We Was Framed!

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The $100 million dollar Olympic Village bailout boondoggle saga is getting weirder and weirder.....

Because now NPA mayoral candidate Peter Ladner is saying that he and stablemate, B.C. Lee, were 'set-up'.

Monte Paulsen, in the increasingly go-to 'Hook' blog at the Tyee, has the story.

And it is truly bizarre:

A sensitive document assigned to NPA Coun. Peter Lander (sic) went missing for two days after the Oct. 14 in-camera meeting at which Vancouver City Council approved loaning up to $100 million to the developer of the Olympic Village at Southeast False Creek.

The document, which was later found in NPA Coun. B.C. Lee’s office, is suspected of being the mystery source on which The Globe and Mail based a Nov. 6 report that broke news of the city bail-out.

“B.C. Lee and I have been set up on this,” said Ladner, who is the Non-Partisan Association candidate for mayor.

Ladner’s version of events is as follows:

“We had a closed meeting... The meeting consisted of all the councilors and a number of senior city staff,” Ladner said. He refused to say whether or not Finance Director Estelle Lo was present at the Oct. 14 in-camera meeting.

“Every councilor was given a numbered document,” Ladner said. “We were asked to leave the documents behind” prior leaving council chambers.

“At the end of the meeting, I put my document on the table, and left the meeting, and was seen leaving the meeting with nothing in my hands. As was B.C. Lee,” Ladner said.

“Two days later, the document with my number on it appeared on his desk, after he left his office unlocked,” Ladner said.....

Looks to me like somebody's popsicle-stand doth runneth over with melting merchandise.

Or some such thing.

OK?

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And as for the framing of the frame....well, that came earlier today from Vision councillor Tim Stevenson.

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