November 27, 2010 - 11:25 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
The campaign has been successful - Clark is set to announce the start of her leadership bid the week after next.
CivicScene has just received word that Christy Clark will announce her candidacy for the BC Liberal leadership the week after next.
Sources say that she will spend next week submitting her letter of resignation to CKNW, working out the terms of her departure, and filing the necessary paperwork with the party.
CivicScene has also learned that Mike McDonald, the former B.C. Liberal caucus communications director in Victoria, is rumoured to have accepted the job as Clark’s campaign manager.
McDonald will be known to some political observers from the allegations of the defense team in the Basi-Virk trial, which claimed that he was supervising political dirty tricks directly out of a government office, including stacking phone calls to talk radio shows on CKNW. These allegations, made by Kevin McCullough, the former lawyer for Bob Virk, were of course never proven in court.
I will post more details on the Clark campaign structure as (and if) they become available.
October 12, 2010 - 9:57 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
August 27, 2010 - 9:21 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
The image of a reporter aggressively tracking down a story has been shattered by a Vancouver media contingent that doesn't seem to be bothered with the facts.
So this week’s latest pile-on by the media is over the renovations that are occurring at City Hall and the empty space that has resulted in the city’s engineering department moving to the Crossroads building at Broadway and Cambie.
This story by Vancouver Sun reporter Jeff Lee was the piece that started the frenzy.
And ever since Monday, most reporting that has picked up on the item has failed to acknowledge a number of pertinent pieces of information that changes the entire context of the way in which the vacancies within City Hall came to be.
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August 13, 2010 - 11:33 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
David Pratt is crossing his fingers that he can convince Bruce Allen to run for Mayor.
Remember David Pratt? The leather pant wearing, middle-aged bachelor (how is that possible with such wardrobe choices) has a vendetta against City Hall over the bike lanes that are being put up across downtown.
Well, now his latest brainwave is to have music mogul Bruce Allen run for Mayor.
Hmmm…what could be the basis of his platform if Pratt is successful in his efforts?
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