THE SILENT SIX

In the Olympic Village debacle and fallout, little mention has been made of the unavoidable fact that six of the current 10 Councillors (Anton, Cadman, Chow, Louie, Deal and Stevenson) were all at the table when this cow-plop was originally conceived and signed.

What's the mystery? Where's the information?

Here's what we're looking at, kids.

A group of elected officials, none of whom has ever sold batteries or run a cafe, get in bed with not one but two large business groups (Millenium and Fortress) and, of course, sell the farm. They know not what they do and they understandably get their clocks cleaned. They get taken, hosed and bagged by men in suits who are falling over backwards, biting off the ends of their Upman cigars, coughing in their martinis, laughing until the sickness comes.

All of which would be mildly amusing or good for a short SNL sketch were it not for the tiny detail that this is public money these rubes have signed away. Your money and my money, earned by working every day, and paid in the hundreds of thousands of taxes we face - property, sales, tires, gas and so on...

Now, the City is begging the Premier to write a new law that will allow Vancouver to borrow - what? - half a billion dollars in the worst economy in 50 years to cover its sorry ass.

The Prime Minister has said, "No Mas."

The Premier is mute.

But Standard & Poor is speaking. They say the City's credit rating is "on watch," as in, "watch out, suckers."

Now, new Council member Geoff Meggs is saying that if the City's credit rating is in fact downgraded it should be called the Sam Sullivan Legacy.

That's fine.

It's true that Crazy Sam was too busy with his personal obsessions, like organizing private foundations to give drug addicts pills, to attend to anything as mundane as CITY BUSINESS.

BUT.

As I said at the beginning of this post, 6 of the current 10 Councillors, honorable men and women all, were PRESENT AND VOTING at the execution.

What do they have to tell us?

When will they admit their roles in what is shaping up to the worst mismanagement ever enacted on this city by a sitting council in history?

If voters had known the true scope of this pile of poo before November, would any of these 6 have been re-elected?

I now officially name them.

THE SILENT SIX.

First to speak get's a lollipop.

(The foto, by the way, is called "Welcome to Frozenville, a Town Without Equipment.")