SURREY Councillor Jack Hundial on Tuesday announced that he will be running in the municipal election – not from Surrey, but from Penticton.
He posted on his Facebook page: “Its official, I signed my Nomination today, running for Penticton Council.”
That has shocked Surrey-ites who are questioning his sincerity and commitment — and transparency.
Just two weeks ago, on August 16, Hundial, quite apparently realizing that he didn’t have any chance of being re-elected in Surrey, announced he was dropping out as a Council candidate from that city.
He later told a local newspaper that he had been planning to quit Surrey for some time — and that stunned Surrey-ites who thought Surrey Connect and its councillors Hundial and Brenda Locke were transparent people. Yet, they kept this a closely guarded secret, fooling Surrey-ites.
Hundial even posted the following on his Facebook page: “I will be transitioning from my role as a candidate to one of continuing to be a director in Surrey Connect and to assist with the transition from within the city after the next election.”
So will he be now doing that from Penticton?
Even Locke’s campaign manager John Cameron quit some weeks ago. He told the VOICE he was “working for another campaign in a different municipality” now.
Surrey-ites are mocking Hundial and Locke – and wondering about their commitment to ‘keep the RCMP in Surrey.’
With Hundial being a former RCMP officer himself, they feel they could not really rely on him anyway.
No commitment!
As The VOICE, which has repeatedly exposed Hundial and Locke, noted two weeks ago: “The two got elected by using McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition and then became puppets of the RCMP and started trying to derail the transition to a municipal police force. This was in spite of the fact that they won on Safe Surrey Coalition’s promise to replace the RCMP in Surrey and to build a Surrey Langley SkyTrain.”
So now Surrey-ites are asking Penticton-ites: “Can you really trust Hundial?”
And they are asking themselves: “Can we really trust Surrey Connect?”
