Hey voters, cross Spencer Chandra Herbert off your list as a potential candidate to replace Mayor Gregor Robertson.
The NDP MLA for Vancouver-West End posted on his Facebook page Monday that he will not run for mayor in this October’s municipal election.
“I ran to be the MLA for my neighbours in the West End and Coal Harbour because I wanted to change our province for the better,” Chandra Herbert wrote. “I have so much that I want to get done for you, the community that elected me as your MLA in our new government that I realized I can't stop now. I also know I cannot and will not give up the precious time I have with my son, and husband to run for mayor. It's just too important. Walking through the park holding my son as he cooed at the birds it just hit me,’ I can't leave this.’”
He continued to say that with the NDP now in power in Victoria, “I can and am making changes now with our new government that my neighbours have dreamed about for years, and don't need to run for mayor to do that.” He said he was “incredibly humbled” by those people who encouraged him to seek the mayor’s chair.
The mayor’s seat will be vacant because Robertson is not seeking a fourth term.
