Talk:Democratic Reform British Columbia

Reform BC

The following news release can be (as of January 19, 2005) found on the [www.reformbc.net Reform BC front page]:

MEDIA ADVISORY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Vancouver, BC, January 17, 2005

BC HAS A NEW POLITICAL PARTY

Tom Morino, Leader Democratic Reform BC; and Simon Moses, Leader All Nations Party of BC yesterday announced at a founding convention in White Rock that they have reached an agreement to unite the two parties under the name Democratic Reform British Columbia.

Shirley Abraham, President Reform BC; stepped down as party president, along with other board members, to join Democratic Reform British Columbia and Ron Gamble was elected president to replace her. Gerry Rehwald and Walter Hayden will remain on the Reform BC board. Gamble stated that Reform BC remains as a registered political party.

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For further information please call: Reform BC President: Ron Gamble (604) 980-7779

I e-mailed Mr. Gamble as I was unclear as to what was going on exactly... here is the email back and forth:

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:48:28 -0800 From: Ron Gamble <rongamble@shaw.ca> To: Jordan O Brien <jord@jord.ca> Subject: RE: From www.reformbc.net All headers

Mr. O Brian,

Four members of our board who were working to have the Democratic Party and All Nations Party come over to Reform BC did not materialize. Instead the Democratic Party, through Elections BC changed their name to Democratic Reform BC. The result of that had a profound effect in that Reform BC would not have been able to change its name to Democratic Reform BC as there was one already registered.

Although section 5.1 and 5.2, Article 2 and 3 are unalterable, the party name was not and could have been changed but no resolution was brought forward to our Annual General Meeting to do so.

Our bylaws do not permit membership in two provincial parties. As a result the four board members, who supported and joined the new party, could no longer belong to Reform BC. As to the rest of the Members of Reform BC it will be up to them to decide what party they want to join or support.

Reform BC at this moment is not ready, nor may be ready, to run candidates in this coming provincial election.

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From: Jordan O Brien [1] Sent: January 19, 2005 10:24 AM To: rongamble@shaw.ca Subject: From www.reformbc.net

Mr. Gamble:

I have a question about the current status of Reform BC.

>From what I have pieced together of have assumed the following:

At Reform's Jan. 15, 2005 AGM a vote was held to disband the party and join the new DRBC but this vote did not pass. As a result most of the executive left the party to join DRBC. Please let me know if that is correct.

What is very unclear, though, is do you and the new leadership of Reform BC intend to run candidates in the 2005 election? I am assuming by the positive news release re: DRBC on the Reform website that though a majority of Reform BC members support the DRBC - including yourself and the executive they elected Jan. 15 - there was not the 75% support required to amend the constitution?

Alternatively, I wonder if, perhaps, someone ruled that due to section 5.1 and 5.2 of your constitution stating that Sections 2 and 3 are unalterable it was ruled that, legally, Reform BC could not disband?

Could you please help me to shed some light on the above? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks, Jordan O'Brien

Just FYI, I think that clarifies at least what happened w.r.t. Reform BC, they thought they were going to be taking the lead on it and when they didn't they took their toys and went home. - Jord 21:12, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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To party members who may wish to edit the article: please see WP:COI regarding conflict-of-interest concerning members of organizations editing articles about those organizations. this is a general comment/warning being placed on all BC political party pages because of problems with some articles...If you are a member of this party you should not be editing this article!!.Skookum1 01:40, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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