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After the big 'unveiling' on Thursday we still don't know whose bag of money is paying for the attempted resurrection of British Columbia's Soccer Party.
After the big 'unveiling' on Thursday we still don't know whose bag of money is paying for the attempted resurrection of British Columbia's Soccer Party.
Which, at this point at least, isn't too surprising.
However, we do know at least one the pols behind the curtain.
From Katie DeRosa's CBC piece:
So.
I guess Mr. Allam deserves a few points for doing the right thing after Mr. Falcon sold out to the Whackaloons and refused to let go of the desiccated reins of GordCo 4.0.
But don't go making like Robin Zander and start humming 'We're all alright! We're all alright!" just yet.
Because Mr. Allam also ran the horses for Ken Sim's big politically expedient ABC win last time out in the CoV and then became the Sim Admin's chief of staff during its first 100 days.
And those of us living here know how that has turned out.
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However, we do know at least one the pols behind the curtain.
From Katie DeRosa's CBC piece:
..."We're here today because Kevin Falcon still refuses to resign as leader," said Kareem Allam, a political strategist with Richardson Strategy Group.
Allam worked on Falcon's leadership campaign in 2022, but publicly backed the B.C. NDP during October's provincial election.
He said the anger many still feel for the way Falcon unilaterally threw in the towel could be channeled into "momentum and energy that can drive into the centrist party."...
So.
I guess Mr. Allam deserves a few points for doing the right thing after Mr. Falcon sold out to the Whackaloons and refused to let go of the desiccated reins of GordCo 4.0.
But don't go making like Robin Zander and start humming 'We're all alright! We're all alright!" just yet.
Because Mr. Allam also ran the horses for Ken Sim's big politically expedient ABC win last time out in the CoV and then became the Sim Admin's chief of staff during its first 100 days.
And those of us living here know how that has turned out.
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Klout Klub?...Well, after all, we're talking about a potential GordCo 5.0 here...And then there is the fact that, when he went 'rogue' after Mr. Falcon's Whackaloonery, Mr. Allam invoked the names of ....wait for it...Mark Marissen and Diamond Isinger as being involved in the 'political realignment' when he spoke to Olamide Olaniyan of the Tyee last fall.
For more on the good Mr. Allam's M.O. as a pol, including his, and I'm quoting here, 'deliberately provocative' approach to demographics, check out Bob Mackin's excellent 2023 piece.
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1 comment:
Oh politics; why is it the same retreads never retire?
My take; as Rustad's Maple MAGA's, slowly implode, those not fully in the Conservative clown car want their own vehicle to play in.
Even though Vision(less) Vancouver provincial won the election with David Eby at the helm, there are serious financial issues in all major ministries as Eby has not fully read the economic tea leafs.
We are in deeply troubled times with the Mango Mussolini running the show down south and the province/country are in for bad times.
Financial prudence will be the key word post Aprils election and promises made today will be put on hold.
Those needless transit projects such as the $16 billion expansion of SkyTrain and the now $5 billion Massey tunnel replacement and even the $10 billion rebuilding of HWY1, are just a small example of government building monuments to themselves.
What needs to be done is not being done as those in power are focused on the current land rush/densification/profiteering plans, rather than doing anything constructive.
Incompetence, greed, and corruption rules the day in BC politics, so what is another politcal party wanting to join the fun be any different?
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