Dear Editor:
In New Westminster we have two exceptional candidates running for the office of mayor.
Wayne Wright has been mayor for the last four terms. What he has accomplished during that time has greatly benefited New Westminster.
Jonathan Cote has been a very effective councillor for the last nine years. They have worked well together in council in the past, but now they both want the same job.
It seems to me obvious that their competing campaigns provide an opportunity for a candidate with an agenda less beneficial for New Westminster to take advantage of a split vote and win the mayor's seat.
This is not a result I favour.
I urge Mayor Wright to withdraw from the mayoralty race and put his support behind Jonathan Cote. I believe this generous gesture would make a great difference in keeping New Westminster's council moving in the positive direction that it has been over the last 12 years.
Andrew Phillips, New Westminster
