Jenny Kwan appears on her way to a big victory in Vancouver–Mount Pleasant

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      The senior member of the NDP caucus, Jenny Kwan, appears well on her way to victory in Vancouver–Mount Pleasant.

      With 18 of 173 ballot boxes counted, Kwan has 69.62 percent of the vote.

      B.C. Liberal Celyna Sia Shert is far back with 15.69 percent.

      Kwan was first elected to the legislature in 1996, taking over a seat previously held by former NDP premier Mike Harcourt.

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      Skeptical Reader

      May 18, 2013 at 4:55pm

      Jenny Kwan is that magical breed of "1%er Socialists." Her partner is paid a six figure salary as head of a "non-profit" company that is supposed to be helping in the DES. His salary is apparently justified because such work in the actual private sector would be paid a similar salary. Between the 2 of them their salaries, benefits & expenses must be over $400,000 per year: quite the take for people who are "committed to social justice."

      The NDP is run by a core of people making very good money indeed: check out some of the salaries in the labour movement and other supposedly "left" interests. These people are "true believers" who make very good money and keep it like good capitalists yet maintain the fiction that they are actually more interested in spreading wealth than accumulating it.

      Ur already dead

      Jun 30, 2013 at 10:43pm

      What are you saying the glibs owe more paid more involved in every tax sucking scheme imaginable while the others dream more join now and climb on board the bottom step of the con pyramid rise to the top even faster as they proved criminal