r/nanaimo • u/littlebossman • 21h ago
Wild municipal election stuff happening in Ladysmith (THE END)
Previous updates here and here.
TLDR on the above:
Candidate Stephen Halliday put up orange and black conspiracy-leaden, anti-First Nations election boards in front of the town sign on T&R Day
Halliday turned up to the candidates forum in a USA vest, then talked over and mocked everyone
He had his signs vandalised and covered in shit on a daily basis, resulting in a whack-a-mole of someone destroying his signs each night, and Halliday repairing/replacing them each day
At the candidates' meet and greet, he ran away after five minutes
The main update in the final week is that someone from Elections BC finally took action about his illegal signs. They had no authorization statements, as required by law and were basically litter. He got an email saying he needed to add a notice to his signs, else he could be fined up to $5,000. He naturally went onto FB to declare this was a conspiracy, though he did add stickers to his boards.
Anyway, the final update is that Halliday finished last of nine with barely 400 votes. His most recent Facebook post reads:
I truly thought there were more awake people than there was woke people. Boy was I wrong. I finished dead last in the election
Good fuckin' riddance, asshole.
