Funny that nobody is really stepping up to the plate to run for VV. My prediction: they split the left wing vote badly allowing NDP to pick up the mayor's chair and 5 of 1o council spots. My other prediction: only 2 VV candidates elected to council. Even fewer if the Monctons run the campaign.

Yes I figure Not a fan sure isn't a fan. I'm a fan of Jim Green having lived as a tenant ( market rent tenant) in the Four Sister's. Jim worked like a dog to make that place work. He worked just as hard at the bank set up so poor folks with a lousy address could stash their money somewhere other than their pocket. Sure cut down on the bloody alleys on Welfare Wednesday. The Woodwards building comes to mind and the hotel converted to living space for folks as well.

Do you figure the NPA doesn't take a look at potential candidates? well maybe they didn't look at their previous candidate for mayor who was swept aside by the present mayor.

I don't live in Vancouver anymore but if I did Jim would be my choice and if I was a betting person I'd say Not a fan will be well off the mark in his prediction.

i agree with the last poster (who i sort of suspect is actually jim green himself). i don't know why the left is on the anti-jim bandwagon right now. yes, the classics rule, yes, it sucks that they couldn't get it together, but jim should be elected mayor, that's for sure.

Why hasn't Jim Green returned money to the folks who donated money to re-elect Larry Campbell as mayor? Where did the money go?

Why is Jim Green secretly appointing people to the diVISION Vancouver slate, rather than allowing grassroots members to elect candidates?

My predicition is that the Poverty Pimp and his diVISION Vancouver slate will fail miserably in November.

Jim Green is a one issue politician "The downtown east side" who spends his time travelling on the tax payers of Vancouver's dime.
His claim to fame is bringing entertainment to council meetings, Beyond the usual comedy

Jim Green is a one issue 'Woodwards' guy, who did little while on council. Is milk toast approach to RAV (which has now increased in cost by $400 million or a FastFerry fiasco) has alienated him with COPE Classic types.

As for the election Cope Classic and the NPA splitting council, with Sam Sullivan as a 1 term wonder mayor, until his support for RAV will be his political doom.

Don't believe me? Wait til they tear up Cambie St. fo RAV? Whom the gods want to destroy, they drive mad first.

Hey "Gotcha" I sure am not Jim Green but I respect the guy for reasons I mentioned.There have been a few real activists downtown who don't spend their time bitching about the ones who get things done. So let's now complain that Vision Vancouver has stopped trying to work with the COPE management. Who win's? Well the left of center sure won't.

I do believe Senator Larry explained quite well where the funds collected were ending up.

Some other person said Green was a one issue candidate which I find especially strange with the very high numbers he collected running against" The Kid" Gordo for mayor a number of years ago.

Let's all decide what we really want. A bitch session by bloggers or folks who want things to get better all around the great city in which you live. The NPA must be slobbering on their shoes in the hopes they can regain the city and run things the way their supporters mostly on the westside like things to be run.

Each time we go to the city we wonder just how badly the downtown east side could get,as drug deals got more obvious and more stores closed their doors. we will always have some poor in our society, but let's not smear the folks who work to make things just a bit better for them .
What was the comment about secret selecting of candidates. What a revelation. How many of the New Era gang MLA's were hand picked by Gordo. Oh that would never happen only the left of center would do that. BS.
I look forward to the city elections in the fall

If Jim Green is such a man of the people, you'd think his slate would be a bit more democratic. Appointed candidates? Sounds like the political equivalent of the Vancouver Club.

Vision Vancouver is in for a big surprise if they think that they'll get the mayor's chair or any councillors elected. How are they going to do it without the voter base of COPE? Not to mention that they have no organization except the young Vancouver Moncton crowd, and it's pretty much agreed that they grate on everyone's nerves.

Senator Larry Campbell will not have to worry about the conflict between the needs of the Canadian economy and Vancouver City's traditional opposition to all freeway, highway and bridge development.

The Gateway project promised a head on collision between Vancouver and Burnaby City Halls on the one hand, and the BC Govt and the Rest of Canada on the other. By moving to Ottawa, Larry doesn't have to lead Gordon Price's anti-freeway disciples into battle. That happy task now falls to the hapless Derek Corrigan.

Jim Green can get out of that role by simply saying that for now the Grandview Cut route has been devoted to transit and bike/pedestrian traffic, and if there's going to be a highway in the City there will need to be provincial and federal money for it, it will have to go along some existing roadway since there are no other rights of way left, and that residential properties alongside at least one side of that right of way will have to be expropriated in their entirety, as opposed to be trimmed down to an unlivable residual. As for twinning the Port Mann Bridge, and widening Hwy 1 to eight lanes, that was promised by the former NDP Govt in 1995, and neither Vancouver nor Burnaby issued any objections at that time.

hmmmm, well the election should be interesting....

He is NOT a one issue candidate as someone in the previous posts stated, are showing their ignorance. He supported the 2010 Olympic bid(think of the traffic nightmare)which I wasn't interested in getting.

As for Cambie Street being torn up...GET OVER IT!

I've lived in the east side by Commercial drive my whole life and we've had many unwanted project jammed down our throats(I hear westsiders gasping in shock and disbelief)over the years. Like that pink monstrosity on the corner of Broadway and Nanaimo that they now use as an example of poor planning(f*** the planner that let it go thru in the first place)

Jim lives and breaths all the conflicts of this city. Maybe the unFans are too busy posing like real Vancouverites to notice.

Give a politician their due even I respect the Gordo the porko(smart team behind him)

The problem a lot of us have with Jim Green is that he is uncomfortable to be part of a democratic process and stand for candidate election by COPE, he formed his own group and proclaimed himself emporer in waiting. He may have to wait for a while, since Christy is not running, some of us may not bother to go vote for jim Green or anyone else. Sullivan is innocuous. Jim Green is anti-democratic (at least as far as part of the left is concerned.
Regards,
Erling