Surrey Coun. Linda Annis is running for mayor because she says Mayor Brenda Locke and her city council majority wasted time and taxpayers’ money fighting over the police force that could have been better spent elsewhere.

A few dozen supporters joined Annis, the two-term Surrey First councillor, in a Surrey hotel ballroom Wednesday to where she shared her platform for a mayoral bid in fall 2026.

“The mayor and her councillors have wasted this four-year term focusing on just one single issue: the police transition. They have wasted time and millions of dollars, and they have put every other important issue on the back-burner,” Annis told the crowd. “(They) have shown us they can’t deal with more than one issue at a time. This has frustrated me every single day.”

Annis has been a frequent

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