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Apparently, when newly 'elected' Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan speaks it.
Here is the latest on the 'I never met/I did meet' James Green saga from from the CBC:
On Monday night, Sullivan was asked about the controversy by CBC TV's Ian Hanomansing.
"Some of our viewers wanted you to set the record straight. They'd like to know if you or your party had any connection with James Green or any connnection with his entrance in the mayoral race,"
"No, absolutely not," said Sullivan.
You got that. That was Monday.
And this was Tuesday:
"But now, the mayor-elect says he did talk to James Green after someone told him the independent was being bullied out of his campaign office by election rival Jim Green.
"I did what I thought I needed to do, to determine if Jim Green was bullying another candidate, as he had been bullying me." Sullivan says he discovered the story had no merit and he dropped it.
James Green happened to office space in the same building as Sullivan.
And Sullivan now admits he called the landlord to say that situation made him uncomfortable – but says he made that call after Green had been evicted.
At a news conference on Tuesday Sullivan was at a loss to explain why he was still interested in someone who was no longer there.
"Why would I ask about being uncomfortable, and at the same time ask why he had being evicted?"
"I don't know. You tell us," replied a reporter.
No, Mr. Sullivan. You tell the people of Vancouver.
Especially those who voted for you because you portrayed yourself as the honest one and smeared your opponent as having exactly the opposite characteristics.
And remember......It was that great truth teller, Christy Clark, who unintentionally (and without irony) demonstrated how low some pols will go when she stated:
"You can't steal an election in a democracy."
In other words, anything is OK as long as you win.
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For a blow-by-blow on how James Green's votes helped Jim Green lose see the chronological 'Election Night' posts on the sidebar. For the record, we called it at 9:10pm when James had only 300 some odd votes but still more than 5% that of Jim. At the same time Michael Smythe declared that James was not going to be a factor (I was yelling at the radio as I typed - the 'Blognoramity' of it all, ha!).
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