In response to a blog story about the BC Green Party I ran on Sunday - Dr Jane Sterk, Leader of the BC Green Party left me this comment:
Steve,
I want to clarify the Green Party of BC position on the upcoming provincial election campaign. We intend to run exceptional candidates throughout the province. We are not running candidates against Bob Simpson in Cariboo North or against Vicki Huntington in Delta South. Greens value the work done by these hard working MLAs and we will say that publicly in our lead up to the election and encourage people to reelect them.
Our strategy is not substantially different from the Green Party of Canada. They too ran candidates in all ridings (except one where they had a candidate withdraw.) We intend to have several high profile campaigns where we think we have a greater chance of winning. Those ridings will be determined by the candidate, his or her ability to run a focused well-financed campaign, and areas of the province where our analysis suggests that we might win on a four way split. We expect there to be five to 10 of those campaigns.
BC Greens offer the only real alternative to the old parties. I am always puzzled by those who think BC Greens and the BC NDP have similar policies because we don't. That being said, I reached out to Adrian Dix after he was elected leader to see if there was any appetite on the part of the NDP to accommodate on seats. They were not interested.
Jane Sterk, Ph.D. Leader, Green Party of BC
Interesting that Dr. Sterk's party is willing to concede both Cariboo-North & Delta-South. While I believe Vicki Huntingdon will be easily re-elected in 2013, Bob Simpson's chances are a "crap-shoot" depending on who he faces as candidates from the BC Liberals, BC NDP and BC Conservatives in Cariboo-North
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