From newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca Tue Apr 5 13:50:07 2005 From: newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca (BC NDP NEWSWIRE) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 12:50:07 -0800 Subject: [LabComm] Campbell keeping BC Liberals on a tight leash - MacPhail Message-ID: Campbell keeping BC Liberals on a tight leash - MacPhail BC Liberal candidates refuse to participate in public debates Vancouver - Gordon Campbell is refusing to debate the issues that matter most to British Columbians and continues to run from any public discussion of his pre-election budget, NDP MLA Joy MacPhail said today. "Gordon Campbell said he was shutting down the Legislature six weeks early to take his pre-election budget on the road," said MacPhail. "But the Premier and all BC Liberal candidates are refusing to engage in debate on the merits of the budget or the real issues facing this province." Campbell set the stage for a two-month election campaign when he closed down the Legislature six weeks early, yet BC Liberal candidates are not willing to engage in public debates until the writ is dropped on April 19. "We are in campaign mode," said MacPhail. "New Democrats are ready to debate the issues that matter to British Columbians, but Mr. Campbell and his candidates are hiding from the voters." MacPhail said that the Premier is spending taxpayer dollars at a record pace in a bid to convince voters that after four years of aggressive cuts and privatization he has changed. "But this looks like the same old Gordon Campbell to me," said MacPhail. "Just like in 2001, Mr. Campbell will say anything to get elected, and then implement his real agenda once in power." BC Liberal candidates failed to show up for a debate hosted by the BC Nurses Union on the future of health care, did not attend the UBC Environmental Law forum, and this morning on the Bill Good Show Liberal Cabinet Minister Susan Brice refused to debate MacPhail. "It is time for the Premier and all BC Liberal candidates to tell British Columbians their real agenda for the province, and engage in open and public debate on the keys issues of this election, including health care and the further privatization of public assets and services," said MacPhail. "If Mr. Campbell is so proud of his record in office then why are his candidates refusing to debate Carole James' new team?" - 30 - To unsubscribe or change your settings go to: http://www.e-2ve6y.signup2.bc.ndp.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca Sun Apr 17 19:57:03 2005 From: newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca (BC NDP NEWSWIRE) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:57:03 -0800 Subject: [LabComm] Election 2005 kickoff! Message-ID: Election 2005 kickoff! Dear Friend: It's time to take action! After four years of broken promises, higher costs for ordinary families, and damaging cuts to key public services, we finally have a chance to send Gordon Campbell a strong message. It's time to make British Columbia a place where everyone matters. Things are heating up and the campaign is hitting the road as Carole James reaches out to British Columbians in all corners of the province. Carole will be kicking off the 2005 election campaign in Victoria with the Lower Island candidates on Monday April 18 at 6:00 p.m. If you live on the Island, come out and help launch the campaign with a bang! We'll be at the Alix Goolden Performance Hall at the Victoria Conservatory of Music located at 907 Pandora Avenue. Everyone is welcome! On Tuesday April 19, Carole and the Lower Mainland candidates will be in Vancouver for the Lower Mainland kickoff at 6:30 p.m. at the Italian Cultural Centre located 3075 Slocan Street (at Grandview Hwy, by Renfrew Skytrain Station). On Thursday, Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 6:00 p.m. Carole will be at the Moose Hall at 406 Fortune Drive in Kamloops, for the Kamloops and Kamloops-North Thompson kick-off. Then on the 23rd, Carole and our candidates will be in Prince George at the Coast Inn of the North Hotel at 770 Brunswick Street. Local candidates need your help!
And local campaigns are heating up in every constituency. Signs are going up, leaflets are being distributed and offices are opening. We are fighting for every seat in this election. We have the chance to send record numbers of New Democrats to Victoria, but we need your help to make that happen. Take action today! To get in touch with the NDP campaign in your area, click here. On the ground and in the airwaves!
On Tuesday, we will be launching our election TV ads. To get a sneak preview, visit our website at bcndp.ca or click here. Friends, we have come a long way. New Democrats have held Gordon Campbell and his MLA's to account for four years of broken promises and I am proud of the way New Democrats have stood up to the Campbell government's one-sided agenda. But with four weeks left to go, we will be working hard in every corner of the province to elect NDP MLA's who will represent their communities with a strong voice. It's time to take action. Because everyone matters. Gerry Scott, Campaign Manager 2005, BC NDP P.S. Please send this to 5 friends who you think share your concern about the one-sided record of the Gordon Campbell Liberals! To unsubscribe or change your settings go to: http://www.e-2ve6y.signup2.bc.ndp.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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After four years of Gordon Campbell's broken promises, fee increases, and mismanagement, I have heard clearly that British Columbians want their government to focus on getting a few very important things right. Our common-sense, practical commitments are centred on improving the lives of average British Columbians through very specific actions to rescue public health care, to help young people get the education they need, to improve our environment, and to restore integrity to government. Our seven key commitments are: - Open 1,000 long-term care beds this year and 5,000 more over four years. - Reduce wait lists and clean up dirty, over-crowded hospitals. - Freeze post-secondary tuition fees, double apprenticeships and begin to reduce K-12 class size. - Stop privatization to ensure low Hydro and ICBC rates and scrap the $6 training wage. - Balance the budget and ensure people in all regions share the benefits of a strong, competitive economy. - Restore support for the most vulnerable - seniors and children, the disabled and the poor. - Re-establish the Ministry of the Environment and enforce clean air and water standards. To download a copy of the commitments, visit http://www.bcndp.ca Gordon Campbell's mean-spirited agenda has had a profoundly negative impact on average families, struggling to support their children's education and worried about what lies ahead for their parents. It's time to end one-sided government that benefits only a few. Our seven practical, common sense key commitments reflect the priorities of ordinary families - and we are proud to have all British Columbians know exactly where we stand on these important issues. But we need your help to have these commitments turned into action on May 18th. Please get involved in this important election campaign. To get involved in your local campaign, click here. http://www.candidates.bc.ndp.ca/ Thanks so much for your support! Carole James, Leader BC New Democratic Party To unsubscribe or change your settings go to: http://www.e-2ve6y.signup2.bc.ndp.ca/ Authorized by Cheryl Hewitt, Financial Agent 604-430-8600 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Defeating the Campbell government is going to take a well-funded, aggressive campaign for the next month. If you feel the same way as me then I urge you to click on the donation button and help make a BCNDP victory possible. This election campaign is short but it's incredibly important. If we can stop four more years of Campbell government then we will have changed the divisive, destructive course of BC politics. But we have to act today. To win enough seats to swing the election in our favour will take nothing less than the effort of every single BC citizen who believes in a province of limitless opportunities for everyone who lives and works here -- not for just a favoured few. What will it take to move BC away from the Campbell way of politics? It'll take a lot of television, radio and newspaper ads. And it'll take more staff to help run the best campaign possible in every part of this province. Carole needs your help and mine to guarantee the resources to spread our positive message for this province. Let's tell Carole that we believe in a more positive future for every person in BC by making an election-day donation. Click on the donate button to make a secure online donation to the BCNDP. I've already made a contribution. I'd like you to do the same. If I could leave politics knowing that this email was a part of Gordon Campbell's defeat, then I would sleep a lot better. And I think you would too. Sincerely, Joy McPhail To unsubscribe or change your settings go to: http://www.e-2ve6y.signup2.bc.ndp.ca/ Authorized by Cheryl Hewitt, Financial Agent 604-430-8600 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"When fire devastated the community of Barriere later that year, the consequences of the imbalance became all too clear. Tolko walked away from the community with its hold on the local log supply completely intact." James said that the imbalance came from changes that: * eliminated the requirement that companies return 5% of their license when that license is transferred to another company, encouraging consolidation and reducing competition; * removed cut control restrictions that required companies to cut a certain amount of timber each year, exaggerating the boom and bust cycle of the industry that cut control was put in place to ameliorate; and, * eliminated the local processing requirement, encouraging companies to move processing jobs out of small communities. "Even worse, Gordon Campbell paid more than $600,000 to make it easier for the town's primary employer to walk away," said James. "When a BC community needs support, the Gordon Campbell government delivers the opposite, even as Campbell claims credit for the economy." James said that for four years, the Gordon Campbell government has all but ignored the communities of central and interior British Columbia. "Gordon Campbell has taken every opportunity to shift the balance against communities," said James. "It's time to restore balance and end one-sided decision-making." "I am committed to ensuring that people in all regions share in the benefits of a strong, competitive economy," said James. "My plan includes regional economic investment to support resource dependant communities. It also includes local input on decisions in forest communities on new or expanded timber allocations, harvesting agreements, and log exports." 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Everywhere I go, I hear British Columbians telling me they are tired of old-style leadership and divisive politics in B.C. I believe the time has come for new ideas, for working together to end confrontation, and for focussing on solutions that make life better and more affordable for every British Columbian. That's why I'm asking you to support the BC NDP election campaign. We need your support right now to keep up the momentum. Click the button below to make a secure, tax-creditable donation right now to support the BC NDP. We finally have the chance to start undoing the damage that Gordon Campbell has done to this province. Over the past four years we've witnessed cuts to health care and social services, privatization of our public services, unprecedented tuition increases -- all part of a one-sided agenda that punishes and divides ordinary people -- especially those most vulnerable in our society. I refuse to believe in Gordon Campbell's doom-and-gloom politics. I believe, as do many British Columbians, that our province holds limitless opportunities, and that our prosperity must be shared and enjoyed among all British Columbians. But now is a critical time in the campaign. We have had a good start -- now we need to keep up the momentum so we can be successful on May 17th. I hope you will join me in bringing this message of hope to B.C. voters. That's why I'm asking you to make a contribution today to help the BC NDP - your support at this critical moment can make all the difference! To unsubscribe or change your settings go to: http://www.e-2ve6y.signup2.bc.ndp.ca/ Authorized by Cheryl Hewitt, Financial Agent 604-430-8600 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca Tue Apr 26 16:51:18 2005 From: newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca (BC NDP NEWSWIRE) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:51:18 -0800 Subject: [LabComm] Why is Campbell using tax $$ for his election campaign? Message-ID: Why is Campbell using tax $$ for his election campaign? Take action to stop Campbell's inappropriate use of government resources Dear Friend - Before the election, Gordon Campbell spent millions of taxpayer dollars on feel good advertising to promote his government. And now, in the middle of the election, he's at it again. This time using our money to promote the Liberal platform. Today, the Province newspaper reported that the BC Liberals have used a government website - which is supposed to be strictly neutral - to promote Liberal election propaganda! And there's more. New allegations of using legislative resources to solicit Liberal party donations are rocking the ethically-challenged Campbell Liberals. Municipal officials have reported that they were solicited to attend a conference on regional diversification. The invitation was sent on Legislative Assembly letterhead but later the attendees were told to make their cheques payable to the BC Liberal Party! Using non-partisan, taxpayer funded resources to run an election campaign is not only unethical, it may in fact be illegal. Do we really want four more years of this? It's time to take action! There are three things you can do to help: 1.Send a letter to your local newspaper demanding that Gordon Campbell stop using of taxpayer dollars to fund the Liberals' election campaign and pay the money back. To go to our "speak-out" section of the website where you can send a letter to local newspapers, click here:http://getinvolved-speakout.bc.ndp.ca/ 2.Help Carole James keep up the pressure to keep Gordon Campbell accountable. Please support this effort - whatever you can afford. Click here: https://www.bc.ndp.ca/index.php?page_id=64& 3.Pass this message on to five friends who you think are as concerned about Gordon Campbell's unethical use of taxpayer money as you are. We need to spread the word! Please, take action today! Thanks, Gerry Scott, Campaign manager, BCNDP ------- Letter from NDP leader Carole James to Liberal Party leader Gordon Campbell April 26, 2005 Gordon Campbell Leader, BC Liberal Party Dear Mr. Campbell, You will be familiar with media reports today regarding your Party's inappropriate use of government or Legislative resources to support your election campaign and fundraising. In the first instance, it is now apparent that your government utilized professional civil servants to provide partisan political support to your election campaign. In the second instance, it is clear from media reports that your government has used Legislative Assembly letterhead to effectively solicit political donations from local governments in exchange for meetings with Cabinet Ministers and key government staff. I expect that you would agree with me that both these initiatives are completely inappropriate and should cease immediately. I am asking you to provide the public with the following information: - Exactly how much money has the BC Liberal Party raised by requiring local government officials to donate to the BC Liberal Party in exchange for meetings with you or other members of your government, or your government's officials? - Exactly how much taxpayers' money has been spent by your government on the so-called "Four Years of Action - New Era Promises Made and Kept" section of the Government website, which is linked directly to your BC Liberal Party campaign website? Further, I ask that when this accounting of inappropriate donations and inappropriate use of taxpayer-funded government staff is complete that you order the BC Liberal Party to refund the inappropriate donations to the local government officials who provided them, and that your Party refund to the provincial treasury the full cost of the production of the website materials. In addition, I expect that you will provide this information to the Chief Electoral Officer, the Office of the Auditor General, as well as the Office of the Legislative Comptroller for their review of any impacts of your Party's actions on their respective jurisdictions. I am shocked that you would consider this kind of conduct to be acceptable. I trust that a full and frank accounting - and the necessary repayment for inappropriate political use of taxpayers' dollars - will be forthcoming today. Sincerely, Carole James Leader, BC NDP cc: Harry Neufeld, Chief Electoral Officer Wayne Strelioff, Auditor General Peter Bray, Legislative Comptroller Michael Smyth, Vancouver Province Provincial media To unsubscribe or change your settings go to: http://www.e-2ve6y.signup2.bc.ndp.ca/ Authorized by Cheryl Hewitt, Financial Agent 604-430-8600 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We need to get out the message about the Liberals unethical and under-handed tactics on the street, at the door, on TV, and through the mail. But that takes money. That's why I need you to click on the button below. Your donation will help us reach out and prove to as many B.C. citizens as possible that the BC NDP is without a doubt the only choice for government. A chance like this only comes around once an election and we can't miss it. I wish I'd had email when I was fighting the election of 1975. Some of the outrageous statements of the Socreds and Bill Bennett needed the instant response that the Internet gives us today. But that was then and this is now and I'm sending you this urgent email because we can't afford to miss this chance. I hate to admit it, but I don't really use email. But when I first heard about the Liberals' fundraising scam, I was so angry. I wanted to shout from the rooftops. Then somebody told me to send an email to people who felt just like me. 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