Vision Impaired

Vision Vancouver will stage their Mayoral nomination meeting this Sunday at the Croatian Cultural Centre. As COPE has opted to sit on the sidelines (for now) with respect to going after the big chair, this page actually took out a Vision membership, and will be marking my preferential ballot in the following order:

1. Raymond Louie - This is not a case, as the Samantha Orwell's of the world have suggested, of supporting Louie because he's the Chinese candidate. For this page it's a case of supporting Louie because he's the candidate from a Labour background: anybody who stood up for CEP during Conrad Black's reign of terror gets a big leg up from this page. Unlike his major competitor, Louie also knows how City Hall works - the platform may be limited, but he gets that it's only a three-year term and bigger initiatives could run up against the de facto Mayor of Vancouver and his Public-Private Partnershit Lieberal pals in Victoria.

2. Gregor Robertson - This page has lived in Vancouver long enough to understand that anybody who runs for Mayor needs a bit of a mean streak. Larry Campbell had it, Sam Sullivan had way too much of it, but Robertson doesn't have it. My selfish inner partisan tells me that the Juice King is doing way to good of a job as the MLA for Vancouver-Fairview, and making voting NDP palatable to a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't. One would think that staring across from Emperor Gord every day in the Legislature, Robertson would know that not every former Vancouver Mayor makes a good Premier.

3. Allan De Genova - De Genova decided to throw his hat into the ring to spite Sam Sullivan for the Mayor's remaking of the NPA into Sam's own mean, barking dog, neck-stomping image. This Parks Board Commissioner is the only NPA candidate this page has ever voted for, particularly for his efforts to save Nat Bailey Stadium (and with it, pro baseball in Vancouver) from pre-2010 wrecking ball/redevelopment idiocy. This page would consider voting for De Genova for a Council position, but I'm not about to trust the big chair to anyone who thinks actively seeking support from Federal Liberals is a good idea - the last guy I heard say that was Ujjal Dosanjh.