a few months ago Clark left politics for the good of her young child, or so she claimed.Everyone said" What a caring mother" So what's different now? new baby minder maybe

Does anyone actually beleive that being a Mayor is the same as being a MLA. First of all a Mayor's job is to stay in their own community where a MLA has to travel constantly to Victoria and as a Minister all over the province. Mayors travel a couple times a year, not a couple times a week. Maybe that would be the diffrence.

If "a Mayor's job is to stay in their own community" then Clark shouldn't even be considering the offer. After all, her community is Port Moody, not Vancouver. Don't tell me Vancouver's so bereft of talent that we have to import mayoralty candidates from Port Moody!

I Support Christy Clark for Mayor of Vancouver. I think Christy will bring order to the City and Restoring it to a Centre Enviroment.

Go Christy!!!

Probably not a wise idea politically.

Parachute candidates from outside the city, who have no connection to the city, are not particularly received very well by the electorate.

Christy's best bet would be her home stomping ground of Port Moody.

One only needs to look back at the NPA's mayorality candidate in 1982(?) - Surrey's Vander Zalm. Vancouver's own Harcourt won that one in a landslide.

I really do have to wonder about the viability of a Port Moody based candidate in the Vancouver Mayoralty race. Can anyone imagine a reverse scenario, a Vancouver resident running for Mayor of Port Moody? It makes me wonder if this isn't some kind of publicity scam designed by NPA HQ as a means of drumming up interest in the Sam Sullivan acclamation contest.

As for Mel's comments, all I can say is, "Oh for Christ's sake!" Is there any level at which excuses are finally considered to be in bad taste? Not in BC, apparently.

I think Christy thinking of being mayor is completely in line with her reasons to stop being a provincial cabinet minister. She would be able to go home every night to be a mom. She wouldn't have to work in another city. She could be there on weekends for her child. Is there any level at which someone can put being a parent first without being attacked by armchair political quarterbacks?

Jen, Christy would not be working in the same city, she would be commuting from Port Moody to Vancouver. Harrumpf!

Why, she would be one of those dreaded outsiders driving into the city everyday, thereby violating Vancouver's Transport Plan which emphasizes walking and biking. If she brings her hubby with her, Liberal Master-Fixer Mark Marissen, at least it won't be a horrible SOV SUV but rather an HOV SUV, but what the Hell!

Perhaps you were making a roundabout argument for amalgamation of the type Ontario Premier Mike Harris imposed on Toronto. If so, please just come out and say so, and I will be happy to echo your sentiments!

In the meantime, it's not really politically viable for non-residents to run for political office in most Lower Mainland municipalities. I cannot think off-hand of a single instance of someone being elected even to council, let alone Mayor, who was not a resident of that municipality. That's why I think this whole Christy boomlet was cooked up by NPA HQ as a publicity stunt to breathe some excitement into the Sam Sullivan acclamation exercise.

As for the parent thing, please. She used that excuse to get out of a provincial cabinet situation that was no longer meeting her career needs in the ambition department. She had been visibly demoted. The job of Mayor of Vancouver would not involve any less hours of work per week than being a BC Cabinet Minister. The impact on her ability to be a parent would be roughly equivalent, the difference in commuting times being largely a case of the last additional 5 or 10 hours in what would be a base level of 70 or more hours a week.

One thing positive about Christy, she'll keep kicking the shit out of the Bus Riders' Union at Translink meetings. I fully endorse this and we need someone to do that now that Larry's leaving.

Budd, you really are one of the reasons why women have trouble getting ahead in politics. You clearly don't understand the stresses placed on women in politics, as evidenced by your attacks on Clark. You should change your attitude. Attacking her for wanting to be with her son is shameful. Sure, the mayor might work as long as a cabinet minister/Deputy Premier, but the difference (you know, the one you refuse to acknowledge) is that she gets to go home at night to her son instead of a hotel room in Victoria or Prince George or Kamloops or Terrace or Dawson Creek or Cranbrook or Port Hardy or...