By Pepper Parr
October 28th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
Earlier today we published a piece saying the die had been cast as far as the selection of a candidate to run for the Conservative party in Burlington.
Someone involved in the nomination process, which includes individuals seeking the nomination, told us that their understanding was that the nomination would take place on November 16th.
We received notice a few minutes ago from Chair, Burlington Conservative Association who is also Chair, Candidate Nomination Committee (CNC)
that:
The copy is flat-out misinformation and needs to be retracted.
There is no meeting planned for Saturday, Nov 16.
Your source is wrong and needs to be vetted by your paper.
We have revised the story and removed the information we now know to be untrue.
We have not had much success in reaching people at the Burlington Conservative Association. There are no links to people who can be reached at the Association to get confirmation on their web site.
We apologize for any awkwardness we might have created – but we were unable to reach anyone. We now have a contact.
We are members of the Association and trying to reach President and Past President who are (or should be) in control of what is going on and should be able to keep us the members informed via the website is not good. We understand the issue previously was they had not been informed by head office when the cut off date was for obtaining membership. But that is now done and members should be allowed to attend at least one well organised and presented debate prior to casting their vote. This is the very minimum access to all three candidates our Board should provide.
We believe membership sales were good now let’s get down to putting the democratic process in place for selecting our best candidate. It’s not always the candidate who goes to front doors and we need all the information we can get. Thanks for your efforts to support democratic nominations and elections. Your enthusiasm to get the info out led to a mistake but if the Association’s Chiefs were more enthused about communication perhaps it would not have happened.
Editor’s note: If the nomination meeting was not going to be held on the 16th – then why did the Association ask the Holiday Inn to put a hold on their space for the 16th? The Association bears some responsibility for the confusion.