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Gordie Hogg, former Mayor of White Rock threw his hat in the ring for Mayor of Surrey. Unless he's moved, he doesn't even live in Surrey! He's had quite a list of elected offices. He was on White Rock Council for 10 years, then White Rock's mayor for another 10 years. He served as a Member of the BC Legislature from 1997 to 2017. In 2017 he was elected as a Member of Parliament and lost in the next election in 2019. He ran federally in 2021 but lost again.
We have another current Member of Parliament running for Mayor. Sukh Dhaliwal who is the current MP for Surrey-Newton. He hasn't said if he's taken a leave of absence to run for mayor. He was first elected as a Member of Parliament in 2008. In 2011 he was defeated by Jinny Sims. He defeated Jinny Sims in 2015 and has been an MP since.
Jinny Sims, former President of the BC Teachers Federation, Member of Parliament from 2011 to 2015. She then ran for provincial politics in 2017 and she's been my MLA in Surrey-Panorama since then. She has taken a leave of absence from her MLA position to run as mayor. Didn't hear that from Mr Dhaliwal! My many nice emails to Jinny didn't even receive a reply. However, they did manage to send me a request for money. They enclosed a self-addressed stamped envelope so of course I answered it with a long letter of why I would never support Jinny as she's done little for the citizens of Surrey. She's running for Mayor?
Doug McCallum our current mayor has announced he too will run. He's been criminally charged, but that doesn't seem to deter his political ambitions. He is innocent until proven guilty but his trial isn't until after October 15 election. Years ago the RCMP gave him a DUI and that's why he wants them replaced. He's started to transition the police and made himself chair of the police board. He's facing a criminal charge and refuses to step aside as mayor or chair of the police board. That pretty well sums him up.
Brenda Locke was an MLA from 2001 - 2006. In 2018 she was elected as a Councillor in Surrey and has served us well ever since. BTW, I'm on Team Brenda! She answers phone calls and emails. She supports the homeless and women's shelters. She works tirelessly in Surrey to make this a better place. She's been very outspoken about the Surrey council members and mayor who banned seven senior citizens from city council meetings. She's opposed the transition of the RCMP to our own police force as no business case or cost/benefit analysis was ever done. Today a city employee reported the salaries of over 100 police officers are not being charged to the transition but to another account. Dougie the creative accountant! We have never been told what the real cost to taxpayers for replacing the RCMP with our own police force will be.
Why are so many people with a lot of legislative experience running in Surrey?
With all these candidates the vote will be split and I have no idea who will win. It will be an interesting couple of months before our election.
