On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Wednesday, October 09, 2002
Or, as he puts it, "On Nov. 16, Vancouverites can choose Lady Macbeth, the Better Business Bureau or Mayor Da Vinci."
Sullivan notes that voters often use civic elections to send a message to the provincial government of the day:
Annoyed by the lack of opposition to the Liberals in Victoria, voters may just decide to install the opposition in Vancouver and get it to kick a little proxy butt. It could be a real dilemma for the other Campbell (Premier Gordon).
The opposition (or certainly not the provincial government's puppets) is embodied in Vancouver by the left-leaning Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) and their mayoral candidate, former chief coroner Larry Campbell. There is a little bit of precedent for Vancouver voters installing civic governments that are ideologically opposed to the provincial government -- when the NDP was in power, Vancouverites supported overwhelmigly right-leaning politicians for civic office, almost as a check to the provincial government.
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