Voters not impressed with Jim Pattison’s appointment
Posted March 9, 2015 9:02 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – We’d heard it anecdotally, and now there are numbers backing it up.
The “yes” camp doesn’t appear to be getting much of a bounce from bringing in a billIonaire businessman to oversee any funds raised.
The latest poll numbers find Jim Pattison isn’t exactly selling people on the congestion improvement tax. His appointment to the Public Accountability Committee has actually had exactly the opposite effect for lots of people who have already decided they’re going to vote “no.”
Nearly a quarter of people in that category say having Pattison in that role makes them even more likely to vote against the tax, according to Insights West.
“We don’t see a lot of movement — we only see roughly three per cent of ‘no’ voters who say that this makes them more likely to vote ‘yes,’ so it’s not going to be as big as they expected,” says Mario Canseco with the pollster.
“If we had a situation where, let’s say, half of them are saying ‘Maybe I’ll vote yes,’ then you could argue that it is going to be something that is detrimental for the ‘no’ side. But when you only have less than one in 20 people saying that they are thinking of changing their mind, it’s really not going to have much of an impact.”
Pattison won’t be paid for the position. He will be one of several people on the committee.
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