Mayor-elect Lyn Hall delivers victory speech Saturday night. Photo 250News

Prince George, B.C. – The mayor-elect of Prince George is a team guy who knows it will take a team commitment to get the city’s ship pointed in the right direction.

He also knows that it was a team effort that won him this election and in his victory speech Saturday night, Lyn Hall thanked every one of the people who toiled to make this “grassroots campaign” a success. “Before I go to the volunteers I need to thank one person that I went to the moment that I decided I was going to run. I went and talked to my campaign manager Michelle Marrelli. We have a long history, we’ve known each other before we got into politics on the school board. She is a tenacious, tenacious campaigner. She drilled a team very, very hard, but in the right direction. We really gelled.”

Hall also said “we decided early on that we need to connect with students and we did that by utilizing the two young ladies on either side of me (his daughters Jordan and Sydney) and all of their friends and connections. We were looking at the campaign not just from our perspective but from their perspective and thought that if we could draw them into the campaign it would mean not only that we would get more voters out but also their support.”

Hall says “we had a campaign that was structured around leadership style and reconnection to the community. There’s other important issues that the new could is going to have to deal with, infrastructure issues, we know the challenges ahead of us. But for me it was leadership, a different style, an inclusionary model. I promised it during the campaign and had a guy phone me last night at eleven o’clock and he said you guy make a lot of promises, what about Sunday morning? And I guaranteed him that the minute I was sworn in I’d see him the next day, I’d meet with him. And I told him that what I talked about during the campaign is exactly what I’m going to do when I’m sworn in, so there’s that commitment and it’s not going to change, at all.”

Hall says his team knew it was going to have to work hard to get the vote out and says volunteers worked the phones relentlessly from morning till night. “We made 34-thousand phone calls, and that was key to this. It generated interest and I’m going to take some advice and take some credit for what I think that caused in our community. That caused out community to get out and vote.” He also said “when I first started to talk about this I had a group of guys that stepped forward and I’m just absolutely humbled by the work they did and commitment they made to this campaign, and I need to thank the firefighters.”

Hall said “I just wanted to thank all of you. This, let’s not kid myself, this is really a dream come true. I’ve wanted this, wanted to be able to work for you and work with council. I think we are, we’re in a good spot. When we take a look at our campaign and our team and our volunteers, it was a true demographic of age, ethnicity and political stripes in this community and I think it shows the inclusiveness in this city. So I want to thank everybody that stepped up.”