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It's Friday November the 18 around 10:39AM and

Vancouver Tries to Care About Election

*With a day of campaigning left, we finally hear the words that make us roll our eyes more than when a hockey player says he is giving 110 per cent. Sam Sullivan tells 24 Hours he found the, "fire in his belly." Gross. Meanwhile their writer Erin Airton tells of a glorious Jim Green mailer, "To insinuate, as Jim Green and his merry Vision band have done in this mailer, that [Sam Sullivan] is anti-gay and anti-choice is like suggesting Santa Claus is a pimp."

*And if that wasn't enough Jim Green is a dirty politician, Ryan Warawa has more on the lies and that Vision is in the pocket of the gambling industry. Which brings us to our second favorite political play, the suggestion of "hidden agendas." Check.

*We are actually surprised that The Georgia Straight has picked Sam Sullivan for it's Straight Slate feature. Yet calling it a "tricky choice" in another article seems like a lame headline, while burying the meat of what a couple of deadbeats Vancouver has to represent it.

*The Vancouver Sun is reporting record numbers of advance voters this year. That means people are engaged in this election right? We suspect that voters just like getting the dirty feeling of voting for terrible candidates and that stink off them before election day.

*Jak's View From Vancouver asks the big question. How is it that Vancouver is like the best city in the world according to all these dumb polls yet couldn't find a leader to save it's life. We particularly like this part of snark: "we have a choice between a self-serving and arrogant "left winger" who helped destroy the only true left-wing party the city has seen since the war, and a right-leaning politico who has been described as "crazy" and who has sat on Council for 12 years doing nothing."

*The Tyee predicts a Jim Green victory. Gulp. This seems to be a third favorite political meme (see also Academy Award meme). That it's "his time". Come off of it, this guy didn't finish second in the 1990 mayoral race, he lost. He didn't "almost" defeat Gordon Campbell in 1996, he LOST. Then there are these two factors: "Green has run an effective campaign by focusing on the issues that brought COPE to power in the last election. " and "He has great hats." Niether of which are true.

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Posted by: Jak King

November 18, 2005 04:26 PM

Talking about Jim Green's hats, there is a spot in the latest Vision Vancouver ad where Green and Campbell are seen standing together. They are both in hats and heavy coats, and they look like nothing so much as Brezhnev and Kosygin in the 1970s.

Posted by: Jackson Murphy

November 21, 2005 09:24 AM

I love it. Brezhnev and Kosygin references totally rock!