Beautiful, happy election night for the Horgan-led New Democrats in BC.  They   
   deserved the win after hanging by their fingertips for the past 3 1/2 years,   
   relying on the good graces of the Green Party.  Now we'll start to see the NDP   
   make the changes    
   they've promised for years - even before forming government.  Watch for the   
   day care rates.   
      
   Two ridings that I was glad to see go into better hands:     
   West Vancouver-Sea to Sky has gone Green!  It's a huge riding and it certainly   
   has lands that will need protecting; no better party than the Greens to do   
   that.   
      
   The other riding I was glad to see go from Liberal control to the NDP is   
   Vancouver-False Creek.  It has been in the hands of Sam Sullivan, one of the   
   biggest shysters ever elected to power in Vancouver.  If anyone has a good   
   memory, they know how he    
   managed to win the seat of Mayor back in 2005.     
      
   He did what Jason Kenney recently did:  supported a candidate with the same   
   name as the favoured candidate, Jim Green, to spoil the vote by confusing the   
   voters.     
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   Jim / James Green controversy   
      
   In the election, Sullivan ran against several candidates, the most prominent   
   of which was Vision Vancouver councillor Jim Green. Sullivan defeated Green by   
   a narrow margin of 3,747 votes of 130,000 ballots cast. A second, independent   
   candidate named    
   James Green also ran in this election, gaining over 4,000 votes. The close   
   margin of Sullivan's victory and the similarity of independent candidate James   
   Green's name to that of Sullivan's main opponent Jim Green led to a major   
   controversy.[20]    
   Speculation that James Green was a "spoiler" candidate was inflamed when it   
   became known that Sullivan had helped Green in a dispute about office   
   space.[21] No allegations were ever proven that Sullivan was supporting the   
   independent candidate James    
   Green, and both men denied any wrongdoing.   
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   Sam Sullivan was also the guy who bought drugs for street pals and then   
   watched (participated in?) their consumption of those drugs in his own van.    
   Yeah, real mayoral material . . .   
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   Here's how the story has been told so far. As a city councillor several years   
   ago, Sullivan said was he curious to learn more about drug addiction. He has   
   made no secret that he thinks addicts have a disability and that their   
   condition should be viewed    
   as an illness.   
      
   Sullivan admitted that on some occasions, he gave money to addicts, including   
   a sex-trade worker, so they could buy drugs and alleviate the symptoms of   
   their illness. Sullivan said that he once observed an addict buy drugs and   
   then watched him smoke    
   crack in his van.   
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   He's finally out - and good riddance.  I guess he couldn't rely on crack and   
   heroin addicts to get to the polls . . . .   
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   The win in False Creek, a riding Simon Fraser University political scientist   
   Stewart Prest called Vancouver’s “clearest battleground” for the 2020   
   election, was part of a very good night in the Lower Mainland for the B.C. NDP.   
      
   During the campaign, the B.C. Liberals seemed to “micro-target” certain   
   local issues like crime and safety, Prest said, and that strategy was on   
   display in False Creek. During the campaign, Sullivan took a “harder line”   
   on drugs than voters had    
   seen from him in the past, Prest said, including vocally opposing a plan   
   approved last week by Vancouver city council to open an overdose prevention   
   site in the riding.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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