Editor:
Re: MLA not ready to retire, May 20
I found it very timely you would run an article on our independent MLA along with the challengers lining up to face her next year.
Timely because recently Vicki Huntington brought an idea to the floor of the legislature that was meant to allow more work to be done in the time allotted when the legislature is in session. The idea was to limit the amount of time spent on applause and verbal cat calls, etc. that permeates daily activity.
When she rose to read her suggestion, the members of both parties applauded and jeered through her entire presentation so the idea couldn't be heard. I guess when you have worked hard in the 74 days the government was in session during 2015, you don't want anyone telling you there just might be a way to get more done. What arrogance.
Also in March of this year the legislature broke into verbiage, usually associated with a pre-fight discussion in a bar, between the Liberal mines minister and an NDP critic. Immature and uncalled for.
Then there was the incredible "Elbowgate" that the media investigated in depth from Ottawa. More of childish party politics at its best.
Provincially or federally, this is not government, this is groups of individuals elected to a position with no experience, no priorities, limited capabilities and few manners, who have pledged allegiance to their political party, and not the people who elected them.
They show a complete disregard for taxpayers' money, perform well below anything that would be accepted in private industry and show no interest in the concerns of the public they represent.
So when you report that people are lining up to challenge Huntington in 2017 it only says to me that these challengers would be in Victoria to represent the Liberals or the NDP and I believe the last thing South Delta needs is an MLA that is just a party representative. With Huntington we have an honest MLA that only answers to the people of South Delta.
I find it really refreshing what Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are doing to the elite of party politics in the United States.
Decades of waste, mismanagement, poor judgment and creative accounting on all sides of government have created debt that our great grandchildren will still be paying, and we have very little to show for all that money spent.
I'm sure Huntington's challengers will be well known people in the community, but no matter how good they are or what they have done, in Victoria they would simply be another Liberal or NDP reading from the party playbook.
So I'll stay with Huntington who is free to express her thoughts, and is more than happy to listen to my concerns as a South Delta taxpayer.
Greg Hoover
