Kash Heed speculation
Posted February 25, 2009 by Sacha Peter - Link
Category: BC Liberals
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West Vancouver’s top cop, Kash Heed, resigned unexpectedly yesterday, citing “personal reasons”. Some information on him can be found on Wikipedia (as usual, treat the information as “probable” but not authoritative).
An article from the North Shore Outlook on the situation can be found here.
He served for the West Vancouver police for less than two years. Speculation is rampant that he will be running as a candidate for the BC Liberals in the next election.
If so, Vancouver-Fraserview would be a logical spot, and Attorney General Wally Oppal can run in Delta South.
The political marketing is a lot easier with that arrangement – the BC Liberals can advertise Heed as the next Solicitor General (who would be a lot more charismatic than the current John van Dongen), while Oppal can defend his much-recently-attacked record as Attorney General in Delta South (his resident riding). It also mitigates a situation concerning the approach to how the BC Liberals may be able to defeat Vicki Huntington – the NDP will find it more difficult to directly attack Oppal on justice issues.
Of course, this speculation is completely moot if Heed has no interest in running politically this election.
(Thank you for BJ for bringing up this topic; I agree with your line of thinking on this topic).
Here are my thoughts –
http://battlegroundbc.com/2009/02/25/where-will-kash-heed-run-for-the-bc-liberals/
He will either take Dan Jarvis’ riding or Ralph Sultain. You can quote me on that. The Liberals will not waste him in Fraiserview against a strong NDP candidate
I am over 60 years of age and havae to the best of my knowledge always voted NDP. I would also like to continue to vote this way but the recent decisions made by Carol James has made me change my mind. If there are no other choices on the ballot, I will either refuse to vote, spoil my vote or vote for the Liverals.
I have no problem with women in politics but I object to the NO decision on our current ballot. In other words if I want to vote for the NDP I have no choice but to vote for a women, whether this person is any good or not. Why is it that if another party had made it WOMEN only on the ballot that there would be an outcry. I believe that we the people should have the right to chose our candidate. If the best person was a women, great. Under the current mandate we do not have the choice, do we.
Global News Hour Exclusive (Keith Baldrey):
Wally Oppal to run in Delta South;
Kash Heed to run in Vancouver-Fraserview;
To be officially announced next week.
I am so NOT shocked to hear this.