April 2, 2009

Vote Smart BC Campaign Launches

New Television, Radio and Online Campaign

VANCOUVER, BC - The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association (ICBA) of BC today launched a new series of television and radio ads and a new phase for their online Vote Smart BC campaign by taking dead aim at the lack of change within the NDP and drawing clear links between the current NDP led by Carole James and the economically destructive NDP governments of the 1990s.

 “Carole James talks about a new, more moderate NDP, but she has surrounded herself with staff, MLAs and candidates who were the architects of the debacle in the nineties, and we will show that,” says ICBA President Philip Hochstein. The new ads compliment a new campaign on the Vote Smart BC website with the theme “All in the Family.”  

ICBA is taking a stand in the May 12th election campaign to prevent a return to the NDP that directly attacked independent, family-owned construction businesses with policies like union-only hiring, pension suspension legislation, and badly hurt the economy. Hochstein says that unlike the campaigns of COPE378 and other unions, the Vote Smart BC campaign will be fact-based and defensive in nature. 

Votesmartbc.com will point out the connections between today’s NDP and senior members of NDP administrations of the 1990s by profiling one senior NDP official every day. Hochstein calls this ‘the resume Carole James does not want people to see.’  

“We’re convinced that the more people get to know the real Carole James team, the less likely they will be to trust her with control of our province in these challenging economic times,” says Hochstein. “Carole James and the NDP are the wrong party and wrong leader at the wrong time.”

ICBA represents family owned construction businesses across British Columbia.

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