Vision Vancouver’s Version of McCarthyism Explained: The Sequel
The media ‘hit list’ leaked to me by a Vision insider, appalled no shortage of news directors/editors/producers etc.
Thus far, I’ve heard from six, urging me to get my source to allow the tape to be released or at least get him to allow for some kind of interview, even if it’s with his identity blocked.
Well, I can confirm here that I’ll do better than that–but not right away (it took me a long time to get Ark Tsisserev to talk). My source is scared and I don’t blame him, Vision Vancouver are a nasty crew. They don’t stop at attacking your words or even the limited ad hominem (where they might say something about your credibility, etc…the usual nonsense)–your appearance, your family–nothing is off limits.
They will attack you as deeply as they can get. How do I know? Because they’ve already done it to me.
In spades.
In the fall of last year they unleashed spitting, drooling mad dog Jonathan Ross as a response to the death-by-a- thousand cuts stories about Vision Vancouver of citycaucus.com. One of Ross’ first acts of insanity was to pretend he could put himself on par with me. He wrote a mindless rebuttal to an accurate portrayal I wrote of the Burrard Bridge bike lane lies furnished to you by Vision, and sent me a copy of his incomprehensible maths to try to engage me.
I replied and then ignored his stream of consciousness, sweaty bafflegab.
Then the trouble started: Emails from an ‘anonymous’ address, but from his own IP address, mocking my appearance–comparing me to ‘The Penguin’ of ‘Batman’ lore (which he has apparently repeated today). Not satisfied with entertaining his whip masters in the Mayor’s office, he continued, under the same ‘anonymous’ email address (but identical IP), actually pretending to be someone else. Eventually when I confronted him about it, in the only phone call I could endure with him, he admitted it. But it was the level of nastiness that shocked me. Comments about my wife, my parents, my siblings–even my children. When I confronted the Mayor’s Minister of Propaganda, Kevin Quinlan about it over lunch, he told me (and this is verbatim): “I told Jonathan all that stuff is totally offside and we want nothing to do with him when he does that.”
Then at Christmas, after I’d pummeled Ross’ party for the lies they’d been telling the public for over a year, he sends a Christmas message.
Since then the complete manipulation and breathtaking misrepresentation by Ross of posts I have written here, in feeble, largely illiterate attempts to discredit me, have been non-stop: The attempted insults about my lack of hair, or that I am fat, or that I might be a closeted gay man, or that I’m racist, or public comments at Vision events about my parents despising me, are all in play. So where is Mr. Quinlan on such insanity? I’ll tell you. Through Vision media contacts, this monster Ross gets op-ed pieces published but has his pieces hand-crafted for him by Quinlan himself. So, you see how the Mayor’s office works. while they are behind the lies and nastiness, they condemn it in public.
But all those attacks are only rivaled by the gallons of ink spilled on trying to get all of Ross’ two dozen readers to believe that Michael Klassen is the anti-Christ.
It’s been one below-the-belt screed after another against Mike (and Daniel) but it’s Mike’s head they want on a platter. The violence of the words, in particular is not only astonishing, but disturbing. You see, Klassen does what he does almost full-time. I don’t. I also have three very active kids. So while I can attack with greater accuracy, the sheer volume of what the boys at citycaucus.com have done is a massive problem for Vision Vancouver, since much of their youth/cyclist/skateboard community support get their news from the internet.
So, with that as backdrop, let’s peel back a little more of the Vision Vancouver curtain to give you an idea of why they want you to think I concocted the media hit list.
To do that, I’ll show you how it makes perfect sense and how they are praying it will go away. Below I’ll give you the reason for each ranking and the stories that set Vision off.
1. Mike Klassen (citycaucus.com)–you name it he’s covered it–everything from City Hall budgets to Vision bullshit. The ultimate thorn in their side. Coupled with Daniel Fontaine, it was the one two punch that might not have started off too well, but is now the go-to blog for scuttlebutt on Vision Vancouver lies. Mike’s prolific work is causing Vision massive headaches and particularly where leaks from city staff are concerned, citycaucus.com ranks number one in providing Mayor Moonbeam with every reason to hide under his desk with a bottle of extra-strength Advil.
2. Alex Tsakumis (alexgtsakumis.com)–well, let’s toot our horn here a little. I get more visitors than Frances Bula and have broken more stories across the board be it civic, provincial of federal than any other media source in the province. Vision’s problem with me is two-fold: Gregor announced in my column and received great support from me when I was a columnist at 24hours–so when I turned on him when he did everything opposite from what he had promised and pursued a radical, extremist agenda, the legitimacy factor in my condemnation was tough for them to attack. After I resigned from 24, they celebrated thinking it was over. But now that this blog is a runaway success with over 140,000 visitors per month and counting (I think August broke July’s record, I’ll check), they’re petrified–and they should be considering the backlog of stories on them I’m currently sitting on.
3. Daniel Fontaine (citycaucus.com)–well, notwithstanding the fact that Daniel was Sam’s Chief of Staff, he has carved Vision Vancouver up in all sorts of surgically accurate strikes. Additionally, not one to lapdog for the NPA, he’s written posts that are critical of his former party. Vision hates this. They yelp about bias, but if you show that they’re wrong, they can’t attack on your work, so they lie about it and spit at you.
4. Marisa Thomas (Global TV)–ran with superb pieces on Vision’s awarding of $50,000 no bid/no tender contract to FD element–strong Vision supporters. And then followed up with outstanding interviews of the Mayor where she actually pushed him to answer tough questions–in classic Bob Skelly style, he failed. And then again, more stories on Vision hijinks. When you’re doing that on the most popular dinner hour news that’s a major problem for Vision. But I hear Chief of Staph Mike Magee is putting pressure on Global through back channels (pun unintended) to lighten up. Let’s see.
5. Wayne Moriarty (The Province)–the Editor of the only newspaper in the province to accurately and completely cover Vision Vancouver. If it’s not exposing them on bike lanes, it’s calling them out on their phoniest of figures related to those lanes. They coined the phrase in one editorial when referring to Vision’s “radical green agenda.” I’m told this had Mike Magee’s infamous hot head almost off his shoulders and into orbit.
6. Christy Clark (CKNW)–she’s hammered Vision Princess of Poison Patti Bacchus on her nonsensical activism on behalf of the BCTF and the NDP. Christy has also done a wonderful series on the bike lane follies and often provides exceptional perspective on the lies seeping out from Vision’s bailiwick. Best afternoon program in years for truth about Vision follies. If we’d made her Mayor, there wouldn’t be a Vision. Then again, I’d been petrified to have to listen to Sam for two and a half hours every day…
7. Jill Bennett (CKNW)–two words: Bike lanes. Jill was the first to question the one million riders on and off the Burrard Bridge lie and recently did a great editorial on the bike lane insanity and Vision’s agenda being ill-suited to a better Vancouver. Big problem for the Green Gods at 12th and Cambie when they’re getting hammered during the week by McComb and Clark, and then on weekends by Bennett (and recently Sean Leslie).
8. Janet Brown (CKNW)–one of the best pure reporters in the province, I have no idea what their beef is with Brown other than the fact that she is a tough interviewer and has given the Mayor more than one Bob Skelly moment (it’s now his trademark, thus the hiding).
9. Jeff Lee (The Vancouver Sun)–another pure, excellent reporter, who is not interested in doing ‘A Miro’ (that’s now a phrase used to figuratively describe in local journalism, a slobbering, pandering, they-can-do-no-wrong, I-love-Gregor column on Vision Vancouver–or what you might get if you were looking about halfway down the menu at ‘The Swedish Touch’). Lee’s pieces are NOT pandering at all to Vision–in fact quite the opposite. He recently spanked Vision’s crazy poodle Ross on his own site no less, and released the info on the empty City Hall main building. This, again, had Penny Bedlam and Mayor Moonbeam alternating puffs from the Tylenol hookah.
10. Harvey Oberfeld (harveyoberfeld.ca)–believes that cyclists should be licensed and taxed. Has been highly critical of Vision’s agenda and does not suffer fools. Vision’s response: One of their blogosphere geniuses told Harv to stop ODing on doughnuts. They actually had the guy write it in the comments section of Harv’s exceptional website. Nice. Class all the way.
11. Charlie Smith (The Georgia Straight)–it’s simple. Charlie thinks Vision aren’t left wing enough and pines for the return of COPE. He encourages any moderate candidate from the left or right to chip away at Robertson’s support and has never written a fawning piece on Robertson or Vision. He presents a problem to them from their left flank. Other than yours truly, Charlie was the first to encourage David Chudnovsky to run as COPE mayoral candidate.
12. Bob Mackin (24 hours)–quite frankly, this guy is one of the best investigative journalists in this province. Plays no favorites and sees right through Vision’s nonsense. If you balance off the endless, pertinent, life-changing stories about Pamela Anderson and the chronicles of a very attractive woman who is too neurotic to get a first date that doesn’t end up snoring against her bedposts, 24hours’ only current redeemable value is anything Mackin writes about or covers. He provided the best Olympic coverage in B.C. and continues to hammer away at Vision’s absurdities.
13. Mike Howell (The Courier)–a top-notch reporter who has also covered Vision fairly, he, along with Sandra Thomas and Mark Hasiuk are the balance for Allen Garr’s now open love affair with the radical New Ageists running Silly Hall. Howell in particular has done some great work on telling the stories on Vision straight, without the usual butt-smooching they can rely on from dear old Allen.
14. Mark Hasiuk (The Courier)–Vision considers him dangerous. He has a keen intellect and a sharp wit. His writing is effective and succinct. He did a wonderful piece on the ‘NPA Fuckin’ Hacks” meltdown that Gregor Skelly had earlier this summer.
15. Geoff Dembicki (The Tyee)–this one had me stumped until I did a little research…if you donate to the Tyee you get a receipt from an entity related to Vision godfather Joel Solomon. And they routinely provide ultra left wing drivel about anything and everything: The planet is dying, Harper will choke your rabbits, conservatives are evil, cyclists have better erections, marijuana is really, really good for you. But the reality is that regardless of working for a far left leaning publication, Dembicki is a great reporter and did some terrific pieces through the Olympics on how people like Vision enforcer Geoff Meggs (shamefully) sided with the censorship of VANOC, in denying university kids the right to (appropriately) display ‘The Owelympics Suck’ on their dorm room windows.
Now, in the last 24 hrs that I’ve been putting this post together, you should note the evidence of WMD (Weapons of Mass Deflection) deployed by the Mayor’s wrecking crew:
1. Last night I received the following note from Mayor Moonbeam’s boy blunder Kevin Quinlan in response to my questions about the list:
Alex,
There is no such list. That is a complete lie, it is offensive and it is delusional for anyone to claim that one exists.
Sincerely,
Kevin
Kevin Quinlan
Executive Assistant
Office of the Mayor
City of Vancouver
Since then he’s also gone onto twitter to write that I am “pathetic”…..
2. This morning on CBC radio, while in studio, Vision Vancouver harridan Marcella Munro was asked by a producer if she was prepared to talk about the existence of a list. She was on a panel with NPA hopeful Sean Bickerton. Her response: “No way, forget it” Her shrill protest just about had her on a stretcher…..
3. Vision pinhead Jonathan Ross, like clock work, releases another attack piece on me, with a picture of a grotesque looking ‘Penguin’ to preface multiple paragraphs of venom, drivel and innuendo. Yawn…
4. Mike Magee, Mayor Dimbell’s Chief of Gaffe, has spent the better part of the day intimidating newsrooms across town about this story, telling editors and producers that I made up the list and that I’m a liar who just hates Vision.
5. Clr. Andrea Remier is tweeting, mocking me and my story. Then again, it’s not the first time she’s had some problems with twitter…
Does this sound like they’re worried about something? You bet. Because they know that inside Vision are silos of organizers, that are perfectly capable of putting together a list. They know it exists and they know they’re caught. If they have nothing to worry about, then why all the vitriol? Why the venom? Why act precisely as my source claims they are prone to?
Starting to see the picutre?
On the one hand, according to them, I have no credibility and made this up (just like they said when I revealed the Ark Tsisserev story and so many others), on the other, they sure are nasty and over-the-top in responding, no?
Okay Mike…let’s stop talking about your media hit list…
Instead, maybe we should start talking about how a particularly successful Vancouver political party was paying one particularly active ethnic group IN CASH to work for them in 2008…hmm? Whatd’ya say Mr. Magee?
Where’d the cash come from, Mike?
Alex:
Are your 140,000 visitors per month actually page views per month? An important distinction. Just wondering. No doubt lots of people are reading your posts, but that number seems pretty high, esp. as Frances is claiming 130,000 page views per month. I know that I visit both blogs and will do so more than once a day when a hot topic is being discussed, and judging by the comments sections of both blogs, that is not an uncommon practice.
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That you have to ask and clearly want to ignore what I have already confirmed is typical. Yes, Chris, I know the difference between hits, visits, bandwidth, and views. I know you’d like to minimize the significance of my website, that much is obvious. What’s the matter can’t accept that I’m besting your fellow Vision sycophant, Frances?
Once again, you demonstrate a breathtaking inability to compare apples with apples. Of course I’m going to out gun her. I write about civic, provincial, national and international issues. I have readers from across the country, throughout America and from all over the world. Frances writes love letters to Gregor and Bob Rennie, provides snorgasms to anyone willing to wade through yet another mangled interpretation of some policy she doesn’t even want to get and limits herself to one fawning screed per few days.
I write multiple stories per day, that are straight talk, no nonsense, absolutely outside the MSM bullshit. On national issues alone (usually Fridays, thus the feature ‘Federal Fridays’) I’m more often than not featured on Bourque Watch, Canada’s number one news site. Frances gets invited to gallery openings Fridays, and can tell you which cafe you can enjoy the best provolone, fried basil and mortadella panini.
Give me and my readers a break Chris. What’s the matter? The Vision world is crumbling and you’re afraid for your empty, failed bike lanes. Well, you should. They’ll be gone.
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Hi Alex:
Alexa.com provided me with enough data to figure out the answer for myself.
thanks,
Chris
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As is typical of your ilk, Keam, you manufacture when you can’t reply. The “information” you received from alexa.com is meaningless. If you go to the relevant column you will see that they list “No Data”. Do you know why that is, Chrissy? Because my blog, like the vast majority of blogs is private. So any information you get ANYWHERE is either inaccurate or incomplete. But you just keep thinking that attacking this blog is going to help you. What happen to your hero Gregor and his rapidly shrinking world?
You are by far and away the most pathetic excuse for a commenter on any blog I’ve ever read. You and spartikus. Oh, I must have read that somewhere…I think on alexa.com LOL!!!!!
So long Chrissy.
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Alex – all Vancouver political bloggers should measure and report two sets of ‘visitor’ stats – one with Chris Keam visits and one without. His constant and annoying bicycle belches appear everywhere and grossly distort these figures. I am sure City Caucus’ numbers would be about 1/2 sans CK visits and posts. I sometimes wonder if there aren’t actually many CK’s – maybe 20 or more – just like the million cyclists on Burrard the math is hard recreate…unless of course it is just a lone lonely delusionist posting 24 hours a day?
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Thankfully, there is only one Chris Keam, deep in his own little world. I cannot understand the man at all. He really is a piece of work. He comes here to tell me that he’s found my blog numbers on a site that cannot possibly know those numbers since this blog is private. He is an addict–to bullshit. He goes to Frances’ site so he can feel the warmth of the left coast love and then peruses mine and others, SEVERAL TIMES per day, sometimes several times PER HOUR (!!!!) to run along and report to his superiors. The man is beyond help, I fear.
He’s the first guy to complain that people are not sticking to ISSUES. So he comes along and manufactures an issue to take away form the topic–which reveals his cycling fascists for what they are–liars, cheats and nutbars.
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Hi Guys:
What I did was compare Alex’s site to citycaucus and bula’s site using Alexa.com.
It’s possible that Alex gets the amount of visitors he says, but based on what Citycaucus and bula.com report for their statistics regarding traffic to their sites and how his site stacks up in comparison, I don’t think my skepticism is unwarranted. No doubt, Alex is getting 4000+ visits (as opposed to visitors) per day on average, but I expect that many of them are repeat customers returning to the site with varying degrees of regularity, rather than unique visitors. It’s impressive, but not quite the same thing.
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Right! You compared my site which is a closed site–entirely for security–with two sites that have both crashed before. In fact, Bula’s site has been hijacked SEVERAL times by the generic Viagra crowd. My IT tried to explain to her, through an email tome, why this was happening, but I gather she didn’t learn her lesson since it happened twice after that.
So…you compared apples with carburetors, once again…
Finally, the visitors I cited are UNIQUE visitors. That’s how it appears. Please do not comment on this again, I will not approve your comment. Stick to the topic, thx. I appreciate your clarification. That you admitted to the 4-5K per month is quite big of you considering the maths you employed…
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After reading Johnathan Ross’s column today it is clear that Vision is very nervous right now, and they should be.
There are many of us that have dirty little Vision secrets……
If every person that has been attacked by this group of vicious thugs were to speak up, we have the power and ammunition to stop this insanity.
I’d be willing to bet, that any reporter on that list would be more than happy to help us….Contact anyone on the list, please tell your story.
Never underestimate the power of the people …. we don’t forget, eventually we are all going to talk…. Thank you Alex, Mike and all reporters on that list for your integrity, and willingness to pursue the truth.
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You’re most welcome. I think it’s pretty clear that this is not about right vs left and simply about right versus wrong. Vision are wrong for Vancouver. And that’s clear.
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Kevin and Jonathan. One sings falsetto the other one plays the trombone. They both think they are talented. They don’t realize they are both tone deaf. So they keep playing the same tune. Heads must roll. And I’m not just saying that. We don’t live in the ’50s in Novosibirsk.
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Or maybe we do! I just got another tip as I’m replying. These Vision characters are so done…
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The mint. In Ottawa…lol!
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if mike magee doesn’t have a stroke or something over this list he will live to be a hundred. you have them so worried alex they have arranged to get gregor on with bill good for thursday morning.
you have them on the run, please do not stop. it has become impossible to work under the bitch since she will not make a move unless it is approved by mike magee. gregor is just a suit..
do not stop alex. you do not have a clue how many people down here are rooting for you. we are all cheering for you to uncover them. the work environment has never been more toxic. good luck alex.
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Hang in there friend. I’m doing everything I can. They are attacking me on such a very personal level, it defies logic. I received a phone call from an old co-worker (ten years gone). She told me that she received a phone call from someone asking what kind of executive I was and what I was like to work with. Then the questions got interesting. “Do you think he had any drug or alcohol habits that interfered with his job?” “Do you know his wife at all?” They claimed they were doing a search on behalf of a PR firm for some new job I was interested in. Complete BS. I’m not applying for any job and the last goddamned thing I’d do if run off and be some PR hack. As soon as she asked for their number, pretending she was going to call them back, they left a fake number. Problem being the main switchboard of her office picked up the actual number this person was calling from. Know who owns the number? The wife of a prominent Vision player–it’s her home number. Just wait, there will be more. I will expose them, slowly and painfully. They will not get away with trying to do this to me or my family. It’s just way beyond the pale.
Just hang in there. I appreciate the support and wish you and your colleagues courage. Be strong.
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As for Ross I see his site says.
Jonathan also has extensive experience in the private sector, serving as the VP of Communications and Marketing for an inaugural international trade show, as an Associate Producer of high level websites for a major domain development company, and as a Policy and Communications Consultant for one of British Columbia’s most powerful industry associations.
So no companies that people have heard of so it’s not worth mentioning the name. Domain development Company? Hmmm. Not even the Mayors juice company.
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What is should say is this: jonathan Ross received a no-bid/no-tender contract with the West Vancouver Police while Kash Heed was Chief Constable. The contract was arranged for Ross by Barinder Sal. Of course it didn’t hurt either that Ross’ wife became the executive assistant to Kash Heed. It should also say that he was paid almost a thousand dollars per page to put together a manual without a stitch of police experience. The total contract? Almost $12,000 dollars. The total number of pages of the manual? About a dozen.
That Kash Heed sure surrounds himself with big shots…
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Alex, when you break a story like this that seems so bizarre, people will second guess whether or not your source was credible – or even the story. You have the VV spinmeisters going full broke attacking your credibiity right now.
Ahhhh… but when I read Bob Mackin’s piece today in 24 hours your story has been CORROBORATED – which is VERY important at this early stage.
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Quote: “The former Vision Vancouver insider who leaked a list of 15 reporters unpopular with the city’s governing party said it was created to personally target critical journalists.
“The gist of it is those people on the list are causing them discomfort, grief and they need to do something about it,” said the man, who asked for his name not to be published.
He said two Vision Vancouver organizers on the verge of quitting the party gave him the email list. The subject line says “problem media – get back to me on this immediately”.
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http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2010/09/02/15223056-24hvan.html
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Jebeezus… this story now has legs and the mayor’s staff is in VERY BIG trouble. This could well be the plitical death knell for VV – and Mayor Moonbeam will have to wear it. Fantastic scoop!
BTW, the hit list is now a lead story on CKNW News.
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I know. Meanwhile Quinlan and Magee are calling news rooms and threatening lawsuits. Brilliant. That’s really the smart way to be going about handling the media. Hysterical.
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Sorry I’m late, I was having my kidney disease treated by this shaman who burned some herbs in a sacred forest clearing and put different kinds of coloured sand on me and then chanted and drummed for a while until his pacemaker started to act up. I should have turned off my iPhone. Did you know there’s a dreadful rumour that iThngs are made by child slaves in China? That Bill Gates will say anything to destroy Apple.
Anyway, remember this slogan in Nov/11 : Vancouver needs Robertson like a chicken needs a bicycle.
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And you’ve clearly been spending time with Glissando! Brilliant!
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The Thought of The Day
“Thinking about it, I personally, wouldn’t call that ‘The Hit List’, I would simply call it…’Friends of Glissando’ List”
Alex, it’s like this: You – Leonardo da Vinci. Vancouver City Hall – Your ‘Last Supper’ Fresco.
Gregor the Immaculate sits in the middle, dispensing truths.
12 Apostles (10 from councillor descent, one from city staff descent and one from his own collection of friends) sit to his left and to his left of the left. Andrea, Heather and Suzanne are dressed in man clothes. One Apostle has been removed and replaced by Penny. She is wearing her own attire. Raymond is trying hard to untie his rope and free his hands from behind, Meggs is whispering in Gregor’s ear while looking devilishly towards Tim who doesn’t feel good in a shrug, sandals and no make-up at all. Kerry’s facial expression tells the story of ‘an outhouse too far’ and David cannot for the Son of God remember what was next in line for his annual dying rotation – hair or beard.George sits farthest from the Light and would die for a Margarita and maybe a little Bingo. Speaking of refreshments, there’s Magee fondling a pint of Blond Ale. The writing on the glass it says ‘Ellen’. Well, that figures it.
Keep on painting Alex, till we find out who the Judas is, I’ll keep you company with my Harp. 12 strings nevertheless.
We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.
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And a twelve string harp? Marvelous.
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Glissy, fantastic.
Yes, Alex VV will now pull out the stops to shut you up.
Any chance the person who leaked the hit list will reveal themselves.
We live in Vancouver—what is left of it.
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I don’t know. I’m begging him to do so, but he’s (understandably) scared.
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Alex I just heard you on CKNW with Jon McComb. YOU WERE FANTASTIC!
You made the Mayor look like the fool he is.
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Very kind. I enjoy Jon’s program, he’s top notch.
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Alex,
Long time reader (way back to 24 Hrs where you were the only good thing about that paper) and first time commenter.
In regards to Gregor’s denials (and I haven’t heard his full interview on Bill Good, just snippets on news briefs and on The World Today), I noticed that he hasn’t said point blank that the hit list is wrong and/or a lie (simply because he can’t). He’s used weasel words like pathetic, preposterous.
Well, while it may be silly, it doesn’t magically make it not true because he says so, as much as he’d like to think it does. I find it preposterous that I can’t enter the Miss Teen USA competition (FYI: I’m male, Canadian, not a teen, and can definitely afford to lose more than a few pounds!) but simply because I find it silly, it’s definitely not wrong.
All of this makes me wonder (and sorry if this is slightly off topic) with the BC Liberals seemingly sinking faster than the Titanic, and I wonder if the marvellous Carole Taylor can’t even save it, what if she decided to run for Mayor under the NPA banner? She was courted before, but it should be a definite cake walk this time. With all the Vision blunders, it’s almost like God or some sort of higher deity is saying, “Carole, the Mayor’s chair is yours for the taking”.
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From your mouth to God’s ears…
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Alex,
Great story. I heard golden boy’s attempted explanation on Bill Good’s show on Thursday morning and laughed out loud.
2005 – Anybody but Jim Green.
2008 – Anybody but Sam Sullivan.
2011 – Anybody but Gregor Robertson.
Vancouver Civic Politics is a pathetic affair isn’t it?
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It seems that way, certainly…sad really…
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Hmmm – A balding, closeted, fat, racist penguin eh! You would be a rare bird indeed, and one that the tree-huggers at Vision would be overly protective of, I should think. They are becoming increasingly intolerant of certain subsets I think. Should be careful where they go with this, I could be offended with some of these epithets, though I ain`t gonna tell which ones!
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Too funny…
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