guess there’s no Liberal law- yers who wanted ta do it in Rupert,’’ Arndt said. — Taistra said last week he isn’t sure if he bas time for the job or whether he'll keep it “The pay is kinda lousy,” he explained. ‘Not everybody wants it”? . The tariff is $82 per hour, he said, significantly lower than the private fees most lawyers charge. 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