Where is Lets Go P.G.?
By Ben Meisner
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 03:45 AM
The first of the current Council to make their run for re-election is Cameron Stolz.
The official nomination period doesn't actually start for another two weeks, and with the exception of Councillor Don Bassermann, all sitting Councillors and the current Mayor are expected to file their papers for re-election.
You may recall that during the last civic election, a group called "Let's Go P.G." pumped money into the campaigns of several candidates. In it's final financial report filed with the City, "Let's Go P.G." reported it had a balance of $3,777.63, which the member who filed the report (Dan McLaren) said would be used as seed money for the next civic election.
That time is nearly upon us.
McLaren is listed as the Chairman of Let's Go P.G. on that financial report ( which also bears the stamp of lawyer Grant Zimmerman) and was the single largest contributor having put $5 grand into the fund. Some of the other names of contributors to Let's Go P.G. may sound familiar;
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Gordon Langer $1,500.00,
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David McWalter $1,000.00 and
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Grant Zimmerman who put $400.00 into the pot
In all, the Let’s Go Prince George group raised $42,650.00 and spent $38,872.37 supporting 5 civic candidates, three of whom were successful in their bid; Garth Frizzell, Brian Skakun, and Shari Green.
Councillor Garth Frizzell received $7,356.50 from the fund and a further $2,090.00 from Dan McLaren for signs, for a total of $9,446.50. Frizzell also received a $200.00 contribution from Heather Oland who was later listed as a Director of Commonwealth Campuses on June 29th-2010. The total contribution was $9,646.50 of the $20, 217.82 total spent by Frizzell in his election bid.
Between Let’s Go PG and L&M Engineering (a company controlled by David McWalter), Councillor Brian Skakun received more than one half of the total money he spent on his campaign from these two sources. In his declaration Skakun says he spent a total of $13,295.65. He received $7,356.36 from Let's Go PG and a further $200.00 from David McWalter for a total of $7,556.36.
Councillor Shari Green also was supported by Let's Go PG; she received $7,356.36 from their fund along with a further $200.00 from David McWalter. Green spent $21,102.60 on her campaign.
Councillors Krause, Basserman, Wilbur and Stolz did not benefit from the "Let's Go P.G." fund. David McWalter contributed $200.00 to each of them for their campaign.
Debora Munoz, received $100.00 from Dan and Kim McLaren.
Mayor Dan Rogers received a contribution of $1,000.00 from David McWalter. Rogers spent $63,722.81 on his campaign.
On June 29th-2010 , about a year and a half after the elected Council was sworn in, Commonwealth Campuses changed its board of directors to include Dan McLaren, David McWalter, Heather Oland, Dan Gialleonardo, Don Kehler and Gordon Langer.
So what does "Let's Go P.G. have planned for this election? Opinion 250 has placed a call to Dan McLaren for details on how the left over "seed money" will be put to use for this civic election, our call had not been returned by publication time.
I'm Meisner and that's one man's opinion.
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Posted by: middle finger on September 21 2011 6:02 AM