COPE
By samanthaorwell on September 21, 2008 - 3:23am
For full post: http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/
But alas, Vision Vancouver failed to nominate David Eby.
Who woulda thunk it? I thought David Eby was a shoe in. Who can resist that freakishly tall man with a soft-spot for housing social justice?
I certainly can't, especially when he offers to come to my house to talk himself up. No, that was not meant to sound condescending at all. I really was pushing for David.
I don't get it. What happened? To my knowledge, the only thing that David Eby could have done wrong is run a strong slate for housing and homeless issues. *gasp* may I maybe infer that Vision Vancouver's membership is too moderate to push a candidate like Eby through?
Now dare I ask Mr. Eby to run with COPE?
No, Dave really does lose face if he attempts to put together his fallen [short lived] political career.
Go back to Pivot, Eby. If they will let you back in.
Now to everybody, why did he lose?
a) Moderate Vision Vancouver voters (Vision as a "progressive centre left" is a myth)
b) There were just too many other great candidates ahead of him (or ones more closely tied socially/politically/historically to the Vision campaign)
c) Distaste for the housing/homelessness slate
d) Inexperienced in politics
e) Freakishly tall
f) All of the above
g) Some of the above
h) Choose your own adventure.
By samanthaorwell on June 18, 2008 - 2:39pm
http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/06/3-handsome-possibiliti...
Fabula (Francis Bula) has been doing an “addictively” sensational job covering the municipal elections. Some comments:
I’ve come up with 3 handsome possibilities for November:
Possibility of a Vision-COPE alliance?
I like the sounds of that actually. I would vote for Vision’s playboy-juice man if he were endorsed by my favourite oppositional Santa Claus-looking councilor, David Cadman. As previously discussed, Vision and COPE don’t’ necessarily have to duke it out if both of them can agree to be chummy. As Fabula stated, Gregor Robertson isn’t one of the “traitors” that split COPE and therefore is baggageless.
And there are also talks of David Eby and Andrea Reimer running. I assume Andrea Reimer will be aligned with Vision… David Eby? Where would he be? I think he should be aligned with COPE because everybody would vote for David Eby just because he’s a freaking hero.
COPE runs David Cadman
By samanthaorwell on April 30, 2008 - 8:27pm
Does anybody know how to vote in the municipal nov. election when you are OUT of the city? I will be travelling durign that time but still want to vote.
By samanthaorwell on March 27, 2008 - 1:42pm
READ full post HERE:
http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/03/peter-ladner-i-like-yo...
The Vancouver Sun columnist and blogger Miro Cernetig wrote a lovely piece that suggested a debate against Coucillor Peter Ladner and Sam Sullivan. I am very much in support of this idea.
TheVancouverManifesto, as you may know, lies pretty liberal when it comes to politics. But I’m just going to put it out there: If Peter Ladner represented the NPA against Vision and COPE candidates I would vote for him. In struggling to explain myself to my lefty friends, Miro Cernetig explains it beautifully
After years in the game, Peter Ladner is learning something new about himself and politics.
He's an ideas guy at heart, an introspective sort. He likes the thinking part of city politics, the mulling over of policy -- whether it's the big stuff, such as making Vancouver a high-tech city, or the small, smart stuff, say putting a better bicycle lane over a bridge to downtown.
Here's the problem. As he challenges Mayor Sam Sullivan for their civic party's nomination, Ladner's now caught in the nasty grind of machine politics.
I have seen enough of Ladner to know he is a stand up guy. He is engaged in the community and often shows his face on panel presentations on city ideas. Out of city hall he has proven himself an intelligent, engaged and concerned citizen.
By samanthaorwell on January 18, 2008 - 5:27pm
New to local politics (and I mean really new to local politics, I've been digesting both COPE and Visions platforms to decide which party I'd like to officially support. After looking at their respective websites I still couldn't really say for sure. Both have their appeal in completely different ways. In the sure-fire working-class corner there's COPE which champions for the poor and working poor. They appeal to people who know that they are working class, or to those who take Marxist ideals personally. Vision, on the other hand, appeals to the "socially conscious" middle class. In other words (or at least in my opinion), it appeals to those who don't know they are working class or would rather not think about themselves in such a way (myself included). My personal conflict choosing between the two parties involves both my deep intellectual belief in Marxism coupled with my personal dislike of understanding my stance as working-class- factors I'll need to reconcile if I'm to choose either way. But first a little backgrounder-
A little history on the COPE-Vision split care of Wikipedia:
Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented on Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.
