oy Sk BY Opinion 2 ™eReview Wednesday, June 13,1990 — AS Showdown at the Bulkley Valley- -Stikine Corral 4 VICTORIA — “As a norther- Kempf also has taken the battle aS chief of the local development In the meantime, some things ner, Barrie knows first-hand the for the nomination, largely fought Tegion, a post he says he resigned _ have changed. Not that the Socreds natural splendor of our region. He behind the scenes until now, into from. are the odds-on-favorite to win the has skied on our mountains, That the Socred camp in Omin- next election — the way it looks worked in Our forests, fished iN OUr eca or the new niding of Bulkley now, they may well lose it — but TIVEIS . . . Nominate Barrie Carter Valley-Stikine is split asunder Vander Zalm is back in control of as candidate for MLA Bulkley shouldn’t surprise anyone. Kempf caucus and, to a lesser extent, the Valley Stikine.” didn’t exactly keep a low profile party. Carter is the guy who wants to while Vander Zalm was teetenng The critics have been silenced. send Jack Kempf into political on the brink of political extinction. The dissenters have come back retirement. And he’s got the sup- Fearing that Vander Zalm had lost into the fold, all except Kempf. 5 port of not just a few Socreds in grass roots support for good, True, the Social Credit caucus has Gifts for a" the area. They can’t or don’t want Kempf not only spoke out against gone on record favoring his return, to forgive the maverick MLA for the premier but told the Socred but the official invitation will not EVE RY having acted according to his own caucus to stuff it. come until after June 16. , convictions to the point of leaving And what are Kempf’s chances BU DGET the Social Credit caucus when : 5 to beat Carter? I think they’re Premier Vander Zalm appeared to Carter's supporters good. I think when it comes to FREE destroy the party single-handedly. Stress that their man scrapping, Kempf has got the bet- GIET WR The fight over the nomination : has a good chance ter of Carter. In the south, Kempf APPING has been more than just a family the Public arena. In a letter to Dae lb (Both Locations) 5 Omineca Social Credit part of winning the next would Be 4 gonen Bul up nore, scrap. Kempf says Carter’s camp = patty, < F individuality still means some- has tried every trick in the book to ™embers, he accuses “the oppos- election. They don't thing. A lot of supporters believe undermine his chances of winning 18 Campin Smithers” of waging a say, at least not a? Jack harassed the premier SID N EY the nomination. Siicale Can Pale abauust him. publicly, that Kempf te deserved it. : PH ARMACY Carter’s supporters stress that __ Difficult though itis toreply 0 — Gouidn’t win the riding And looking beyond the nomi- their man has a good chance of inuendo and dark hintings for the Socreds’ nation, itll be difficult for the | 2416 BEACON AVE. winning the next election. They designed to cause doubts in the Socreds to win the riding in the 656-1168 don’t say, at least not publicly, that Minds of those who must choose a next election, but I’m pretty sure Kempf couldn't win the riding for candidate on June 16 in Smithers, I Kempf’s anti-Vander Zalm Kempf has a better chance than 2425B BEVAN AVE. 2 the Spore. feel that the time has come to stance was also, at least in part, Carter to pull it off 656-1168 Meanwhile, Kempf has not been acknowledge my awareness of fuelled by the unfair treatment he : idle. He’s been spending a-lot of ey. uae eee tactics,” re he had received at the hands of . time in the riding, rebuilding ‘€Mpl! says in his letter. € premier, but more than any- a i bridges, garnering ee and sel- Carter is no newcomer to poli- thing else, it was Kemp’s convic- ARMY N AVY and ling new memberships. He says CS, not to backroom politics at _ ton that the Socreds were through he’s outsold his opponent two-to- any rate. He ran Dave Parker’s last that prompted him to sit as an AIR FO RCE One. campaign and, for a while, served independent. Ve terans in Cana da 9813-4th Si. 656-3777 Harcourt says park’s cant areas now will help our help establish “a proper balance LIVE MUSIC . 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