I really hope Lorne Mayercourt is defeated in an embarrassing fashion

[HEyHEY]

He's such a tool.

[tuvor]

1. I remember getting a call from Tim Stephenson

when he was running for that riding, just before the last election. I like him a lot. He's a progressive gay Christian minister, which I think is really cool, but I had to tell him I simply wasn't going to vote NDP. I sensed in his reply that he knew his party was going to go down in flames. And they deserved it completely. (Remember Joy McPhail boasting that the NDP government was going to "spend their way out of debt"?)
:wtf:

But Mayencourt was simply lucky to be in the right place at the right time. A box of shit would have beaten the NDP in 2001. I'd like to say that Mayencourt's pretty much rested on his laurels the past four years, but don't you actually have to have earned laurels at least once in the first place?

[V. Kid]

2. Yes, he's a complete embaressment to the entire city.

Here's an intresting link:

http://www.vancourier.com/issues05/051205/opinion/051205op1.html

quoted snip:

In recounting the events to a reporter last weekend, Mayencourt said: "I don't care whether he's mentally ill or not. This incident was way, way beyond an aggressive panhandler."

After what Mayencourt now says was his seven-block pursuit through the West End that morning, the MLA tried to grab the guy-a citizen's arrest. He ended up getting slugged and his glasses were broken.

It is hard to determine, given the circumstances as described, which of the two men was off his meds.

and:

Last week he attacked Vancouver's safe injection site. Well, actually, he attacked the concept of the site. He said it was useless and a waste of money.

even though later in the article it says:

Illicit drug overdose deaths have decreased from 1991 in 1998 to 53 in 2004. New cases of HIV have dropped from 207 in 1997 to 95 cases in 2003. In 1996 there were 377 new cases of hepatitis C per 100,000 people. In 2003 that was down to 139 per 100,000.