While Donna is excited to finally be able to vote, I must admit that I am at an all time low in faith in our elections. I like to coddle myself with delusions about how different we are from Florida: How scandal doesn't stand in Canada. I love to point the finger at the Bush administration and call them a banana republic. But how much better are we?
Here in Vancouver we had a recent mayoral election that stank. It stank and nothing happened. We had over a dozen candidates, but in earnest it came down to two: Sam Sullivan and Jim Green. Pretty clear, except that we had another guy named James Green running. Same name right Jim and James. Except of course that James comes before Jim (alpha order).
Here is the stinky part. Sam won by less than 4000 votes and James got over 4000 votes. James did very little to advertise and came in third. Try a google image search for Jim Green Vancouver and Jim pops up to the top. For James Green Vancouver, the closest I got was a picture of a fish at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Worse, it has been reported that Sam helped James' candicy. True or False? I don't know, but I know it stinks. I also know that nothing is happening about it. No by election. No concession from the "leader".
All this is happening as we go into a federal election that stinks.
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