Regarding the NPA mayoral race between Mayor Sam Sullivan and Coun. Peter Ladner, Marty Zlotnik told the Straight he’s not choosing favourites.

“I think they are both okay,” Zlotnik, a one-term NPA park-board commissioner, said by phone on May 8. “I am not going to get into it. I am not supporting anybody, and I think the person who gets the most amount of people to vote for them wins [the mayoral nomination].”

Although the Straight pointed out that fellow NPA commissioners Ian Robertson and Heather Holden have already come out publicly in support of Ladner, while NPA board chair Korina Houghton remains the only NPA commissioner to support Sullivan’s bid for reelection, Zlotnik was still cautious.

“I like Peter and I like Sam,” Zlotnik added. “There are parts of what goes on that I don’t like, but that would be the same with everybody. So I don’t think there is any purpose in me deciding or making a statement on it, because whoever wins the nomination is someone I have to work with. So why am I going to alienate anybody? I am only one vote, and my endorsement would mean nothing.”

Zlotnik added that the next election is an “important” election and that the initiatives his party is bringing forward “on housing, on pushing to get some treatment centres” are positive. Zlotnik said he will not run for a city council nomination this summer but will wait until September to decide whether he will run for reelection to the park board.