With 21 candidates out of 37 who didn’t get elected yesterday for Vision Vancouver, there’s a lot of disappointment out there. But different candidates are handling that disappointment differently, as you can see from emails that went out from two of them today to their supporters.
From: Facebook [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: September 21, 2008 3:50 PM
Subject: “Ray Lam [...]

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Council
3746 Raymond Louie
3704 Heather Deal
3271 Tim Stevenson
3248 George Chow
2988 Andrea Reimer
2951 Geoff Meggs
2387 Kerry Jang
2240 Kashmir Dhaliwal
2223 David Eby
2034 Heather Harrison
1717 Catherine Evans
1217 Rey Umlas
1127 Ray Lam
1094 Demitri Douzenis
1031 Vaune Adams Kobler
724 Doug Bencze
SCHOOL BOARD
2969 Sharon Gregson
2177 Mike Lombardi
2053 Patti Bacchus
1962 Ken Clement
1954 Stepan Vdovine
1881 Narinder Chhina
1846 Helesia Luke
1574 Anastasia Mirras
PARK BOARD
2602 Sarah Blyth
2242 Constance [...]

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There have been a few rumours floating around this week that the Non-Partisan Association approached several Vision candidates in previous weeks and asked them to consider switching parties, since they’d be guaranteed to get a slate spot.
I tracked down everyone whose name I heard mentioned in connection with that story here today and this is [...]

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Everyone owes me a drink for this labour of something or another: The complete list of candidates. I started to compile it because I realized that I was completely losing track of all the people popping on and off the list. As well, I wanted to get a handle on just how many Vision candidates [...]

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I’ve just had it confirmed that David Lee, a retired HSBC vice-president, will be running for the NPA council slate. Lee had been considering running strongly enough that he went out with NPA mayoral candidate Peter Ladner to some functions on Saturday but hadn’t decided at that point. But now he’s in. Still no word [...]

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