yi “DO YOU want to be in the loop — or out of it? To . Progressive Conservative campalgn worker Frank Donahue, that’s the number one question this election. _-“"You had 14 yeam of Jim Fulton You had 17 years or thereabouts of Frank Howard. Show me: one job. Compare that - with what:.was accomplished in - the four years (Liberal) Jona Campagnolo represented this : fidingin government”? --Ferry. expansions and port ex- pansions' “were. among the “numerous. jobs created here, - Donahue says. “Tf you don’t have a voice in government, you have ne voice in _ What's going on.’ And B.C. can't . * pass-up the chance of having a westem Prime Minister, he adds. “T think ‘what these people. in Reform are trying to do is ad- mirable. But E think Kim is the woman to do it,”” A’. veteran PC — supporter, Donahue. sat out the last federal _ election because he couldn't - stomach Brian Mulroney. - “This election, he says, there is More interest in the Conservative _. Party and the election in general ~~” than he has ever seen. “Ts also the best prepared Con- servative party he’s seen in - Skeena since 1974, when Tories TERRACE — Candidates in Skeena will be allowed to spend up to $63,814.01 on the campaign. And the defending New Demo- crats will spend every penny of that...if they raise enough money. _ TERRACE STANDARD - Tne Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 29, 1993 - Page AS ‘ONCE A strong critic of Brian Mulroney, tive party when Kim Campbell became | poor Frank Donahue came back to the Progressive Conserva- ts feader. He's now the official agent to Tory candidate Danny Sheridan and that means more than his fair share of desk work. were confident they would take the riding from Howard. In that election, however, a political wildcard by name of: Campagnolo ‘‘steamroiled” the riding for the Liberals. “There's no Jona in this campaign,” says Donahue. But the NDP and Reform Party ~ both have a jump on the Tories in this election, he concedes. Donahue says outgoing NDP MP Jim Fulton has been touring the riding with candidate Joe Bar- rett preparing the electorate for a “coronation of Little Joe.’’ The Reformers officially opened their campaign office three months ago and have been actively campaigning for much longer. “We could do that, too,’’ Donahue says, ‘But it’s just not our nature.’’ Most members who are strong organizers are also small businessmen. Like Donahue, they aren't inter- ested in taking a lot of time away from their businesses for politics until the writ is dropped, he says. ‘That's their advantage,’ he says of the other parties. ‘Our advantage is to suddenly come up witha sum of money and do- some adverlising.”’ Regardless of the oulcome, Donahue’s happy to see so much interest. and activity in this campaign tt “I count a lot of people across the street — and down on Greig Ave., believe it or not — among my friends. And I expect they’Il sli] be my Friends on Oct. 26th.”” ~ Chasing votes costly business Spending could top $250,000 says the northwest campaign’s of- ficial agent. Frank Donahue says fixed costs “Trl depend on campaign con- ~..-like ~.office “Tent;- -utilities . and -dributions,””. said NDP campaign s:\tiphone bills -could: eats up :tnore 1; ‘emanager:Chiris Hart, adding dona-° *thati’’"$10,000°"’of “the Tory = tions were looking good for this early inthe campaign . The extent to which local party members and supporters dig into their pockets will ultimately _ determine how much money the Barrett campaign has to spend, he explained. Hart also anticipated. area unions would once again be bol- stering NDP finances. Apart from overhead costs on offices in Terrace, Kitimat, Smithers and Prince Rupert, the money will go on leaflet mail- outs, signs and media advertising. While anticipating there would be “more than one’? miail-oul, Hart declined to tip the NDP hand by giving any more details. On media advertising, he said expenditure would probably be split evenly between radio and newspaper, The cost of both producing a suitable ad and air time made it “unlikely the NDP would be using lelevision to get its message out. The Progressive Conserva- tives plan to run a ‘‘no frills, no bells and whisiles’’ campaign, campaign budget. - They’re also spending about $4,000 on signs, and are anticipating travel expenses of pe _ $30,000 will go to more advertis- $3,000 to.$6,000. Donahue says the campaign will carry out at least one more mailout to northwestemers. “They'll do advertising ‘‘of some sort.”’ Although the campaign team had yet to decide how it will spend its advertising dollar, Donahue said television advertis- ing has been ruled out as too ¢x- pensive. **We don’t have the resources for a big splashy campaign,”’ says Donahue. ‘‘That’s just not the campaign we're going to run.’” Meanwhile, Don Silversides, campaign manager for the Liber- als, said he’d worked out four potential budgets, each based ona different level of contributions. While the base budget is $30,000, he’s hoping to have $50,000 to play with. Silversides said the priority spending areas were office over- heads and brochures followed by print and radio advertising. So far, the campaign had spent $1,000 on signs and would be paying out approximately $2,200 for, office. space. . r wet Ty ':*There:-will also be at least one big brochure mail-out: they'll cost about $4,800 each. “Basically, once we get our 6x- mses’ met, anything over ing,’ he said. Again, television advertising is not popular because of channel fragmentation. . However, he added, “If we raise a lot of money, we might put something on TY.”’ The Reform Party hopes to spend $50,000 over the course of this federal election campaign. Reform’s biggest single campaign expenditure so far has been $10,000. on a brochure featuring candidate Mike Scott. Campaign manager Bartie Carter said they'll also spend — about $7,000 on signs, $3,500 mailing owt the brochures and $2,500 on rent for the party’s four campaign offices in Skeena. Phones are about $1,000. They hope’ to spend another $20,000 on top of those expendi- tures, mainly on newspaper ad- vertising. The Reformers are adopting a spend-as-you-go campaign. They say they won't spend money they haven’t raised yet, and that’s why . oj Muh, of their budgetis.siill tenta- tive? anid ‘contingent’ on fund- raising..." - Christian Heritage Party can- didate Luke Kwantes predicts his campaign will spend only $18,000 in Skeena this fall. . ‘We feel it’s pretty much of a minimum,’ he said, adding ‘This is going to be a bare bones kind of campaign.” Therefore, he would be travell- ing the riding in a camper and staying with friends and sup- porters in an attempt to cut costs. And CHP will have just one campaign office, located in Smithers. Noting the donations were al- ready coming in, Kwantes said, “*] would say the bulk will be from individuals, and we do ex- pect some corporate donors.’’ He anticipated most of the money raised would be spent on The National Party expecis to spend $10-15,000, but candidate Isaac Sobol concedes that’s ‘a wild guess’’ at this carly stage. ‘Money: talks,” he admitted, “but this time I hope that ideas talk and people talk.”” Reform MP zeros in on hot seats HALF OF B.C., two-thirds of Al- beria and a sprinkling of the rest of the country is what Reform’s lone MP believes the party could win this election. ~ Deborah Grey, the Reform MP for Beaver River in northeastern Alberta, visited Terrace last Wed- nesday. - Her two-day B,C. tour took her - through to Fort St. John, Terrace, Campbell River, Castlegar and Cranbrook. Those towns are in five B.C. ridings that look ‘‘really good’ for Reform, Grey says. ‘They also feel ihey have a good chance at winning Okanagan ridings. Grey pointed out she lived in “outlying Canada” - three hours from Edmonton - and knew people in those areas appreciated someone taking the time to come and see them. She claims Reform is now on. “the verge of gaining wide accep- tance among Canadians. “T think.people are saying: “Yeah, These people are not craz’ id Leo . : : _ She said her-briefing notes for her Campbell River stop indicate many NDP organizers are sup- porting Reform’s candidate there, Reform has the most detailed plans of any party for economic ’ yeform, she added. ; > Grey rejected criticism that the party would cut social programs. ‘The only thing that is going to destroy our country’s social pro- grams is this debt situation that is taking 35 cents out of every dol- lar.”" . Grey and Skeena. candidate Mike Scott participated in an open line radio show and staged a rally at Reform’s campaign head- quarters, which atlracted about 35 Feople. _ “The Minis Election Notebook Tory turns Reformer DON'T EXPECT one Stewart businessman to donate money as he did in 1988 to the Progressive Conservative election campaign. “Dm still a conservative but not with the Conservative party,”’ Andy Burton said last week. ‘‘I’m supporting (Reform party candi- ‘date) Mike Scott,”’ ’ Burton, who sits on the Reform party’s Skeena riding association executive, said he joined the party three and a half years ago. “To be honest with you, | seriously considered running for the nominalion, I just can’t support the Conservative parly anymore,’’ said Burton. ‘‘I told (Conservative party) candidate Danny Sheridan L can’t support him and he knows that. You've tried the rest, now try the best.”’ Liberals turn into cardsharks “LET'S SEE. I'll trade. you a Mickey Chretiens.” Sound abit funny? Not really being used by the Liberal party. - It’s introducing its candidates on baseball to help generate publicity. Mantle for two Jean judging from one ploy -type cards in an ¢£forl ‘*T think they’re great. We're all getting some done,’ Skeena Lib- eral candidate Rhoda Witherly said last week. Although a visit to the riding this week by Sheila Copps was can- celed, organizers say they are working to bring her here jater.on. There’s also.a possibility Liberal leader Jean Chretien will visit. All candidates planned VOTERS HAVE their chance Oct, 14 to get up close and personal with the Skeena riding candidates. That’s the date of an all candi- dates meeting being sponsored by The Terrace and District Cham- ber of Commerce and ‘The Terrace Standard. It takes place at Ihe R.EM. Lee Theatre beginning at 7 p.m. Each candidate will give opening and closing slatements. Ques- tions can either be asked directly or be written down and voiced by a panel of journalists. Those who'can’t make the mecting can send their questions in advance lo The Terrace Standard, 4647 Lazelle Ave, Terrace, B.C. V8G 158. Cable 10, the community channel, is broadcasting (he meeting live and will rebroadcast it several times leading up to the Oct. 25 vote. Signs of the times IT’S OK to festoon highways rights-of-way with election signs, says the provincial highways ministry. ‘sistant deputy. highways minister Dan Doyle "The Ministry of Transporation and Highways’ policy on lection (sigs is to co-operate’ fully “in “tie'-deniodlatic” prbtess 724 Hie “bs. lastiweek. chart sel! There are six exceptions to the policy and. they concern major roules connecting one part of the province with another. NEVER SAY that National Party cand idate Dr. Isaac Sobol won't be able to shoulder his responsibilities. And that’s the Nass Valley physician’s version of the famous Kim Campbell picture. Sobol used a photo session for for this more humourous approach. a formal photograph THE START IS FOR PEOPLE LEARNING TO READ Arun, This year’s Terry Fox Run was great. The weather was sunny as more than 200 people ~The turned out. . When it. was all over, the people brought in $1,850. The money goes to cancer research. Local schools own. People could either run, Start also raised money. on their Is there enough daycare in the city? . tions. A lot of people say there ‘It says is nol. Young children-end up. lot. slaying with: relatives or with friends after school.” And now one local group wants to know more. . ae The .Terrace. Women’s. Resource. ‘Centre has- will) the -what - is daycare. given out a list of ques- answers to those . [| questions will help out a- The, centre. says. people : n° know -exacily going on with * But there is cone. catch, -The..answers. should .be~-]. sent in by Oct. 8. eee wee ste ge tee walk or bike."