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From Facebook.comA local environment advocate and frequent political candidate will be barred from running in the next municipal contest.

Ben West failed to file his campaign financing disclosure statement for the 2008 municipal elections, in which he came within 10 votes from becoming director of the anomalous Electoral Area A.

After years in student politics, West has run in virtually every federal, provincial or municipal election in the region since 2005.

He ran for the mayor's seat in Vancouver that year, finishing well back, but in front of anyone not named Sullivan or Green.

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