Mayor Green declares war on Township Councillors

In today's Langley Times - they reported Township Mayor Rick Green unveiling his 7 member "team" for the civic elections in November.  See here

A point of interest though - he directly attacks Township Councillors Jordan Bateman, Bev Dornan, Steve Ferguson, Charlie Fox, Grant Ward, Bob Long and Kim Richter and called them the "Six Pack plus One"

Councillors Bateman, Ward, and Ferguson - I understand because of the intense personal interaction between these Councillors and TOL Mayor Rick Green.  But I must profess - I was scratching my head when he said that Councillors Dornan, Long, Fox and Richter must go as well.  These Councillors rarely if ever (all of the times I've observed Township Council meetings) had any interaction with Rick Green at TOL Council meetings.  As such - it is my conclusion that Mr. Green feels that all 7 of these Councillors have voted as a "block" and because of how they voted, contrary to his wishes and his 2008 campaign platform - Mr. Green has decided these 7 Councillors should all go, save TOL Councillor Mel Kositsky

I believe TOL residents should be scratching their heads at both this move and comments from TOL Mayor Rick Green

Again - this move plus any others in the Township of Langley, relating to the civic election in November, will make this muncipality the one to watch on November 19th

SBF

Civic slate coming to the Township of Langley municipal election

As reported tonight - local Langley blogger and Township of Langley (TOL) Councillor Jordan Bateman reports that current Township of Langley Mayor Rick Green has formed a civic slate called "Vote Langley Now".  See his blog post here

Now, from what I read on TOL Politics - slates are not new but haven't been seen since the former LLT or Langley Leadership Team days of former Mayor John Scholtens.  It will be interesting to see how this development will affect this fall's TOL civic election and especially what impact it'll have on both the challengers to TOL Council this November and also current TOL Councillors Bev Dornan, Charlie Fox, Steve Ferguson, Grant Ward, Bob Long, Kim Richter, Mel Kositsky and Jordan Bateman


Please keep in mind that anyone watching TOL Council knows that TOL Mayor Rick Green has not gotten along with TOL Councillors Grant Ward, Steve Ferguson and Jordan Bateman

The TOL civic race will likely go down as being one of the important civic elections to watch in all of British Columbia

SBF

Update at 11:52pm Tuesday - Langley Advance is covering this development here and here