Is Mike Klassen preparing to run for City Council?
January 5th, 2010
I have now received several emails and been a part of a few holiday conversations with NPA affiliated political operatives which have brought the name of Mike Klassen to my attention as a potential City Council candidate in 2011.
Klassen is of course one half of the tandem that runs the virulently anti-Vision Vancouver CityCaucus website.
Now of course at this point, speculation, rumour and conjecture is all I have to go on, making this post little more than a political “What if?” rather than a definitive comment on such a candidacy.
However, if indeed there is basis for such an assertion, I have a few questions to pose.
Which party would Klassen run for? I mean, with posts that question whether there is even a need for the NPA with the emergence of Vision, it seems as though he would be hard pressed to go and make nice within his former local political entitty of choice.
If Klassen does run, would CityCaucus officially become little more than a platform for a future candidate rather than what the website describes as “a fun, but respectful dialogue about Canada’s major urban centres”?
As a candidate rather than simply a poliitcal operative, would Klassen still be as opposed to wards as an electoral system, in consideration of his roots in the Mountain View neighbourhood?
Is Klassen’s interest in runnning contingent on the Mayoral candidate he would be affiliated with (assuming he chooses not to run as an independent)?
As a candidate, will Klassen’s past and future political attacks against Vision Vancouver’s policies/conduct become even less credible?
So as not to be accused of asking these questions in isolation, I am sending the text of this post to klassen [at] thinkcap.com to see if I can get some answers directly from the source.
Stay tuned…
