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Mayoral race a real squea er
Pickering voting critics �i��e Wavne's World sequel one thumb up
Wayne Arthurs is congratulated by a jubilant sial tally, to be finalized Thursday, had Mr.
supporter after being reelected Pickering mayor Arthurs 127 votes ahead of Kip Van Kempen.
by a narrow margin Monday night. The unoffi- photo by Ron Pietroniro
More election coverage inside today's News Advertiser
♦ CRIME
Death threat against MP
❑ McTeague `won't be bullied'
against urging tougher gun laws
By MARIANNE TAKACS
STS tErMER
AJAX-PICKERING — Ontario Riding MP Dan
McTeague was assigned full-time RCMP protection
recently after he received a death threat over his
eadotrsemen- of new, tougher gun control laws.
Tie threat was recorded on the answering machine
in his Ajax constituency office around midnight Sept.
23.
"You want a tape my guns away, you motber
—," said a male who left a message on the machine.
"You're goddamn toast `cause you'D never get any-
thing. You're f history, boy."
In his minute -long message, the
�N�IIr► caller then said something like "I've
got a bullet with your name on it —
I know where you live, I know
where your office is," recalls Mr.
McTeague.
The RCMP assigned an officer to
protect the MP immediately the neat
Dan UCTagua day after the recording was discov-
ered in the morning, on the basis that
it sounded like a serious death threat. Mr. McTeague
said he asked for the special protection to end when
the situation was reviewed about three weeks later.
"I've tried to put this out of my mind," he says.
"I'm not going to be bullied by someone's idle
threat."
-See MP ... Page A9
❑ Arthurs barely hangs on to Pickering
mayor's job, nipping Kip Van Kempen
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PICKERING — It was not the
kind of mandate he was hoping
for. but Wayne Arthurs is back in
the mayor's chair for a third term.
The incumtxxnt mayor and for-
mer school
civic teacher came
within a
VOTE whisker of
being defeated
X Monday. He
spent the
whole night
trading the lead with his main
challenger, Kip Van Kempen,
before finally getting a grip on it
around 10:15 p.m. with only four
of 144 Ix)lls left to report.
The final, unofficial tally was
7,964 votes for Mr. Arthurs to
7,731 for Mr. Van Kempen — a
127-hallot margin. ( be number
will not be officially finalized
until Thursday.) Two other chal-
lengers, Eileen Higdon and
Richard Ward, were left in the
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MAYORALTY
Wayne Arthurs: 7,868 1
Kip Van Kempen: 7,741
Eileen Higdon: 1,K, ',S
Richard Ward: *kwy
dust, with 1,863 and 792 votes,
respectively. Both Mr. Van Kem-
pen and Ms. Higdon gave up
council seats to take a run at the
mayor's job.
Mr. Arthurs admitted the
evening had been "a little tense"
when he arrived at Town hall
around 10:30 p.m. after waiting
out the results at his campaign
headquarters. He attributed Mr.
Van Kempen's near -success to a i
no -holds -barred election strategy. f
"I think it was a very different
campaign we had to cum against
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