The New Westminster Record published New West municipal candidate profiles recently, and in them the candidates had to answer a handful of questions. While they weren’t nearly as good as my questions, they did come with one simple rule:
Answers were limited to 50 words unless otherwise specified.
Pretty simple rule, right? Let’s see who was able to follow that simple rule! Candidates get a ✅ for succeeding and a ❌ for failing. Even if you miss one question, you fail! It’s a simple test, you should be able to do it!
Mayoral Candidates
✅ Jimmie Bell
✅ Nikki Binns
✅ Jonathan Cote
❌ Harm Woldring (2/5)
Council Candidates
✅ Chinu Das
❌ Daniel Fontaine (4/5)
✅ Troy Hunter
✅ Mike Ireland
✅ Patrick Johnstone
✅ Jaimie McEvoy
✅ Paul McNamara
✅ Nadine Nakagawa
❌ Benny Ogden (4/5)
✅ Chuck Puchmayr
✅ Angela Sealy
✅ Mary Trentadue
✅ Ellen Vaillancourt
❌ Bryn Ward (4/5)
School Trustee Candidates
✅ Steve Tsonev
❌ Maya Russell (4/5)
❌ Mary Lalji (4/5)
❌ J.P. LeBerg (4/5)
✅ Gurveen Dhaliwal
✅ Dee Beattie
❌ Doug Woodward (2/5)
❌ Danielle Connelly (3/5)
✅ Anita Ansari
❌ Lisa Falbo (2/5)
✅ Cyrus Sy
❌ Alejandro Diaz (3/5)
❌ Mark Gifford (3/5)
Hard-Hitting Conclusions
School Trustee candidates, almost all of you need to go back to school and learn how to follow rules. I mean seriously, only five of you could follow simple directions? That’s not even enough to form a full school board! It’s really depressing to see so many of you fail such a simple set of directions, and I’m not being sarcastic here. Seriously, attention to detail is a key skill that you all should have when you’re trying to get elected to run an $80 million organization. If you can’t be bothered to use a simple word count webpage then why should we trust you to understand the details of complex policies you’ll be coming up with to further the education of our children? That’s a serious question and I invite any of you with a ❌ next to your name to leave a comment below. And this time you don’t have a word limit.
I was originally planning on doing a breakdown between Team Cote and the New West Progressives and the independents but honestly, after seeing the terrible results from the School Trustee candidates I don’t have the willpower. Oh, alright, maybe I do, here we go.
Team Cote: 12/14
New West Progressives: 3/8
Independents: 6/11 (three haven’t answered, let’s pray to God that they read this post and figure out how to follow rules)