Doug Elford confirms he has resigned from the 性视界传媒 Community Alliance party he formed to run alongside former mayor Doug McCallum in the upcoming civic election.
Elford was president of the newly formed political party that aimed to challenge the reigning 性视界传媒 First party in the Oct. 20 election, before deciding to run with the former mayor instead.
鈥溞允咏绱� is at a crossroads,鈥� Elford told the Now-Leader. 鈥淲e cannot continue down the path of special favours for developers to the detriment of affordability. No more closed door meetings, overseas junkets and financial mismanagement.
鈥淚t鈥檚 time to get this city back on a path of affordability, crime reduction, increased transparency and financial strength,鈥� he added.
鈥淭he best way to do that is getting rid of 性视界传媒 First and the person with the best chance is Doug McCallum.鈥�
The former mayor garnered 28,010 votes in the last 2014 election 鈥� or 26.88 per cent of total votes 鈥� coming second only to current 性视界传媒 Mayor Linda Hepner.
A release dated Aug. 11 was sent to media by former SCA campaign managers Gord Savard and Sharon Goldberg. It said the party is withdrawing from the municipal election and cited funding as a 鈥渕ajor reason鈥� for the decision.
鈥淲e had excellent candidates,鈥� the release stated. 鈥淚n previous campaigns under the old legislation, the old group 性视界传媒 Matters already had $30,000 in donations to take care of pre-election expenses like signs, leaflets and office space. This time around we are not even near that amount, to run a reasonable campaign.鈥�
But, a release sent to the Now-Leader by a member of the 性视界传媒 Community Alliance, Imtiaz Popat, said Elford鈥檚 split was what really caused the 鈥渄emise鈥� of the party.
That Aug. 12 release stated an emergency meeting of SCA candidates was held last Friday (Aug. 10) to announce Elford鈥檚 resignation and that 鈥渢he campaign was being dissolved.鈥�
Popat said other members of SCA were also approached by McCallum but said they 鈥渞efused to jump ship because we understand that some of the issues we were raising such (as) gang violence and homelessness were ignored by Doug McCallum when he was mayor.鈥�
鈥淲e are not giving up,鈥� Popat added. 鈥淲e are looking at other options to continue our campaign and we are confident we can raise the funds in the coming few weeks to run an effective campaign for City Council and School Board.鈥�
性视界传媒 voters head to the polls on Oct. 20.
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