Intentions To Run For Mayor
In late 2006 he announced his aspiration to run for mayor in the next Vancouver civic election because of his concerns for respect, global warming, homelessness and lack of affordable housing. In August 2007, he announced that he no longer intended to participate in the mayoral race.
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Famous quotes containing the words intentions, run and/or mayor:
“Good intentions are met with good recompense.”
—Chinese proverb.
“beauty is like piety—you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have them register their names in each ward, and then appoint certain thoroughfares in the city for their use, that those who feel no need of this envelopment of curling vapor, to insure protection may be relieved from a nuisance as disgusting to the olfactories as it is prejudicial to the lungs.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)