Suzanne Anton seems to have forgotten about her guest appearances in the videos that she is so riled up about.
So as per usual, lone NPA (Vancouver First???) Councillor Suzanne Anton’s lacklustre opposition to the Vision Vancouver administration is relying on a blogger and potential City Council candidate to do her work for her.
It is a commonly held belief around the city that Anton has failed miserably at providing any kind of opposition to the ruling party – largely because of an apparent fondness for Gregor Robertson.
Hell must be freezing over when I actually quote from the musings of Alex Tsakumis, but I must reference this post entitled “Why Suzanne Anton Should Not Ever be Mayor of Vancouver…,” and more specifically this line:
“But why on God’s green orb she bothers to pretend that as a mayoral candidate she would even have a snow cone’s chance in hell against Gregor…”
Tsakumis posts a notice sent to Anton supporters inviting them to support a garden party in support of Heritage Vancouver, with the special guest being…get this – Mayor Gregor Robertson. The picture that Anton proudly shows off with her and the Mayor is particularly nice.
In a similar fashion, Anton’s criticisms of Olympic videos on Global’s story from last night just reek of tunnel-vision hypocrisy.
In her standup, Anton claims that:
“I think it is good to have a public record of things, but you got to make sure it is a record of all the proceedings, not just focusing on the Mayor.”
But wait, let’s take a look at one example of those videos profiling Chinese New Year, which features a number of Councillors, INCLUDING Anton (forward to 1:35):
In fact, let me reference an Anton quote from the video:
“This is our greatest party ever in Vancouver, you know, and people get a little serious about the Olympics – “Oh, what are you doing it for?” You know, it’s like saying “Why do you have a birthday party?” You know, you do it because once in a while, it’s really fun to celebrate and that’s what we’re doing right now.”
Anton’s celebrations certainly received plenty of coverage in this clip.
Or how about this video profiling the Paralympic Games (forward to 0:23):
Like Anton said in the Global clip, “it is good to have a public record of things.” But as you can clearly see, these videos were far from “just focusing on the Mayor.”
Anton was so excited to get another media hit from the work of Mike Klassen that she forgot about her own role and profile within these videos.
Documenting the Olympics in this fashion is entirely appropriate…it was a once in a lifetime event in the history of Vancouver, and the City of Vancouver would have been embarrassed if there was no official records of the proceedings.
Quite frankly, any of the Councillors or even former Mayors like Sam Sullivan would do well from using these videos to promote their contributions to the Olympic experience.
This is yet another story that is going nowhere, and another example of how moribund and vacuous the NPA has truly become.
Maybe it really is time for a name change.
