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Mayor Banman’s Leo awaits signatures of two members of \u00a0the committee charged with awarding the Leo before it can be placed into the mayor’s hands.<\/p>\n

The Leo\u00a0committee agreed with the nominators of Mayor Banman [The League of Unhoused Citizens of Abbotsford] that standing at the microphone at Cascade Church during the discussion held there on Abbotsford Community Services housing first proposal and crying how poor the city was and how it was up to senior levels of government to step forward with funding while, as pointed out by a citizen, to his immediate right were three representatives of BC Housing with $2,500,000 in capital costs and ongoing yearly funding for programs on the table that the Mayor is seeking to spurn.<\/p>\n

As Forrest Gump would say about Mayor Banman: “Stupid is as Stupid does.”<\/p>\n

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Mayor Banman’s Leo awaits signatures of two members of \u00a0the committee charged with awarding the Leo before it can be placed into the mayor’s hands. The Leo\u00a0committee agreed with the nominators of Mayor Banman [The League of Unhoused Citizens of Abbotsford] that standing at the microphone at Cascade Church during the discussion held there on Abbotsford Community Services housing first proposal and crying how poor the city was and how it was up to senior levels of government to step forward with funding while, as pointed out by a citizen, to his immediate right were three representatives of BC Housing with $2,500,000 in capital costs and ongoing yearly funding for programs on the table that the Mayor is seeking to spurn. As Forrest Gump would say about Mayor Banman: “Stupid is as Stupid does.”                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,13,45,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-homeless","category-issues","category-politics-the-issues"],"yoast_head":"\nLeo Award for Abbotsford's Mayor Banman - James W. Breckenridge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/?p=2984\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leo Award for Abbotsford's Mayor Banman - James W. 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