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
Thursday, October 03, 2002
Looks like you'll have George Puil to kick around for a while yet... but at least he seems to enjoy the kicking, in his own weird way. He admits that there is no good reason for him to run for council again (he might have been joking; it's so hard to tell) except that it does get him out of the house and out of the wife's hair. Take it for what you will.
Puil, incidentally, admitted some responsibility for the 2001 Vancouver bus strike, but said that he and his councilmates had no choice but to take the action that they did.
The right-leaning civic party had already nominated current city councillor Jennifer Clarke as its mayoral candidate earlier this year.
In her speech to the NPA faithful, Jennifer Clarke criticized her two main mayoral opponents for a lack of experience, saying that "you can't decide on Monday to become Mayor on Friday." She also claimed that she had never actually met any of her mayoral rivals with the exception of Marc Emery, who apparently frequently comes down to city hall to talk about his favourite issue.
Clarke later clarified her statement to mean that she had never seen either Larry Campbell or Valerie MacLean at any civic function.
She doesn't seem to take to media scrums well, though; she scurried off at the suggestion of one.
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