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Adrian Crook @adriancrook

22 hours ago
1/ When I first announced I was running for City Council in February, I pictured today: Sunday, Oct 21st. The day after the election.

What I thought about wasn't celebrating a victory or mourning a defeat. Instead, I envisioned who I wanted to be as a person on this date.

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Adrian Crook for Vancouver City Council

Adrian Crook for Vancouver City Council22 hours ago

When I first announced I was running for City Council in February of this year, I pictured today: Sunday, October 21st. The day after the election.

What I thought about wasn't celebrating a victory or mourning a defeat. Instead, I envisioned who I wanted to be as a person on this date. Specifically, I thought about how I could ensure that the effect of my campaign, personally and civically, was a positive one.

I knew I couldn't control the election result. But I could control how I conducted myself throughout. It's through that lens that I, along with my team, made all our choices in the intervening months.

Today, I am so thrilled to be proud of the campaign we ran.

My team, while tiny and unpaid, gave of their talents and expertise unselfishly.
My fellow Independent candidates are an inspiration to me and others.
Without exception, every person I met on the campaign trail enriched my life and taught me something about our amazing city.
My generous donors exceeded our fundraising goal, believing in me wholeheartedly.

And most humbling is the honour of over 17,000 Vancouver voters trusting me as one of their Council choices. Aside from earning a seat on Council, there's no way our campaign experience could have been any better.

A small group of us will sit down next week to do our campaign post-mortem, turning over the ins and outs of what we did right and wrong. But how we ran - positively, collaboratively, kindly - is a victory in and of itself.

Today I feel how I hoped I would feel, way back in February: like I'd jump at the chance to run again.

Thank you, friends, for believing in me.

Adrian Crook
www.voteadriancrook.com