Earlier, Public Eye exclusively confirmed parks board member Allan De Genova would be seeking Vision Vancouver's mayoral nomination. And that news has some wondering what the Coalition of Progressive Electors thinks about a former Non-Partisan Association member making a bid to lead Vision's slate into the next election. Well, speaking for himself, coalition recording secretary Tim Louis stated, "When you subscribe to the view that I do that he who pays the piper calls the tune, it's always been my belief that Vision is, in fact, nothing other than another version - perhaps a prettier, younger version - of the NPA" - referring to the substantive donations Vision has received from the development industry. "And this is now being demonstrated by a number of the big names that are talking about or are running for the Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination" such as Allan De Genova.

So, if Mr. De Genova does win that nomination, would the coalition have more difficulty working with Vision? "That would be determined by the entire COPE membership," responded Mr. Louis. "I can only ever talk about my view - which is that COPE most definitely needs to run a COPE mayoral candidate. And COPE could never ever put forward as its mayoral candidate an NPA retread developer advocate who is no different then the current mayoral incumbent."