Riding Profile: Delta South
Posted May 7, 2013 2:31 pm.
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DELTA (NEWS1130) – If Vicki Huntington thinks everyone is out to get her, she may be right.
News1130’s “Your Vote” riding profiles continues with a look at Delta South, where the independent incumbent is fighting off challengers from BC’s two leading parties.
Longtime Delta councillor Bruce McDonald is running for the Liberals.
“Delta needs to have a place at the table, an independent under our system of government may work hard, but they’re just not heard,” he says.
Nic Slater is hoping to be a voice for Delta in an NDP government.
“I think if you speak to go and speak to any professor in political science they tell you that independents have little ability to achieve anything,” he explains.
“There’s that old saying in politics: losers don’t legislate.”
But Huntington has overcome tough odds before. She was first elected four years ago after beating then Attorney General Wally Oppal but just 32 votes.
Huntington is also one of several independents who makes a strong case for going it alone in Victoria. “You have to remember that only Cabinet is government and government backbenchers are told what is going to happen and what the platforms are and what the decisions are and they are expected to support those.”
