Mayor is an NDP member

NSN Article  http://www.nsnews.com/news/Mulcair+gets+City+North+Vancouver+endorsement/5858000/story.html

During his first campaign for Mayor, Mussatto answered the NSN grid "List any political party membership(s)" as "Yes." and in 2011 he did not answer and the NSN put "No answer provided".


Those on the inside baseball field all know that Mayor Mussatto is an NDPer as is all the unofficial slate candidates in Vision North Van. The grid in the NSN and the Outlook is one of the primary methods our citizens use to learn about the candidates during the election and most of our disengaged voters are not following the details   So why this omission?


In our Mayor's defense, this question should be removed as it misleads the public.  As the grid shows I am a member of the Conservative Party and my friends fall on both sides of the divide of their opinions on municipal business.  Some want more development as they are business focused people and some want restraints on development.


There is no right wing and left wing in municipal politics, here it is the NDP Councillors who are funded by the developers and business community as they tend to favour higher development and Liberal and Conservative ones who tend to want less development.


The two local papers would be serving the community better by spending more time designing a better grid that focuses on development issues as that is mostly what Councillors end up doing.






PS to Ben Alldritt - When you join the NDP you join both the provincial and federal.  Calling the Mayor a federal member appears like he is not a provincial member.