Pretenders to the throne

Win or lose, party members confirm this will be the last time Victoria Liberal cabinet minister David Anderson runs his embalmed political corpse in an election campaign. And tongues are already wagging about who'll replace him. The list of potentials reportedly includes Minister Anderson's campaign manager and executive assistant Lynne Henderson, Victoria mayor Alan Lowe (also known as Monday Magazine columnist Russ Francis' plaything), former British Columbia Ombudsman and aborted Saanich-Gulf Islands parachture candidate Dulcie McCallum, party bagman and 1988 Victoria candidate Michael O'Connor (a lawyer with McConnan Bion O'Connor & Peterson Law Corp.), Victoria-Hillside MLA Sheila Orr's husband John and Saanich-Gulf Islands candidate and drug prosecution contract winner David Mulroney (whom we have very much enjoyed reporting on).