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City Caucus sees controversy around every corner

Posted by Jonathan Ross

The City Caucus Vision Vancouver inspired Halloween mask is slated to hit stores next year.

Trumped up indignation and outcry about what they consider as transgressions by City Council (meaning just about every action taken) is something that the City Caucus boys have mastered into an artform

The latest?  The way in which they are characterizing these t-shirts – which are a lighter way of showing support for a policy that the party campaigned and were elected on – as akin to making fun of terminally ill patients.  But, as they say, they try really hard.

Which brings me to my next point – their recent elevation of the mundane to the scandalous with regards to the noise exemption letter signed by Mayor Gregor Robertson.

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Examining the shifting positions of City Caucus

Posted by Jonathan Ross

It seems as though this has become the preferred method of engaging in political debate within the City of Vancouver these days.

Why would you need an outside consultant when there are at least three staff in the protocol office sitting idle (council is about to shut this office down soon and lay off staff) and a full complement of communications staff hired to do this kind of thing? Why not put them to work instead and save taxpayers the consultant’s fee?“ - April 11, 2010

What Vancouver has seen since it elected Gregor Robertson as mayor is an arrogant and cavalier disregard for taxpayers hard-earned dosh.” – August 29, 2010

They’ve searched high and low for the elusive “financial backer” of CityCaucus.com, never once considering that this might be the effort of dedicated volunteers.” - September 3, 2010

Whether the so-called media hit list actually exists or not, it was widely circulated and served to further damage already bad relations between the Mayor’s office staff and some local media.” – September 6, 2010

Sitting here in the afterglow of the TIFF Premiere Screening of “Score: A Hockey Musical” (which Canadian critics and audience members really fell for, while the Yanks sat there on their hands befuddled - and which I loved) and the gala after-party, which was unbelievably amazing, I am calm and collected when I write this.

That does not preclude the fact that I must take issue with what has happened in the local Vancouver political scene over the past week.

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Monday’s quick hits

Posted by Jonathan Ross

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Robertson’s polling causing headaches for critics

Posted by Jonathan Ross

Gregor Robertson's critics are feeling the pain of watching the most popular Mayor in Vancouver history continue to gain momentum - in spite of their best efforts.

It is no surprise that this article over the weekend would cause the usual suspects to writhe in agony.

And it is also no surprise that those very critics would immediately follow up with a post attempting to discount the accuracy of the data and lamenting the fact that the media also likes the Mayor – a lot.

And while it may be a grim day for supporters of the heir apparent to Philip Owen-Sam Sullivan-Peter Ladner, Suzanne Anton (hmmm…maybe that isnt’ the kind of lineage she would necessarily want to promote in public), it is a strong endorsement for the current administration’s direction.

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FACT OF THE DAY

In 2010, Vancouver had fewer than half the number of murders than it had in 2009.  There were nine homicides within Vancouver’s city limits, down from 19 killings the previous year.

Quote OF THE DAY

“Perhaps it was my silk dress or the new perfume I’ve been wearing lately. When I asked Suzanne Anton what her New Year’s resolution was, she replied, “To kiss a pretty girl!” and pecked me on the cheek.”  – Writer Emily Barca describing her encounter with the lone NPA City Councillor on New Year’s Eve.

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