To the editor:
Re: "Ex-NPAers start their own Vancouver party," June 19.
What a strange irony! For years, the NPA and its pro-development, pro-business fellow travellers with their poor record on consultation and respect for residential neighbourhoods, controlled civic politics in Vancouver.
The Electors Action Movement (TEAM) was formed largely to block this trend and specifically a proposed flyover freeway through downtown.
In 1972, Art Phillips was elected mayor and the new TEAM team included people like Mike Harcourt and Darlene Marzari.
That election marked an abrupt end to NPA policies.
How sad, but how typically cynical, that NPA politicians have grabbed the name of the party that turfed them out in 1972.
Don Maas, Vancouver
