Voice New Westminster is pleased to announce that New Westminster School Trustee, Lisa Graham, has joined Voice New Westminster and that she will be part of the Voice slate of candidates seeking election to the New Westminster school board on November 15th.
Graham says she's had an interesting vantage point on New Westminster politics over the last two terms on the school board and this vantage point made it an easy decision to joinVoice New Westminster.
"Voice is a diverse group of very capable individuals who have an impressive track record of community service," Graham said. "Municipal politics is very different from provincial and federal politics; the ideal of municipal politics is the free vote, unencumbered by party-whips, party-lines, or special interests. That's the principle that should be reflected in all the decisions made at city hall and the school board."
Graham says Voice not only respects the principle of unencumbered "free-voting," it strongly endorses the principle. "Voice is a group that includes members of all political stripes, and members of no political stripes," Graham said. "I like that; it's cause for renewed optimism for New Westminster. This is a very good fit for me."
Voice New Westminster was formed nineteen months ago to support a broadly-based,non-partisan slate of candidates for mayor, council and school board. Voice will be announcing its complete slate of school board candidates very soon.
Voice director, Casey Cook , welcomed Lisa Graham to the electors organization by stating, " Lisa has shown extraordinary resolve in fighting, often single-handedly, to get issues out to the public and to education stakeholders. She has been a champion of the public's right to know. In that respect, she has set herself apart from other trustees. Voice has stated since it's inception that it endorses the principle of transparency in the decision making process."
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Well done Vioce. Well done Lisa Graham.It is clear from Mr Ewen's comments in the paper that he simply cannot understand the concept of an electors' organization. To him life is all about control, power, intimidation, paternalism, bullying, marginalizing, self-interest, special interest, nepotism, cronyism, conflict of interest and ideological claptrap.
He does not understand the concept of community and putting children first.
The winds of change are in the air.
Lisa Graham should be re-elected as she is the Trustee that I trust to do what is best for the District.
Attending meetings or volunteering for a School fund raiser, she has always been available for the students and parents over the years that I have know her.
We are very fortunate to have Lisa Graham running with Voice New Westminster. She has set herself apart from an opposing status quo power clique, by being exceptionally motivated, energetic and resourceful in her proven sincere commitment to the needs of parents, teachers, students and taxpayers. Unlike some others, Lisa is a most exemplary elected official who actually listens to ALL people,—parents, students, teachers, tax payers—who come to her with their concerns, ideas and problems. They have found her to be an active, understanding and sympathetic listener with the rare ability to see problems and issues clearly from different perspectives. Moreover, Lisa has shown extraordinary courage in standing up for what is urgently needed and opposing senseless waste, incompetence and inefficiency. She has resolutely opposed tossing good money into the “chasm that lies between what is promised and what is delivered,” as Martin Cruz Smith so aptly put it. The people and Voice New Westminster are looking forward to more years of exemplary service and strong representation by Lisa Graham.
–-Terry Hilmar,
New Westminster
“Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” --Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." --Martin Luther King, Jr.
Come on now... folks. The Non Partisan Association is a political party with a board of directors and full slate of candidates for all elected positions in Vancouver. Yet, Voice is modelled on this exact formula but allegedly is "not" a political party!!! Come on now, come clean. The only thing that maybe non partisan is the fact that Voice has tapped into the NDP in New Westminster, but not the New Democratic Party... Nope.
The NEGATIVE DESTRUCTIVE AND PESSIMISTIC part. And for that, you can have it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Voice New Westminster is a registered ELECTOR'S ORGANIZATION.
An elector's organization promotes candidates.
A political party promotes ideology.
The formation of Voice New Westminster came about because of a grass-roots, all-partisan disgust with many of the negative issues affecting our school district and our city.
If "anonymous" wishes to turn a blind eye to the many serious and destructive "events" and the absolute waste of taxpayer dollars committed by the current administration, they are welcome to do so, but it defies logic.
It's time for change. New Westminster citizens deserve better and that is what Voice is offering.
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