FELGER TAKING PEACE PIPE PITCH TO TONIGHT'S FORUM

Tim Felger said running for political office is a brutal business and
doesn't envy anyone in the job - citing scars from past elections -
but doesn't think he has a choice in pursuing it.

"I was attacked pretty seriously, and there were threats on my life
[in my last campaign], so people are really at me."

"Some of the Christian Taliban, as I call them, were really at me.
It's very discouraging to do this, I don't wish this on anybody."

Felger has been running for office for years, and said his "peace
pipe" campaign came about partially because he still had signage from
a previous municipal run.

He called it his "campaign in a box."

"It is funny, and it is still relevant . . . it is still time to
smoke the peace pipe and move on to bigger problems that we have in B.C."

With no real pressure on his free time, and his financial situation
taken care of thanks to a history of savvy business dealings, Felger
said he is still committed to getting the word about legalizing
marijuana out to the public.

Felger will be joined tonight at an all-candidates' meeting for
Abbotsford South by NDP candidate Bonnie Rai, Liberal incumbent John
van Dongen, Gurcharan Dhaliwal from the B.C. Conservatives and Green
Party frontman Daniel Bryce at Matsqui Centennial Auditorium.

The 2*-hour forum gets underway at 7 p.m.