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Letters: YES campaign manager vents frustration with NO side, media

Finally, just ask the NO group to do the public a favour: Be honest, stop distorting the factsÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥”stick to the truth.

To the editor:

The newspapers have provided equal opportunities for both sides of the West Kelowna referendum debate to submit material related to their views on the Sept. 17 vote.

Admittedly the responsibilities for factual information rest with the authors while the paper remains neutral. However, there appears to be no real investigative reporting that tries to clarify some of the blatant unanswered questions that the group opposing the referendum cannot face: Questions that their own printed articles pose. Yet they seem to avoid answering even when asked directly.

Perhaps voters, plus reporters, should be aware of pertinent questions and:

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Ask why a 2.6% fixed interest is not a good investment as a government backed mortgage?

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Ask how have they arrived at a cost that the city hall can be built for less?

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Ask them to explain how a simple three story wood frame building is a Taj Mahal?

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Ask who among them has such financial expertise to accuse the city figures as being wrong?

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Ask them if they actually followed and participated in the history of our becoming a city?

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Ask when is the right time to build since they say it is not time to build a city hall?

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Ask them to explain their city centre location if Elliot is not city centre ?

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Ask them to identify  the city-owned property that can accommodate city hall with parking?

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Ask if anyone within the group is a financial investor that would say this is a bad investment?

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥¢    Finally just ask the NO group to  do the public a favour: Be honest, stop distorting the facts, stick to the truth.

Broc Braconnier,

campaign manager, Yes4CivicCentreCommittee,

City of West Kelowna



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