The 2022 City Council race is now well underway and as the campaign period leading to the October 15th vote moves forward, we're starting to see a few of the campaign themes develop for those candidates that have message making in mind.
The majority of those notes at the moment coming from a few of the challengers to the Council incumbents, with both Terri Forster and Andy Chugh sharing their campaign thoughts in recent days.
For Ms. Forster, the recent door knocking has been one of listening to residents to learn of their concerns and ideas towards improving the community.
Mr. Chugh has also been out engaging with would be voters, presenting some of his view of what is needed from government.
Among his themes is a strong advocacy for the Hay's 2.0 program and 2030 Vision Plan, with Mr. Chugh offering up his 7 step checklist towards implementing some of the elements of them.
He also tackles the issue of crime and how he would approach the issue in the community.
Sheila Gordon-Payne the third challenger to the incumbents in the election, has been busy putting campaign signs up around the community, she has also created a Facebook page towards her campaign which you can review here, though few campaign themes are noted as of yet.
As for the incumbents, so far only Councillor Cunningham has been particularly active in his messaging, his most recent notes through social media highlighting some of his work at the recent UBCM gathering.
When it comes to the rest of the current council, so far a note that they're in the race is about all we get, with few discussion points to share to date as to where they may be positioning their quest for a return to office.
In the Mayor's race, the most active candidate so far is Herb Pond, the former mayor from earlier this century seeking a return to the top office, his social media stream has been a steady diet of campaign themes and community messaging.
Not too far off his pace is Crystopher Thompson, he notes through his information stream of the concerns of residents on themes of housing.
Jason Hoang who joined the race for Mayor in August, hasn't had much to share on the quest since his campaign announcement.
Steve Fitzpatrick recently made note of some of the fiscal challenges for Council through a social media page, but other than that the flow of campaign themes is slow to date.
The growing volume of candidate signs at the Prince Rupert Court House lawns makes for the annual visual for the campaign to date.
While one sign, not related to any candidacy seeks to send out a message for voters to take to the election machine in a few weeks.
Notes on the campaign as it moves towards Election Day of October 15th can be reviewed through our archive page.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.
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