Ex-mayoral candidate once faced assault, DUI charges Jyotika. A mayoral candidate who withdrew from the race last week once faced charges for assault and impaired driving.  Ian Campbell, who had been running for mayor under the Vision Vancouver banner, was charged with assaulting a woman in February 2010. The charge was stayed in May of the same year, court documents show.

Campbell was also charged with impaired driving after being pulled over in West Vancouver in December 2006. Campbell pleaded not guilty as charged, but guilty of the lesser offence of driving without due care and attention. He was fined $500 and a victim surcharge of $75.

He was also given a three-month driving ban. Campbell had been in the running for the city’s top job when he dropped on September 10^th, leaving the party without a candidate for mayor. Vision announced on the deadline for nominations, that it would not be fielding another candidate but instead would likely back one of the two independent candidates in the crowded race.

At the time of Campbell’s announcement, he did not provide a specific reason for his withdrawal, saying only that he’d “reflected on the political landscape and his complicated personal journey” before making what he called a difficult decision.