Category: Heck Yes/No

A Heck_Yes Heck_No Double Decker!

On the eve of #SalmonArm’s General Voting Day …

Heck_Yes #1 goes to the wide range of experience, capacities and commitment to SA that candidates are offering residents. While the final outcome is unclear, a range of solid citizens have put their good names forward to help make responsible decisions for our city. The large numbers of candidates does mean that residents have work to do to fully understand these choices but this is a good problem for us to have!

Heck_No #1 goes to those few candidates focussing on grievances and conspiratorial thinking as reasons to vote for them. Yup it’s the We/For the People crowd emerging once again after being summarily rejected by voters in 2022. Salmon Arm voters didn’t buy this nonsense 4 years ago and won’t now, no matter what manifestos or post-rationalizations these candidates are now promoting. Time will soon tell but the prospect for chaos and drama associated with these candidates is my big Heck_No of this 2026 campaign.

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A Red Card for Slate Politics

A big red card from me for any political slates who might run in our upcoming local #Salmon Arm election – whether that be some local version or something coordinated at a provincial level. Citizens benefit from having independent candidates with a range of distinct ideas. Local governments, especially smaller ones like ours, are not the place for party, partisan or slate (they’re all intertwined) politics – period. Slates are not the way that local governments work best.

Yes my $0.02 for sure and No I’m not the field referee!

For context an offshoot of the BC Conservative Party announced late last year their intent in running candidates in local govt elections – with a potential list that included Salmon Arm. Time will tell. I’ll have a lot more to say about any version of slate’ish politics as the election nears.