Murray Weisenberger

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Candidate Highlights: 

• Regional Planning
• Electoral Reform

Murray Weisenberger has lived in the community for 38 years, first moving to Crescent Beach in 1971. He has resided in the same home since 1979. He is a self employed artisan woodworker and an organic blueberry farmer. He has been active in the Green Party of BC since 2002 and is on the GP Provincial Council.

Murray is well known as a vocal and prominent critic of urban sprawl and a supporter of regional planning Surrey. He ran for Mayor of Surrey as an Independent in 1999, 2002, and as an Independent/Green in 2008.

He is a member of Surrey Environmental Partners and the Surrey/White Rock Pesticide Free Coalition. He petitioned in the streets to try to stop the Campbell Heights Industrial Area from being approved in 2002. He has spoken on many issues at Public Hearings and forums in the community.

He believes in Electoral Reform. He is a strong supporter of Yes to BC-STV referendum. He also supports electoral reform both at the Federal level and in Surrey, where he supports a modified Neighbourhood Constituency [ Ward ] system of electing Council and term limits for Mayor and Council.

If you elect Murray, he will be a strong and forceful voice for his community, city, region and province.