“Man buys copy of the Vancouver Sun from British Columbia’s Education Minister with a fresh $100 bill donation to the newspaper’s vital Raise-a-Reader literacy charity!”
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Admen reunite: Palmer (left) and Fassbender (newsroom.gov.bc.ca) |
If you follow B.C. politics, you probably know the man on the right is Peter Fassbender. He’s the rookie Surrey-Fleetwood BC Liberal MLA who was re-elected Mayor of the City of Langley in 2011 (a post held since July by Ted Schaffer who was chosen by the rest of council to serve the rest of Fassbender’s term).
Fassbender is a close friend of Deputy Premier Rich Coleman, who installed Fassbender as chairman of B.C. Pavilion Corporation, a post he held through the election.
Fassbender hit the streets on Sept. 25 to sell papers with news of a $500,000 donation from taxpayers to Raise-a-Reader, via Decoda Literacy Solutions, a spinoff of the secretive 2010 Legacies Now.
Donating a C-note to a newspaper’s charity is tame for Palmer. Last year, he dressed up as rapper Big Frankie P and recorded a track to benefit the National Advertising Benevelont Society, the ad industry’s self-help charity. You could say he went from rap to fish-wrap.
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