Good thing for the NPA that Sullivan won, because he's going to be the mayor. Christy Clark was the last thing the NPA needed, a candidate so polarizing that people would crawl across broken glass to vote against her. Now it looks as if Green will be the only divisive candidate. He has angered the COPE support-base and has nothing to show for it except a handfull of unaccomplished organizers, namely the Moncton/Ewald funky bunch. Does this bring you support? With their uppity attitudes, they will just drive more people away. Will traditional COPE'rs flock to the polls to support Green? VV isn't that appealing, merely style and not substance, and the NPA candidate Sullivan (unlike Christy Clark) won't drive COPE'rs into Green's arms.

I'm no fan of the NPA, but Green is going down. VV will be lucky to get two council seets with the poor organization they have. It's the same organization that disastrously runs affairs at NDP provincial office.

Dope makes some good points. CC forced VV and COPE to come together, but it's clearly not a happy marriage and things may get rocky again without her polarizing influence. I don't see Sam mobilizing the left to the extent that she did and he just may surprise everyone again.

Christy clark's mayoral nomination campaign was the worst campaign ever in the history of the world that wasn't run by a Moncktonite.

Who was the last Moncktonite to stack a nomination meeting with 1200 voters?

Raj Sihota that's who!

Actually, she stacked a meeting with more like 120 votes, and she didn't win, either. I said Christy's campaign was the worst ever that wasn't run by a Moncktonite and this implies that there were campaigns run by Moncktonites that were worse. It was a little Earth humour.

Worst run campaign ever???- 1200 votes all organized in approx 3 weeks. That impresses me.

Christy also turned the eyes of the media on the NPA. Remember 3 or 4 short weeks ago everyone was just assuming Jim Green would be the next Mayor. Now there is a real race.

If Sam becomes Vancouver next Mayor- and I am not sure he is the lesser of the two evils- he will have Christy to thank. She made him somebody.

Three weeks? Yeah right. As if this wasn't in the workd for months. Then again, maybe it was three weeks. Which says, at least to me, that Ms Clark is a flake.

Clarkintes: stop the spin, you're getting dizzy!

It was not in the works for months. It happened when she was recruited to run at the end of August. If she were planning it for months, she would have signed up 10,000 members, not just 2,300. She has a much wider network for sign-ups in Vancouver than the NPA does.

Then I guess Christy is either (a) a flake, or (b) a completely unabashed opportunist.

Because nobody seriously runs for mayor with less than a month's notice, in a city which they don't even live.

To the last poster, ha ha ha ha ha ha, your candidate lost. Time for you to get working on her Dog Catcher campaign. Looks like she'll need a huge network of sign-ups for that one!

9 to 1

NINE to ONE

Now that I've had the opportunity to size up the competition and their supporters, I can't see VV and COPE combining for any less than 9 seats.
It sure wouldn't surprise me to see Ladner not get the one seat I am conceding to him..so if that is the case and it winds up 10-0...I'll buy everybody a beer at the Jolly Alderman on E night.

Make that 2 beers..hell..make it a jug each.
Now there is great incentive for all you NPA lushes and piss tanks..don't bother to vote at all.
Just come on down to the JA (12th & Cambie) and leave room for the booze. I'll be the guy with the big smile and two buttons..9 to 1.. and..10 to 1.
If it ends up 9 to 1 ..you buy me a beer.
10 to 1 and everybody gets a ticket (redeemable at the bar) for a pitcher.

Make that 10-0

Whew I've got to ease up on the bud & brew..I've created another seat on council out of thin air and an overdose of glee and mirth.

You go SS and CC...long may you run and spin and crash and burn.

does that network of supporters include the Basi's?

CC should be grateful the NPA board gave her access to unlimited membership forms to make this a fair fight. Had they followed her husband's example with the Liberals, she would have been given limited forms and would have had zero chance of winning.

The real difference is not that Christy would have lost because she wouldn't have membership forms.

The difference is, with the Federal Liberal Party, Christy would have been appointed like Emerson or Dosanjh, and there would be no nomination.

Quite the opposite of what you are suggesting, voter.

Is Marissen related to Monckton? Same amount of whining in any case, except that the Moncktons couldn't even win a nomination battle if their candidate was appointed...

So how did Sam qualify to run?

Disqualify Sam - it's because Mr. Sullivan, though not eligible to vote, is nonetheless eligible to vote in the Vancouver election. He just had his membership slip and hadn't renewed before the deadline set to qualify one for voting in the nomination. For similar reasons, Ms. Clark qualified to run (she'll be eligible to vote in the Vancouver election) but didn't qualify to vote in the nomination.

Rules,

You're actually not quite right.

I think anyone can run for mayor or city council, even non-residents.

That's why carpetbagger CC could run for mayor even though she lives in PM/Coq.

I think this is pretty much the same for prov and federal elections (as Joy and Jenny both did not live in their ridings, I think that Gordo was McFail's MLA).

Cheers

Jenny not living in Vancouver Mt Pleasant - when did she announce this - as one who lives and votes in Mt. Pleasant Jenny has always advertised herself as living in the riding and her campaign people would get pretty defensive when challenged to say just where she lived in the riding. Now we know why they were being so defensive.

No, Rules. That's to file to run for Mayor, under the Vancouver Charter / provincial law.

My question was as to the NPA rules for nomination, a quick check of their bylaws shows that they don't bother to include any rules and issued them at the start of the campaign. In Federal & Provincial Parties, a nomination contestant must be a party member, Sam was not an NPA member at the time of filing his papers, he should not have been qualified to run.

Maybe this is just another sign of the amatuer hour style of the NPA that there were no rules to break?

Disqualify Sam needs to think a little more.

Sam was indeed a member but paid the membership up after the 10th. (the cuttoff date) so as a lapsed member he would be perfectly entitled to run. He just wasn't entitled to vote at this nomination meeting.

Rules existed that were craved in stone for the Board of directors of the association, but they were tossed out the window by Greg Wilson, NPA Camapign boss, who did everything he could to throw the election to his frderal whipmasters. For the last month he was collecting a cheque form the NPA to do good work, instead he was on the phone all day long with Marissen.....you do the math.

When the 'revised' Wilson rules were released the board had a fit, and it was all covered up by Aunty Lynne who couldn't say enough rotten things about Sam all the way through the campaign.

You're right about one thing, the NPA campaign to date has been amateur hour.

"You're right about one thing, the NPA campaign to date has been amateur hour."

Which is why COPE/VV will take at least 9 out of 10 seats.