[GREN-Exec] FW: Endorsements

[John Jackson]

FYI from our discussion the other evening. Please do not send elsewhere.

John

-- 
John Jackson
17 Major Street
Kitchener, Ontario N2H 4R1
519-744-7503


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From: Marc Xuereb <1883marc at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:59:01 -0400
To: John Jackson <jjackson at web.ca>
Subject: Re: Endorsements

Many people were surprised by one decision or another of the Better Choices
Executive, John.

I don't think anyone can legitimately accuse us of pandering to a narrow
agenda. We picked some people who are strong on labour and weak on
environmental issues, some the reverse, some Liberals, NDPers, and even a
Conservative or two.

Our process was transparent, and the people making the decisions were (I
think) a good cross-section of interests.

We had to weight input from many people, which of course often contained
contradictory advice. We don't intend to name the people who applied for our
endorsement and didn't get it, because we don't want to criticize those
people for being unworthy in some way. But there were cases where we had
only one person apply and turned that person down because we didn't feel the
candidate had enough of the commitments and characteristics we were looking
for.

Marc

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:50 PM, John Jackson <jjackson at web.ca> wrote:
> Marc
> 
> I was surprised that no one was endorsed for Kitchener Ward 4. I remember that
> Yvonne F was on the list you sent me of who had asked for endorsements. I
> supported Yvonne¹s endorsement for Yvonne. I can understand if there was
> someone in that ward who you think would be a better candidate, but was
> surprised that no one from that ward was endorsed.
> 
> John
> 
> -- 
> John Jackson
> 17 Major Street
> Kitchener, Ontario N2H 4R1
> 519-744-7503 <tel:519-744-7503>
> 



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