Friday, June 13, 2014

Zurowski tries again for PG Mayor

Yesterday - former PG City Councillor Don Zurowski announced that he would try again to become Mayor of Prince George.  Current PG Mayor Shari Green has already announced that she would not try to seek re-election

View video from CKPG here
Read a story from the PG Free Press here
Read a piece from 250News.com here

At this point - there are no other confirmed candidates for PG Mayor.  Councillor Brian Skakun, while under public pressure, has confirmed that he will not be a candidate for Mayor but plans to seek re-election as a PG City Councillor.

Meanwhile - in the region, as far as other local government election announcements go:

Prince George - Councillor Skakun seeks re-election, no other confirmed election announcements

School District #57 (Prince George) - No announcements

Quesnel - No announcements

Wells - No announcements

School District #28 (Quesnel) - No announcements

School District #27 (Cariboo-Chilcotin) - No announcements

Williams Lake - Cariboo RD Area 'D' Alternate Director Steve Forseth is seeking to take over as the Cariboo RD Area 'D' Director in November, no other local gov't election announcements to date.  Councillor SPS Rathor, on his FB Page, says he has an election announcement coming by the end of the month while Tribune columnist Ken Wilson previously speculated publicly that Councillor SPS Rathor will take a run at the Mayor's Chair for Williams Lake this November - read here

100 Mile - No Councillor election announcements while it'll be Mitch Campsall (incumbent) vs Maureen Pinkney (challenger) for the Mayor's Chair once again

Kamloops - Mayor Peter Milobar and Councillors Ken Christian, Arjun Singh, Donovan Cavers, Nelly Devers, Tina Lange, Pat Wallace, Marg Spina are all planning to seek re-election while Dieter Dudy has already stated that he will seek a Councillor seat in November rather than the Mayor's seat like he did in 2011 and almost coming with a few votes of unseating Mayor Milobar

School District #73 (Kamloops) - No announcements

Watch for election announcements starting as early as August for the above areas and into September/October.

~SF


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