BC Socreds mount comeback, one candidate at a time
Posted May 7, 2013 7:33 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – It was the party of “Wacky” Bennett and his son Bill and it ruled BC almost uninterrupted for nearly 40 years before going down in defeat in 1991. Today, the provincial Social Credit party is mounting something of a comeback.
After sitting out the 2009 election, the Socreds are fielding one solitary candidate in the riding of Vancouver-Hastings: Carrol Woolsey.
Woolsey is the party’s president and basically the leader, too, since there hasn’t been an official one for 13 years now.
“Whatever the outcome here is, the BC Social Credit Party is not going away,” she insists.
“You can say that we’ve hid in plain sight because we have filed the annual financials every year, we have money in the bank, and we’re not going to go away.”
Woolsey admits the party had hoped to field two candidates, but the woman who was going run in Fraserview couldn’t get her paperwork in on time.
“She handed in her booklet and some of the signatures weren’t legible. For whatever reason, we had to race back out there, got another 12, but she did not get her book back in time to the Returning Office, so that leaves just me,” explains Woolsey.
So what does the party stand for in 2013, you ask?
For one thing, Woolsey, a realtor by trade, would like to see the Property Transfer Tax scrapped, as she feels it makes it too difficult for first time homebuyers to get into the market.
