Green Party of Vancouver discloses campaign donations before NPA and Vision
The Green Party of Vancouver has so far raked in $46,387 in campaign donations ahead of the November civic election.
Less than a day after the NPA and then Vision Vancouver promised to release at least the names of their donors before election day, the Greens beat all of the other parties to the punch.
This Halloween morning (October 31), the Greens posted online a spreadsheet showing all donations worth $100 or more received by the party, council incumbent Adriane Carr, and school board candidates Mischa Oak and Janet Fraser at this point in the campaign.
"All donations to individual candidate campaigns will be posted as soon as they are provided," states a Green news release.
The Vancouver Fire Fighters union topped the list of party donors, making a monetary donation of $5,000. That's the maximum donation allowed by the Greens under a party policy.
Green secretary Paul George, Carr's husband, made the second largest donation, $3,600 in kind. Tami Carr, Carr's mother, gave monetary and in-kind donations worth a total of $2,700.
Fourth on the list, the Vancouver Taxi Association ponied up $2,500 in money. The fifth largest donor was listed as Ian MacKenzie, with a monetary contribution of $2,000.
Other notable donors on the party list include former Festival Cinemas president Leonard Schein, former independent council candidate Sandy Garossino, and former Cambie Street merchant Susan Heyes.
Meanwhile, Carr took in $8,600 in donations to her council campaign. Oak reported $1,650 in donations, and Fraser disclosed $800.
COPE has reportedly also pledged to disclose its donors' names and contribution amounts.
Comments
6 Comments
Ryan
Oct 31, 2014 at 10:40am
Who is Marlene Mackenzie? She donated $5000 to Carr.
Is it the Yacht Club member who lives in Surrey?
http://www.cbcyachtclubs.ca/members.htm
Pete Quily
Oct 31, 2014 at 12:34pm
Good Vangreens were the first Vancouver political party to be partially transparent by releasing who donated to them only for one of the 3 years since last election, namely 2014, but NOT 2012 or 2013.
Hope Vangreens will be soon be FULLY transparent and tell us citizens how much #darkmoney they raised. I.e. money they raised in non election years 2012 and 2013 that legally they can hide from Vancouver citizens thanks to corrupt bcliberals legislation.
But morally, and if they want to be transparent, and believe in open government vs partially open government, the vangreens and ALL other Vancouver political parties should tell us not just part of their donations but all of them, including the #darkmoney the raised in 2012 and 2013.
James Blatchford
Oct 31, 2014 at 1:13pm
I don't remember being this disappointed since the ending of Bambi...thanks for spoiling the movie, Pete.
Arthur Vandelay
Oct 31, 2014 at 1:59pm
If the City Greens ever get beyond friends and family donations, I'm fairly sure things will get a bit murkier.
Pete Quily
Oct 31, 2014 at 1:59pm
BC is so structurally corrupt that civic political parties do not have to declare expenses between elections i.e., #darkmoney thanks to the bc kleptocrats who's #2 donors after big resource companies are big real estate companies just like npa and vision
http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/LOC/freeside/--%20V...
We don't know how much money ALL the vancouver political parties raised because there is zero accountability between elections by vancouver politicians and political parties. Vision & the NPA could be taking in millions of dollars in Karl Rove & Koch brothers like Dark Money. Untraceable cash.
& its legal. Though not moral or ethical or transparent.
France Bula estimated NPA & Vision spent $2 million in #darkmoney last election
James Blatchford
Oct 31, 2014 at 6:44pm
Anonymous, well, for NPA, I'm sure all Francis has to do is ask Kirk LaPointe....Mr. Open and Transparent should be able to track down the precise number for the hardest working journalist on the city beat. Maybe Gregor would follow suit.