Gendron Wins By-Election

Saturday, January 13, 2007 09:14 PM

Denis L. Gendron has been elected Area A Director for the Regional District of Fraser Fort George.

He won the election tonight with an unofficial count of 160 votes to his opponent Leif Jensen's 139.

The by-election is the result of the resignation of Director Dee Burden. She stepped down in October, just days before pleading guilty to a charge she had defrauded the Royal Bank of more than 30 thousand of dollars.

Gendron will be sworn in Thursday the 18th, when the Regional District holds its regular monthly Board meeting.

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Posted on Saturday, January 13, 2007 09:14 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: metalman on January 15 2007 9:50 AM

He talks as though his focus will be in the area in which he lives. I hope that he will remember his district extends well beyond Eena lake.

But,what a poor turn out for the voters, 299 out of a possible 4,000, less than 1%!
No excuse but apathy. There were several polling stations, in my mind no one had any great distance to travel, could have and should have turned up to cast a vote. Shameful.
metalman.

Posted by: trusted on January 15 2007 12:17 PM

Yeah-so who really cares?
Soon the people will not bother going to the polls to vote-period.
Politicians of any stripe are certainly not put on a pedestal, but are viewed with skepticism and distrust.
Actually, it is far more difficult for them to lead us down the garden path.
Everything they say is taken with "a grain of salt."
Is it possible we have reached the point whereby we automatically do not like them?
We already know we do not trust them-so who in the bureaucracy do we like??
Good question!