Where is that cash?

September 22nd, 2009
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A half a million could fund a lot of different things behind the scenes; a pseudo "caucus," if you will

From the Tyee, June 19, 2008:

“…Vancouver’s campaign finance rules are so weak that there may effectively be no law preventing Sullivan from taking his campaign secrets to the grave — and disposing of any left-over cash in whatever fashion he chooses.”

“However, no local or provincial office is charged with enforcing charter regulations involving campaign finance. And even if a candidate were somehow found to be in violation, the only penalty provided is a prohibition against holding municipal office — hardly a fearsome punishment to someone who’d just been tossed out of office after 15 years of public service.”

One Response to “Where is that cash?”

  1. VisionSupporter says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Perhaps that cash is financing NPA attack blog (CityCaucus) run by two former Sullivan hacks?

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FACT OF THE DAY

An article titled Vancouver Politics by Paul Tennant in The Vancouver Book (1976), describes the entry of TEAM onto the civic political scene in 1968. TEAM, wrote Tennant, “sought to be a moderate reform group appealing to persons of all political ideologies.”

On their left was COPE (the Committee of Progressive Electors), also formed in 1968, and on their right was the NPA (the Non-Partisan Association), which had been a power in city politics for nearly four decades, and which “held that the affairs of the city should be run by those with the necessary knowledge and experience, i.e., those with a professional-managerial background, in order to run the city in a business-like way.”

The reformers, on the other hand, “felt that civic decision-making should be open to the public, with leadership coming from a cross-section of the population, and rule going to the working class majority. This group was concerned about land use, they advocated city control, and preferred to structure politics around the neighborhood concept.”

Quote OF THE DAY

“It was very diverse, and we got together by word of mouth. There were professors, business people, labor, lawyers and from all across the city. It was a coalescing of people around the idea we should do something.” – former City Councillor Setty Pendakur on the formation Vancouver’s reform movement and its political manifestation – TEAM – came into being in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.

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