[Busriders-van] Ideas for Puil anti-election posters

[darren.abramson at shaw.ca]

Don't forget about the "vehicle levy" that 90 percent of the Lower Mainland hates about as much as Mulroney's GST!!!  

Remember though that Puil wasn't the only one.  We need to communicate with the suburbs to ensure that T/L board reps who presided over the lockout are ALL defeated.  In Port Moody, Meghan Lahti was on the board at the time, as a Tri-City rep, and she didn't even bother to show up for the open-house meetings last fall during the "It's Time To Choose [between signing a blank cheque and bowing to the will of Translink]" campaign.  Even in Vancouver (who have three reps on the board), there is also Jennifer something or another, as well as Helen something in New West, a couple from Burnaby, and then McCallum et al (I actually don't find McCallum so bad, myself, but he was on the board during last summer's 'let's sit on our hands until we break the union' campaign).  I have the complete list at home (I'm remote right now) and will post it to the list soon, unless somebody beats me to it.  

We need to campaign widely against ALL of last summer's board members who are seeking reelection this fall, and do all we can to ensure they get fired!  Don't limit posters to East-side bus shelters and Skytrain stations.  Does the BRU have access to funds for newspaper ads in the community papers (the Courier -- Newsgroup papers, or the Westender -- Van-Net)?  I assume the Vancouver Sun/Province is out of our budget constraint.

We can poster near 98 B Line stops, Park and Rides, even notice boards in shopping malls and grocery stores, universities and colleges, etc.

I like the idea of Puil in the Tug-O-War with an old woman, but let's make it more dramatic:  give her a walker, cane or even a wheelchair, and torn rag-clothes to emphasize the matter.  How about a pregnant woman who is chasing a bus because she has to wait a full hour for the next one because of service cutbacks (Puil is the driver)?  How about a bartender or restaurant employee caught downtown because the Owl Service no longer exists, and a cab costs a night's wages?  Puil can be the cabbie with dollar signs for eye pupils?  Then there is the bus driver who lost his job (driving the owl buses) and is forced to sell his house....

The most important thing is to get the affluent car-loving West side (and West end) on side.  THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!!!


-D

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Shewchuk <JimShew at triata.com>
Date: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:17 pm
Subject: [Busriders-van] Ideas for Puil anti-election posters

> Hello everyone,
>    Just a few thoughts:
>        -- make a slight alteration to one of graphics in Graphics 
> link from
>            web page.
>                (have Puil and old woman in tug-of-war over a bus 
> pass...)        -- bring up the property tax increase for transit 
> (Gets the rich against
>            him too...)
>        -- And of course the obvious one:  Last year's bus 
> shutdown and
>           his 'buck passing' at the Translink meetings...
> 
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