Comments for Sean Bickerton

Comment on Happy New Year! by Didi & Lil Darling

Didi & Lil Darling — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:55:48 +0000

Sean, darling,
Didi & Lil know – if nothing else – FABULOUS!
And you, darling, are most certainly that. Across the tenses.You’ve been Gorgeous.
If there’s any little thing we can help out with in your promising Artist Manager project, we’d be delighted to lend our Joie de Vive. After all, many have referred to us as artistes, and countless men have attempted to manage us.
Care to give The Darling Sisters a go, darling?
Kisses!
Didi & Lil Darling

Comment on Happy New Year! by Bill McCreery

Bill McCreery — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:07:24 +0000

I wish you well in your near term ventures Sean. I hope you will remain civically politicly engaged. You have a great deal to offer Vancouver, and she needs you.

Comment on Happy New Year! by Sean Bickerton

Sean Bickerton — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:37:07 +0000

Thanks Susan! It’s a joy returning to my first love! Happy New Year to you & the Chuckster, and let’s hope its a great one for all of us!

Comment on Happy New Year! by Susan Weiss

Susan Weiss — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:35:58 +0000

Sean, congrats and “rock on!”

2012 will be awesome and you are AWESOME!

The Langley Community Music School is so lucky to have you on their team. With little or no music in our schools, a Community Music School is one way to ensuring sustainability in the arts and music for future generations.

Now that you are back on “the cultural diet” keep moving forward!

Big Hugs to you and Tom!

Susan xoxo

Comment on Happy New Year! by Sean Bickerton

Sean Bickerton — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:32:17 +0000

Thanks Frances – it’s the best friendships that remain!
xoxo
sean

Comment on Happy New Year! by Frances Hui

Frances Hui — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:19:39 +0000

Sean, you ROCK and I LOVE YOU!

Best wishes to you and Tom for all things good in health, love and work in 2012!

It’s due to politics that we met over 3 years ago so that’s one thing good that came out of our involvement with it!

Take care and hope to see you soon, xoxo

Comment on What Really Happened! by Bill McCreery

Bill McCreery — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:04:20 +0000

Well said Sean. I share your experiences, frustrations and disappointment. Vancouver is the lesser for this failure.

Comment on What Really Happened! by Scott

Scott — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:01:10 +0000

Sean,

You have a number of very valid points in this post and I thank you for voicing them. I also thank you for running for public office, it is a tough business and we are all better for your efforts!

I have a different perspective of what went wrong. I believe the NPA must become a real party to have any chance at beating our very organized opponents. Most elections are not won during the writ period they are won by doing work on the ground well in advance.

If the NPA can focus on building a bigger membership, engaging with its members on an ongoing basis and run one campaign not a group of individual campaigns. This will allow us to recruit and encourage good people to run for the NPA.

Lastly, we can not give up on Urban voters that live in communities built by various NPA administrations. I think it was a suburban mindset that did us in combined with our failure to connect those good policy ideas to our vision of the city.

Comment on What Really Happened! by Sean Bickerton

Sean Bickerton — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:03:19 +0000

Thanks Paul. I really liked the poll analysis you did. that helped!

Comment on What Really Happened! by Paul T.

Paul T. — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:31:46 +0000

I like what I’m reading in this post Sean. I think you’ve definitely got something here. Were the partisan’s vehemently against Vision, absolutely. Reflecting on this I can say I was definitely one of those partisans who still can’t help but feel ill that Gregor Robertson has another 3 years to run this city.

I will say that I’m happy we have our second councillor elected, so debate can’t be silenced by the Vision/COPE majority. There will have to be a vote, they will have to actually show their true colours. Good ideas will no longer be able to be cleared from the order paper as if they never happened. In this sense I don’t believe our efforts were a failure at all.

I’m also pleased that COPE was almost completely wiped out. COPE has been a strong voice in this city and under their agreement with Vision their voice of reason on several issues had been silenced. For me, anything that silences good debate is negative. I believe 2014 will be a much more interesting election.

I believe you are correct though, it is time for the NPA to band together with centre-right voters. Find common ground on as many issues as possible. Next election does not necessarily have to be fought with gimmicks. We’ll have strong representation with Councillors Ball and Affleck. They will create a strong framework for us to run on.

In the meantime we should all make ourselves available to all of our elected officials to help them over the next 3 years. Being in opposition isn’t easy, we can’t forget about them for 2 years and then expect them to win when the election rolls around.