There’s a Maya Angelou quotation that has repeatedly been trotted out south of the border since U.S. President Donald Trump took office: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Close to home, that sentence could now be applied to Port Moody Coun. Rob Vagramov, who is seeking to unseat Mayor Mike Clay in the Oct. 20 civic election.
What Vagramov showed in a video that surfaced Tuesday and was shot in 2014 — the year he was elected to council — is troubling at best. In it, he uses a homeless man as a prop in a twisted “random act of kindness.”
There’s so much wrong in that short clip and it’s best summed up by one out of dozens of social media posts on the topic: “He exploited a vulnerable person for sport and then made shotgunning a beer a condition for receiving food.”
Vagramov hasn’t exactly apologized for the video but said this week he has learned much in the last four years on council.
It’s up to Port Moody voters to decide if they believe him this time, or the first time.
