The big ogre is out to get the little elf: A longtime Langford business, Little Elf, gets a threatening phone call for publicly supporting challengers to incumbent Langford Councillors
Posted by Cheryl McLachlan on November 14, 2008
A longtime small Langford business broke the myth that business owners always back the incumbents, who serve on a council often marketed as business and development friendly, by publicly putting up signs for the Langford Team of Steven Hurdle, Michael Mortimore, Herman Surkis, and Vern Trew as well as Ryan Hinton. Now it seems the big ogre is out to get the little elf for straying too far into the dark woods of politics. Lynne Hedstrom-McAuley, owner of Lynne’s Little Elf Garden Centre, received a call that threatened to blacklist her landscape product business, and questioned how she could, “stab council in the back?” Not for any slight of hand or back room deal but for publicly and openly exercising her democratic right to have an opinion about who is on her municipal council. So, if the caller is to be believed, the rest of the landscape and plant buyers on mass will be boycotting Little Elf, in hopes of damaging her business. The question that comes to mind is this: is the ogre as big as it thinks it is, or is it all a lot of bluster? Does doing business in Langford really mean blind loyalty to the current mayor and council? I wonder how much the recent beautification plantings and landscape material planted in various spots around downtown Langford were purchased at Little Elf before the traitorous act of having an opinion on politics in Langford that was the wrong opinion? It is not like Langford businesses are not supposed to take sides. There are businesses in Langford displaying signs for the incumbents. The story of the threatening phonecall to Lynne of Little Elf made the front page of the electronic version of the Goldstream News Gazette.
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