SOUTH OF Burrard Inlet,
you may have noticed, an
amazing political drama —
or at least a soap -— is un-
folding.

The old pinko warhorse,
Harry Rankin, is running for
mayor of Vancouver.

As everyone knows, Rankin
has been waging his guerrilla
struggle for left-wing causes
since the Dirty Thirties. A folk
hero to some, he is as royal pain
in the ass to many others.

In any event, after balking at
risking his aldermanic seat by
taking a run at the top municipal
job for so many years, Harry has
finally lumbered into the ring.

It seemed for a while, if the
pundits are to be believed, that
Harry was virtually a shoo-in for
the mayor's office.

Then the scandalous
started to surface.

Ht turns out that while climbing
into the mayorality arena, he was
also climbing into somebody's
bed.

“Dirty Harry’? admits he has
been sleeping with a female Van-
couver parks commissioner for
several months. ¢ guess he was
feeling tis oats. Anyway, the old
goat Izft his wife of three de-
cades, moved out of the house,
and shacked up with the commis-
sioner,

Heckuva way to start your
election campaign, Harry!

His wife is reportedly putting
on a brave face. She actually
went ahead with an annual
beekyard picnic with all their
f friends and political cronies and
the media. She got up and made
a nice speech about how Harry’s
the best man for the mayor’s job,
and she’s behind him 100 per
cent.

She didn't call him a rat or
anything.

Not many jilted wives would
be so magnanimous. Here she is,

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strictly personal ®

a woman scorned, a discarded
wife who gave him the best years,
ete., coming to the lecherous old
rogue’s support in public.

{In her heart, poor soul, she
probably hopes that if she just
stays cool, the fink might come
back to her.

Of course, there's a political

. undercurrent here that runs

deeper than all the steamy Peyton
Place who's-sleeping-with-whom
material.

People on the Left are suppas-
ed to be more liberated than
others.

Theoretically, Left-wing voters
won't be swayed against Dirty
Harry just because he’s “living in
sin,’’ ho, ho, with somebody, |
mean, go ahead, throw the first
stone, fellow traveller!

*...While being grilled
by a committee to see if
I was worthy of one of
the other groups’
endorsement, somebody
shot the question at me:
‘When was the last time
you Slept with another
woman??”’

ECT

Socialists don’t believe in sin,
anyway.

Still, I personally find it all a
bit ironic, having plotted briefly
with Harry many years ago,
when | was young and naive and
still a socialist, to take over City
Hall.

[ was going to run for the of-
fice of mayor of Vancouver on
an environmental ticket. Back
then we are talking the late "60s-
ecology was still seen as purely a
Left-wing cause.

The NDP, as it turned out, was
looking for a candidate to back
who might also be acceptable to
Harry Rankin’s Committee of
Progressive Electors, COPE.

—

Somehow ,
fit the bill.

The sain powerbroker in all
this was Harry, the COPE
kingpin. | had to go down and
have lunch with him at the Ter-
minal City Club to discuss my
platform.

The meeting was a disaster. |
don't remember if I ever actually
gota word in edgewise, but the
name of the game quickly
became clear. Harry was telling
me what to think, what to say,
how to say it, and what definitely
not to say.

My great visions for an en-
vironmental crusade somehow
got left off the agenda, except to
the extent that the ‘‘pollution
issue’ fitted in with Harry's
brand of Marxism.

Later, while being grilled by a
committee to see if 1 was worthy
of one of the other group’s en-
dorsement, somebody shot the
question at me: ‘‘When was the
last time you slept with another
woman?’’ As it so happened, it
hadn't been that long ago.

The committee’s point was that
a candidate had to be squeaky
clean to run. { dug it. | wasn’t in-
terested in this kind of public
scrutiny, thanks. If saints were
what was required, I wasn’t their
man.

they thought bo might

Given this and the horrifying |

thought of having autocratic old
Harry as my political boss, I got
out of politics before | even
entered.

That was nearly 20 years ago.
Harry, not one to let go, is still at
it. It’s just that his Last Hurrah
turns out to be the sound of
whoopee. Ard that’s going to
cost votes.

As a committed socialist, he
should be putting the good of the
Party ahead of his own ambi-
tions, shouldn't he? He should
step aside and let a less randy
candidate with fewer warts take
over.

Fat chance!

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