B.C. Liberals in the Cariboo-Chilcotin gathered in Williams Lake last month for their annual general meeting.
Cariboo-Chil-cotin BC Liberal Constituency Associa-tion president Bill Carruthers says 22 people attended the meeting, including the nine executive, most of whom were reinstalled by acclamation.
Carruthers is now serving in his third year as president of the local riding group, and explains a big part of the meeting was selecting the delegates who will go to the BC Liberal Party Convention in Whistler, Oct. 25-27.
“Some [other] people actually wrote to us and said they couldn’t attend the meeting, but they would like to be considered as delegates. There will be 12 people from this constituency going to the convention.”
Aside from the usual board elections, business and financial statement reviews, he says discussions centred on current political movement.
“There was the typical interest in what’s going on with the other parties – any good ‘gossip’ on what anyone else is doing. Of course, around here we’re interested in seeing where the BC Conservatives are going [in preparing for the election].”
The candidacy of Liberal Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett will be determined along with all the other provincial candidates later this year, he notes, likely in November.
That’s because all must be nominated as a candidate, but no one has stepped up to oppose Barnett in her position at this point, he says, adding he neither expects nor rules out that possibility.
The constituency association’s membership is currently 1,390 members, and he notes that grew the most significantly when Barnett was up against Scott Nelson in 2010 in a bid to lead the riding through the last election.
The executive meets four times each year, but more frequently leading up to an election year.
Carruthers adds his group welcomes new members, and attempts to keep both the executives’ home base and the meeting locations evenly split between the South and Central Cariboo, with last year’s annual general meeting was being held in 100 Mile.
