REASON 687 WHY KIM RICHTER COULD NEVER BECOME MAYOR Recently Township Councillor Kim Richter's PR machine posted an article that slammed the Provincial Government for what they inaccurately termed free Olympic tickets for BC Liberal MLAs. Of course everyone in the know is aware that over 80 social events will take place during the Games where ministers will work as hosts to international business people. After all, when the world is on your doorstep why note try to lure big business to consider the Greater Vancouver area as a new base for operations?
Local MLA Mary Polak has already told a recent Town Hall Meeting held in the City of Langley last Saturday that she is working over 50 non-sporting events as host and therefore she will not be getting any Games tickets for sporting events. They are reserved for colleagues that are working as hosts at sporting events, as well as visiting dignitaries (Heads of State, etc.) that pop in. The insiders know that Mary Polak was offered free tickets to Olympic events by a large corporation that bought many event tickets. MLA Polak politely refused the tickets because of optics and knowing full well that there will be community whiners that would verbally assault her for doing so, we are sure.
But the hypocrisy of the Kim Richter's PR engine is simply amazing! Richter and her significant other have attended hockey games at least twice at the Langley Events Centre using free tickets obtained through the Corporation of Langley. In at least one instance, Richter received additional free tickets for her former slate friend and others. All in the very same Langley Events Centre...a community asset that she has spoken and voted against time after time in Council. Hypocrisy!
The height of hypocracy came just one week after her PR blog post about the Olympic tickets when Councillor Kim Richter and her significant other attended a Vancouver Giants games on the corporate bubble.
Now it would be OK for extra tickets to be distributed to Council and others. Maybe even to the many volunteers that serve this community? But to throw stones at the provincial government on one side of your mouth and then take free tickets for you and your family members on the other side is the same hypocrisy that Richter often accuses others of. Glass houses are popping up in central Langley. Yet another reason why Kim Richter could never be mayor of the Township of Langley.