Vision Vancouver has "no vision", Allan De Genova says
In 2008, Allan De Genova ran for the Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination. In 2010, he’s running as far away from the party as possible.
A five-term park commissioner with the Non-Partisan Association before being dumped from the caucus in 2006, De Genova told the Straight his Vision membership is "long gone".
"Vision has no vision," he said by phone. "They are about themselves. Their credibility is not worth anything, and they haven’t delivered on what they were going to do."
De Genova said he gets upset about the city’s homelessness problem whenever he drives downtown, claiming it is not improving. He noted that ending homelessness was one of Mayor Gregor Robertson’s major election promises.
Vision councillor Geoff Meggs told the Straight he was "sorry to hear" De Genova was no longer a member of Vision.
"I think, though, that Al was very disappointed in the outcome of the mayoralty race," Meggs said by phone. "I’ve understood that he’s been critical of some other things, so I am sorry that he has decided not to participate, but I am not surprised."
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glen p robbins
Sep 16, 2010 at 10:28pm
Having attended the Vision nomination, I thought that de Genova did well to round out the cast of nominees for Vision, and for mayor Robertson's (inevitable) campaign to follow.
It would be interesting to flesh out Mr. de Genova's rationale for feeling the way he does beyond the type of political rhetoric featured in this to brief to and fro.