Earlier, Public Eye reported the embattled Surrey Electors Team had hired high-profile Toronto-based political consultants to bail out their leaking campaign. But who's captaining the ship for the port-leaning Surrey Civic Coalition? Well, according to one of our astute readers, that would be none other than veteran New Democrat campaigner and Gibsons-resident Joanne McNevin, who recently managed Nicholas Simons successful election bid in Powell-River Sunshine Coast. Said Ms. McNevin, who has been doing electioneering work for the past 40-years, "I have never, ever been in your lovely little publication. I don't go in anybody's publications ever. The only time it ever happened to me was when I met (The Globe and Mail's) Jeffrey Simpson when he was about 22-years old. And he grew up to be a journalist. And he ended up writing some stuff. But never before or since." So we're breaking a trend. Ms. McNevin also confirmed Surrey-Panorama Ridge MLA Jagrup Brar's constituency assistant Neera Ritcey is also volunteering on the campaign in her off-time.