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unusual facts about Sam Sullivan


Sam Sullivan

Sullivan took part in the Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics, in the ceremony where the Olympic Flag was passed from Turin to Vancouver.


Vision Vancouver

In the election for Vancouver City Council held in November 2005, four Vision Vancouver candidates (Raymond Louie, Tim Stevenson, Heather Deal and George Chow) were elected, but the party's mayoral candidate, Jim Green, was defeated by the Non-Partisan Association's Sam Sullivan.

The choices were Gregor Robertson (a local 'Green' businessman, owner of the Happy Planet juice company and a New Democratic Party Member of the Legislative Assembly for Vancouver-Fairview), Raymond Louie (serving Vision city councillor), and Allan De Genova (Independent Vancouver Park Board Commissioner who defected from the NPA because of his dislike of Sam Sullivan's leadership).

The original dynamic for this contest was changed when the NPA voted to replace as their mayoral candidate incumbent Sam Sullivan with longtime Councillor and businessman (editor of Business in Vancouver newspaper) Peter Ladner.


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