Chief
08-30-2007, 01:41 PM
For nearly a decade since we moved here to Cascade Park, and first started making our initial political inquires, the name of Larry Patella has been around. I am presenting this information here at Clarkblog as a living reference manual for those who have eyes to read, and maybe understand who it is we are dealing with.
Larry is a retired US Navy Commander, and he never misses an opportunity to use his "Cdr., USN Ret". tag on the end of his many, many e-mialed missives that travel the wires around Cascade Park. I used to view Larry as a harmless older fellow who liked to thump his chest like Patrick Henry, and shout "Liberty or Death"!!
Lately Larry sounds more like Nikita Kruchev, shouting and banging on the posium with his shoe. He has become a one-hit wonder of negativism, and seems to fit in very comfortably with the Representative Jim Dunn school of "Just say NO!"
Anyone who knows Larry will tell you that he loves to talk (and frequently rail) about "The People's Hilton", as he refers to the Vancouver Hilton Hotel in downtown Vancouver. Patella has even been successful in sneaking that tagline into one of his frequent letters to the Editor in the columbian; to the point where they Editorial page had to issue a correction recently. To listen to Larry, you would think that the gravest injustice of all was incurred upon the people of Vancouver, by City Council, because that hotel was built without a vote by the people.
The real truth of the matter though is that we likely would not have a "People's Hilton" if Larry Patella had listened to someone other than himself, not once, not twice, but three different times. If Larry Patella had followed the Law, he would not have cost his close friends and associates nearly $60,000 cash money, to pay for a Lawyer to defend them all from a lawsuit that was brought against them by the City of Vancouver.
The details of that whole transaction are not widely known, nor widely discussed. I think it is time to take another look at exactly what went down back in 2001, and try to understand why, with so many spectacular failures on his record, does anyone continue to listen to anything that he says. Let us compare Larry Patella's performance on the "Vancouver Hilton" and see if we can draw some parallels between what happened then, and what happened with the defeat of the Port of Vancouver's IDD levy in the recent Special Election.
Further, let's closely examine the cast of characters who have been busy swigging bludgeons around in Vancouver's supposedly "Conservative" Politics.
My primary reference for this piece has been the paid archives at the columbian. You can do a search in their archive , and get a list of available topics, then select the pieces that you want to download. It's clean, and quite effective, and I spent a couple of hours up doing research. I paid for all of the articles that I am presenting in this Archive.
I also spent some time in the Clerk of the Superior Court's offices, viewing documents that are avialable through their online service.
At the Courthouse, there are two different cases that you need to know in order to dig up the official documents, trial records, motions and the judgements themselves. The first case is known as "City of Vancouver vs Citizens Committee of Petitioners" Civil Case number 01-2-02120-0. Judge Harris heard oral arguments from paid Counsel on that case on November 1, 2001 and handed down his ruling the same day.
The second case is by the same name, and the case number is 02-2-04221-3. Judge Johnson heard oral arguments on the case, with Larry Patella acting as his own counsel, on February 7, 2003, and she handed down her opinion on March 5 2003.
I was amazed that when I searched the columbian's archives, using only the keyword "Patella" and the year 2001, the system returned 67 hits! That means that Larry Patella's name appeared in the columbian better than once a week all year long. I have long asserted that Larry Patella is the columbian's most frequently published letter writer, and that fact is certainly borne out for 2001. However, his name (and others) appeared in a lot of News Stories as well.
I hope you'll take the time to review the information I'm presenting here, and I also hope this will knock a bit of wind out of the sails of Vancouver's biggest blowhard.
Stout Hearts!!
Chief
Larry is a retired US Navy Commander, and he never misses an opportunity to use his "Cdr., USN Ret". tag on the end of his many, many e-mialed missives that travel the wires around Cascade Park. I used to view Larry as a harmless older fellow who liked to thump his chest like Patrick Henry, and shout "Liberty or Death"!!
Lately Larry sounds more like Nikita Kruchev, shouting and banging on the posium with his shoe. He has become a one-hit wonder of negativism, and seems to fit in very comfortably with the Representative Jim Dunn school of "Just say NO!"
Anyone who knows Larry will tell you that he loves to talk (and frequently rail) about "The People's Hilton", as he refers to the Vancouver Hilton Hotel in downtown Vancouver. Patella has even been successful in sneaking that tagline into one of his frequent letters to the Editor in the columbian; to the point where they Editorial page had to issue a correction recently. To listen to Larry, you would think that the gravest injustice of all was incurred upon the people of Vancouver, by City Council, because that hotel was built without a vote by the people.
The real truth of the matter though is that we likely would not have a "People's Hilton" if Larry Patella had listened to someone other than himself, not once, not twice, but three different times. If Larry Patella had followed the Law, he would not have cost his close friends and associates nearly $60,000 cash money, to pay for a Lawyer to defend them all from a lawsuit that was brought against them by the City of Vancouver.
The details of that whole transaction are not widely known, nor widely discussed. I think it is time to take another look at exactly what went down back in 2001, and try to understand why, with so many spectacular failures on his record, does anyone continue to listen to anything that he says. Let us compare Larry Patella's performance on the "Vancouver Hilton" and see if we can draw some parallels between what happened then, and what happened with the defeat of the Port of Vancouver's IDD levy in the recent Special Election.
Further, let's closely examine the cast of characters who have been busy swigging bludgeons around in Vancouver's supposedly "Conservative" Politics.
My primary reference for this piece has been the paid archives at the columbian. You can do a search in their archive , and get a list of available topics, then select the pieces that you want to download. It's clean, and quite effective, and I spent a couple of hours up doing research. I paid for all of the articles that I am presenting in this Archive.
I also spent some time in the Clerk of the Superior Court's offices, viewing documents that are avialable through their online service.
At the Courthouse, there are two different cases that you need to know in order to dig up the official documents, trial records, motions and the judgements themselves. The first case is known as "City of Vancouver vs Citizens Committee of Petitioners" Civil Case number 01-2-02120-0. Judge Harris heard oral arguments from paid Counsel on that case on November 1, 2001 and handed down his ruling the same day.
The second case is by the same name, and the case number is 02-2-04221-3. Judge Johnson heard oral arguments on the case, with Larry Patella acting as his own counsel, on February 7, 2003, and she handed down her opinion on March 5 2003.
I was amazed that when I searched the columbian's archives, using only the keyword "Patella" and the year 2001, the system returned 67 hits! That means that Larry Patella's name appeared in the columbian better than once a week all year long. I have long asserted that Larry Patella is the columbian's most frequently published letter writer, and that fact is certainly borne out for 2001. However, his name (and others) appeared in a lot of News Stories as well.
I hope you'll take the time to review the information I'm presenting here, and I also hope this will knock a bit of wind out of the sails of Vancouver's biggest blowhard.
Stout Hearts!!
Chief