Alan Garr is garbage. A socialist writer wonk who doesn't know what he's talking about.

Sam still has one friend unless he is calling himself redRoyn lately. It wasn't Garr who did the secret poll about sam's efforts. But it's always greta to blame the messenger.

Garr's been playing around these streets longer than you've been away from momma's strings, I'll hazard to guess, Red Robyn.

I wouldn't call you "garbage", nor would I likely refer to you as a socialist or a writer, but you most certainly fill the bill as someone "who doesn't know what he is talking about."

"I wouldn't call you "garbage", nor would I likely refer to you as a socialist or a writer, but you most certainly fill the bill as someone "who doesn't know what he is talking about."

Garr's political commentary has always been left leaning right from the time he wrote for the Vancouver Sun, and his hatred of the Social Credit government when Bill Bennett was Premier was legendary. Garr's left leanings and favourtism to the socialist NDP was also legendary.

The guy's columns were garr-bage.

I like how, aside from Garr, the mainstream media's line has nothing to do with Sam's policies, and more to do with his style of governing. Tsakumis's Sun editorial did the NPA a big favour, because it framed Sam's tenure as being bogged down by staffing problems and poor management. This was repeated in the Globe article a few days back - Sam is the problem, not the policies. What the NPA/Vancouver Sun/Board of Trade really want is Sam's policies, but coming from a different Mayor. The challenge for progressives is to make people realize that heirs apparent Ladner and Anton have backed the Mayor on his policies every step of the way.

Incredible, but unsurprising...a defender of Sam's, who has nothing to offer except an unecessarily lavish (and inaccurate) insult to Allen Garr. I, too, read Allen's column in the Courier today, and readily admit to liking it very much for being so spot on, although surprised that he is giving Sam's badly bungled Mayoralty as long a shelf life as another six months.

That would have been accurate six months ago.

At some point, regardless of political stripe, since we all care about Vancouver, no matter who is in the bloody Mayor's chair, he/she has to, at least, be doing something more than allowing incompetents to pad their resumes while whittling three years (and taxpayer dollars) away from the City clock; or, rethermalizing past decisions by previous councils and playing them off as groundbreaking initiatives; or even having the unmitigated gall to suggest that "everything is going well", when nothing has been going well--from the starting gun.

I was a reluctant eulogist for Sam's mayoralty.

But the City I grew up in, was educated in (partly), got married in, had kids in, work in...deserves leagues better than what Sam and his dimwit adminstrative apparatchiks are offering up.

Our tax dollars have been paying for a political gong show.