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   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   CBC News Posted: Nov 06, 2014   
      
   Michael Davis, former NPA president, joins Vision Vancouver campaign   
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   City Votes 2014   
      
   With less than two weeks before the municipal elections, former NPA president   
   Michael Davis has joined Vision Vancouver claiming the Non-Partisan Association   
   has become a party of narrow, angry people.   
      
   Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson introduced Davis at a news   
   conference Wednesday morning.   
      
   "The NPA has moved further and further to the right, a monochromatic party of   
   angry people afraid of losing what they have," said Davis. "It’s not so much   
   that I left the NPA, as the NPA left me."   
      
   Davis says back in its glory days, the NPA was a giant tent with room for   
   everyone, but now doesn't even have an open nomination process. He claimed the   
   batch of current candidates were appointed in a closed door session.   
      
   "Their qualifications are unknown, their promises unheard," said Davies. "Who   
   knows what was said?"   
      
   Robertson says he is "thrilled" to have secured Davis's endorsement.   
   NPA reaction: Good for him   
      
   When NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe was told Davis had changed sides he   
   replied, "OK, good for him."   
      
   Asked about Davis's characterization of the NPA as a party of narrow, angry   
   people, LaPointe said Davis should read the party's platform.   
      
   "I'm about feeding hungry children. I'm about a new dialogue to help deal with   
   the homeless, that a lot of our policies are quite progressive economically and   
   I'm sorry, I don't agree with that characterization."   
      
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