MORE wild municipal election stuff happening in Ladysmith
Follow up from last week's post:
Plenty of new updates for anyone following the ongoing saga of Stephen Halliday running for council in Ladysmith. I’m reading the Facebook drama, so you don’t have to.
First, Halliday’s “Less taxes, Homeownership, one flag, end racism, two genders, no land acknowledgements” signs are apparently still being destroyed. The two I would see every day are in pieces on the ground. Last I saw, one of the two was covered in (what I assume to be) dog shit.
It has been pointed out that his signs aren’t technically legal, because they don’t have information about who owns them, nor a BC phone number/address of who put them up. This has led to a series of “discussions” on Facebook with the boards being described as “litter”, and questions such as “Can you vandalize litter?”.
Next, yesterday was a candidates’ meet-and-greet session, where all nine people running as councillor got a chance to mingle in a big hall with voters. Halliday turned up, got into an argument with a resident within the first three minutes, started shouting, then flounced out. He then made a woe-is-me Facebook post about “censorship” (even though he chose to leave), while complaining that he didn’t get to give a speech (it wasn’t that sort of event, and nobody gave a speech).
In the meantime, the boycott of his food truck (YaYa’s) is apparently ongoing. Lots of FB comments mysteriously deleted/hidden, etc whenever anything goes up about the truck. In some of the ones remaining, people are telling his Thai bride she should “blink twice if you need help”.
On a serious note, because a bunch of people said last time he was only out for attention, and would definitely lose, etc… there are nine candidates for council - and six of them will be elected. If you are voting in Ladysmith, and don’t want him to get on, you NEED to pick six other names.
Early voting starts tomorrow!