AB - The Terrace Standard, | Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Mostelectionmoney | | _ makes for most votes os ~— NATHAN. CULLEN not _Only handily » defeated his “competition |” “winning | the® ‘Skeena-Bulkley ‘Valley - : iding in the January 2006. federal election, but he spent 7 “the most in doing SO. . Information. ‘filed ' with Elections Canada indicates Cullen spent $90,144, just ‘shy, of the $91,309 limit set - for the riding. - That was substantially - more than the $71,817 spent — by Conservative. challenger . Chevron Bigger. Faster. Better. ‘Chevron: Commerical Cardlock a - We are pleased to announce the completion of the upgrade to our Smithers, BC Cardiock | rer | located at 3100 Tatlow Road. | a - Mike Scott. el ; : ' ; ; : “ “Liberal Gordon Stamp- = : —- ra ge a 4 Vincent spent $19,599.28; . NathanCullen — | Mike Scott CO Bigger cardlock with satellite. pumps, _ a Q ” Rod. Taylor ‘of. the’ Chris- - , a a ys . sy mo - “tian Heritage Party spent - In terms of spending, June 2004 federal election. ° Ce Faster authorization time, ° toe $23,834.62. and Phil Bri- Scott bought more advertis- Andy Burton, who was _ oe oe a / em, ie ©, enesse'spent just $752.93... ing at. $43,214 than did Cul- the Conservative’ MP until. ~ re - Better-high speed pumps! oS “1. Cullen. received’ 18,496 len who spent $33,036.21. «defeated by Cullen in that = © ae oe oo, oe gs “votes, ‘substantially’ “more Stamp-Vincent.' . spent. balloting, spent $53,675. , ne a ee than. the 12,630 votes re- $11,687.34, Taylor spent. Cullen spent $48,135.86 ceived :by Scott who had $14,942.02. and “Brienesse and Rod Taylor of the Chris- been expected to’ give the spent $717.93. tian Heritage. Party spent . 7 _7: “NDPMP arun for his mon- Cullen spent $21,263.23 $15,037.55. : Call us at 1-800-331-7353 ey.. _ on salaries and wages:‘while . Liberal Miles Richard- or visit our website at ” When it ‘came to indi- ‘Scott is listed at zero spend- ‘son, one of a group of ‘star : F . vidual ‘contributions, Cullen ing in this category. -“- candidates” - promoted | by, ; www.chevron.ca for more information received 424 amounting to But .. Scott did~ spend * ‘the party,’ topped the list at ~ "$52,209.74, easily outdis- . $15,000. for ‘surveys, the., 3B 964. 30. oe oo ~ tancing anybody: else i in n this only candidate to do so. : Pee ye _ Category. B When: “it.” comes ‘down a : ‘Scott had: 64 individual ~ to what it cost to win each: -- contributions amounting ;. vote, Green Brienesse was . : aN a EARN DOUBLE to $17,025,: ‘Stamp-Vincent ~ the most efficient. With ex- “19 individual contributions ‘penditures: of $752, he ré-. . to , TD POINTS worth $8,143.97 and Tay-. ceived just over 1,000.votes. _ rn: ai ; ten lor 64 contributions worth '. That means each. vote cost | 7 Ce Later Ue) Sele Travel’ Visa’ Card $17, 569.78. 9; . ‘75 cents each. Be * Scott : topped the corpo-.- Taylor spent the most ‘to. Hoe pate contribution list with 40 . attract voters at $19.80 for: ‘totalling $21, ,287.70 while “each ballot.’ Stamp- -Vincent . Cullen took ‘in. $4,711.56 spent $4.08, Scott spent © from nine corporate con- $5:69 and Cullen, spent’” tributors, Stamp-Vincent $4.87. collected $5,280. from .11 “Sil PT oo ; : "corporations and Rod Taylor ~ Candidates. in- the 2006 ee “had $3,350 come in from six _ vote outdid themselves when e - corporate contributors. a » compared to spending i in the, ~ Cullen. pays own way to victory . NATHAN CULLEN has paign while his wife, Elaine, turned out to be the single donated $400. largest. contributor to his’ Green. party, candidate _ ownsuccessful January 2006 . Phil.. Brienesse ° contribut- . Fone -. “federal-election campaign. ed $520 to himself which i . The NDP MP for Skeena made up the majority of his — % - Bulkley Valley contributed $752.93 campaign spending © * $2,000 to himself, indicates total. information filed with Elec- Cullen was aided by a tions Canada, the indepen- familiar name in northwest dent body which manages politics — former Skeena . r Coe, how votes are conducted. NDP MP Jim Fulton con- : — a tg a ee ee eee It. helped Cullen amass a__ tributed $1,000. _ so - war chest resulting in a total Fulton, who won _ four ‘expenditure of $90,144.41 — elections for the NDP begin-_ for. -his second campaign ning in 1979 before retiring victory. . . - .in 1993, has been labelled as. “But other candidates also . a‘mentor to Cullen. » Made contributions to their Other regional NDP no- © own causes. ~ tables.to make contributions _ | Conservative Mike Scott “to Cullen, include " North received $1,000 from Mag- Coast provincial MLA Gary ‘num Road Builders and the - Coons at-$500 and former same amount from Spring Bukley Valley-Stikine NDP Créek Aggregates, twocom-' MLA Bill Goodacre who. ‘panies in which he has an contributed $400. a ~ Gwnership position, Scott ‘also. received Scott also received a $1,500 from Frontier Chrys- ' $1,000 contribution from his © ler of Smithers, $1,000 from father, Lloyd Scott. _ Lakes District Management Christian ‘Heritage Party. of Burns Lake, $1,000 from candidate Rod Taylor con- _ “tributed $725 to his cam-- | Cont’d Page AQ Come check out our new selection of... 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