The COPE Summer Solstice BBQ (and fundraiser) proved to be a great success on Saturday afternoon, raising many thousands of dollars in funds for the upcoming civic election campaign, also providing a comfortable and inviting forum for those COPE members present to discuss COPE Council, Parks and Board of Education policy, as well as the mechanics of an electoral campaign for civic office that all present pledged to devote their entire energies to through until voting day, Saturday, November 15th.
Breaking News: Vision Vancouver Park Board Nominations
The Fix Was In | Vision Vancouver Not An Open Party
Just as VanRamblings predicted last week, the New Voices, One Vision slate trounced those candidates running to secure a spot on the Vision Vancouver Park Board slate — who had not been identified by the party as supplicants to party interests, over the interests of Vancouver citizens who actually give a damn about parks and recreation in our city — to be certain, that would be most of us, although Vision surely doesn’t give a damn.
Vision Vancouver Park Board winners Naveen Girn, Coree Tull, Trish Kelly, Sammie Jo Rumbaua
Trish Kelly was the big winner, securing the most votes at 1,162. Naveen Girn won 1,125, followed by Sammie Jo Rumbaua at 1,029 and Coree Tull at 894. The New Voices, One Vision slate doubled and tripled their closest competitors in the race to secure a nomination for Park Board this autumn.
On Monday, VanRamblings will provide analysis of the Vision Vancouver machine — as we’ve written previously, this nasty crew of backroom fixers and Hollyhock cult followers makes Stephen Harper’s Tories look like Sunday school teachers — and the pre-determining factors that secured a victory, and a hardly fair fight win, for a Vision Park Board candidacy.
