Last night the Executive of the Cariboo North Riding Association met and discussed the recent action that NDP Leader Carole James has taken against the Riding’s MLA. The Executive passed a motion supporting Bob Simpson remaining as the NDP MLA for Cariboo North.
“The Executive believes that what Leader Carole James did was an unjust overreaction to our MLA’s mild critique of her speech” said Riding Association President Keith Sandve.
“We believe that one of the fundamental principles of democracy is freedom of speech and the ability of our elected officials to act in accordance with their conscience and their common sense. We do not want our candidate to give up his principles or to mute his consistent and intelligent criticism of the problems with our electoral system.”
The President of the Riding Association will take the Cariboo North Executive’s concerns to the Party Executive and ask that MLA Simpson’s presence be restored on the Party’s website as he was not removed from the Party only the Caucus.
Fifteen people attended the Executive meeting and only one person abstained from voting.
The Executive also passed a motion reaffirming their previous motion calling for a Leadership Convention in 2011, again with one abstention. This motion will be taken to the Riding Association’s General Meeting on November 5th for ratification of the full membership.
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