De Genova Wants To Be Mayor, But Should He Be?

by Linda Solomon
“I never had a plan to be at this level,” Al De Genova told me when I asked him what from his childhood, or his past, had inspired him to public service and a bid to be Vancouver’s mayor.  “I worked in Chinatown selling paper products for Smith Papers and I became a project coordinator. I saw that Chinatown needed policing and a beautification program.”  Read the rest of this profile of De Genova on The Vancouver Observer.