Comments on: NDP wins put some gas in Vision campaign

By: A Dave

A Dave — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:42:24 +0000

A streetfighter from Shaughnessy? I know Ladner likes to kick homeless people around, but blue-haired ladies too? Kidding aside, when politicians start attacking opponents with greater frequency, it’s usually a sign that they think their campaign is in trouble.

By: Wagamuffin

Wagamuffin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:42:37 +0000

Bill Lee; I saw that too…I’m not sure our privacy laws allow that. The Registrar of voters has the lists but I don’t think they are listed anywhere for the public.

By: The Waif

The Waif — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:40:41 +0000

Will Vision please install a Free Public Drinking Water Fountain in every public building before they ban bottled water?

As a resident of the ‘burbs, I was rather shocked to discover the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library, has no drinking fountains. (Or are they just well hidden? I did look!)

By: Bill Lee

Bill Lee — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:57:41 +0000

Linkname: http://www.smh.com.au – Secret is out on how to make people vote
URL:
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2008/10/27/1224955951282.html

Social pressure.

Though as Mr. Robertson has discovered, we are quite alone
in this city. The phrase “city of detached villages” comes to mind.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:25:46 +0000

The NDP win in Fairview was still by a relatively small margin.

That said, if one looks at the 2005 mayoral map, VV virtually swept the area comprising Vancouver-Burrard and Vancouver-Fairview.

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/election2005/finalresults.htm#MAYOR

By: Same here

Same here — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:36:01 +0000

I got the same push poll too. “Peter Lardner wants to lower business taxes.”

guess the NPA couldn’t afford a phone bank with people who can pronounce their candidate’s name.

By: Bill Lee

Bill Lee — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:03:14 +0000

Just had a push-poll from Innovative asking if I had ever heard
of Ladner and Robertson.
Also knowing that BCTF members are running for school board would
I vote for COPE if they were going to favour teachers etc.
And the usual, union donations for Vision votes for council influence.

Sigh.

I had an South Asian (Indian) accented questionnaire.
I imagine that I haven’t got the Cantonese pollster saying
that the Left is going to nationalize property like in bad old China.

Obviously they don’t care about the answers other than putting
the seed of doubt into the non-readers of the community. The
Pac Press deliver 4 papers to what I can see is 50 homes in my
neighbourhood in the morning. We are not in the Courier demographic distrobution.
And about 70 percent of those blocks are Chinese households with
a mixed use of English or Chinese.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:48:47 +0000

I don’t think the federal results are any comfort for the NPA either, considering of Vancouver’s five seats, the NDP picked up the only Conservative seat and the Liberals held their own, even if only barely in Vancouver South.

By: Ideologue Cabin

Ideologue Cabin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:44:24 +0000

Bad news for the NPA, for sure. Everyone keeps talking about how Peter will win if turnout is low. The turnout for the by-election was even lower than the last civic election! those weren’t 20 somethings voting in Fairview yesterday – those were homeowners, and Peter might have to find yet another top priority to try and spark some Ladner-mania among the populace.

By: Glenn Murtz

Glenn Murtz — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:42:24 +0000

Funny stuff…

Peter Ladner crowed about a “global investment banker” potentially being part of the NPA council.
In the same debate, he made a few remarks on the potential “economic meltdown” and the dangers it posed to Vancouver.
So I’m wondering… couldn’t part of that meltdown be attributed to “global investment bankers”?

Another thing …
Gregor is a guy who willingly gave up his newbily (newbie adverbed) acquired NDP seat in the provincial legislature to run as Mayor. This strikes me as incredibly ambitious. Almost *too* ambitious and somewhat audacious really, and this seemed to be a talking point for Ladner too, though the thought of one politician calling out another one for being too “ambitious” is laughable. Not that Ladner didn’t try it…

I also liked Ladner invoking the “COPE/Vision” term, as if COPE were somehow going to be infecting Vision with some dirty hippy-ish commie ideology – and driving the decision making at City Hall… I’m pretty sure I caught Gregor smirking at that too…

Huzzah on the 2 NDP wins. A shame they won’t get a chance to warm the seats in the legislature, since, as we all know by now, we don’t have one in this province …