Bigtop-A-Palooza

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It looks like the NPA tent just might get bigger.

Way bigger.

And we're not talking about that little town in Saskatchewan.

Because Sean Holman is reporting that Vancouver Downtown Eastside activist Jamie Lee Hamilton has significant support behind her effort to secure one of the party's nominations for Parks Board.

Which would be pretty interesting, not to mention downright entertaining, if it were to happen.

And from a big picture point of view it also suggests that the group some like to call the Developer's 'Cash Cow Coalition Party' (CCCP) truly is trying to broaden* it's base.

But, then again, others might surmise that what it actually means is that they are having a heckuva time scaring up viable candidates.

Speaking of which.....if Peter Ladner really is in trouble re: the party's mayoral nomination, it would be interesting to contemplate the possibility of a total NPA implosion if he were to accept an offer from a group of folks with Vision for a centrist councillor's slot with expanded responsiblities for, say, alternative transit development and pre-Olympic bike-a-thons**.

Not that we want to be giving Mr. Ladner free political advice.....we're just suggesting that he might have considerably more leverage with the CCCP's backroom boys than he realizes.

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*Pun not entirely unintended.
**If such a thing were to happen nobody could fault you if you were to lay down a big fat a wager betting that Fast Eddie G's Masonary Man will be the last to break the story six weeks after the fact.

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