For a first time of throwing her hat to run in a provincial election and receiving 26.06 per cent of the votes, Cariboo-Chilcotin NDP candidate Sally Watson said she felt she did “great.”
“I had a wonderful group of volunteers that I worked with,” Watson told the Tribune from her home in 70 Mile House Thursday. “It would have been nice to win, but now we work on different things in the Cariboo-Chilcotin to be back in four years.”
Throughout the campaign, Watson did not find “a lot” of surprises, she added.
“Some people are deeply entrenched in what they believe in,” Watson said. “The rhetoric about ‘we can’t go back to the 90s’ is one thing but for some people the 90s were pretty good. The 2000s weren’t that great.”
Continuing with politics Watson said she would rather promote a positive message than a negative message, and have answers rather than rhetoric.
When asked who she thinks will form government once the final votes are tallied, Watson said she could not even guess.
“I have never bet on horse races, but I did not throw away my signs” she added. “This is a real cliff hanger.”
The NDP’s gaining more seats in B.C. signifies people are ready for a change, Watson said.
“The fear mongering about jobs is always going to be there and I know people whose bosses implied they would lose their jobs if they voted NDP because the minimum wage would go up.”