Toronto 2010 Council races

Augustus wrote:

The point is that it is not acceptable for someone to be having multiple relationships with other people when they have a permament partner at home.

It could be that the permanent partner knows and approves - not that that's what happened here but it could.

Not to cheaply Tory-bash, but wasn't it sort of similar with Mike Harris, Sharon Dunn, etc?

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Spotted at City Hall today: A Layton.
No, not Jack -- his 31-year-old environmentalist son, Michael, who visited the monthly council meeting to drum up support for a possible run in Joe Pantalone's old fiefdom.
Layton the younger is weighing a bid in Ward 19 Trinity-Spadina, one of the few municipal ridings without an incumbent in the 2010 race. (Mr. Pantalone has said he won't parachute back into the council race if his mayoralty bid falters.)
Michael, the deputy outreach director for Environmental Defence, has lived in the ward west of downtown most of his life. He's been busy meeting with local groups since Mr. Pantalone announced he's running to replace David Miller.
Michael expects to make his final decision in the next couple of weeks.

Ken Chan, Smitherman's former aide and lickspittle, is now officially running in Ward 27.
Chan has returned to Toronto after a stint working for BoJo in London.
Bad enough that Smitherman looks set to be Mayor but do we really need Smithers on council as well?

Mike Layton has scheduled an event (dubbed "A Toast to Trinity-Spadina and the City of Toronto") on March 5 and indicated that he has news to share.

Yup ten candidates, and with September seven months away the list is bound to grow.It would be interesting to see how the vote might split and the victor getting elected with like 20% or something.

Mammoliti's seat isn't far behind with seven hopefuls.

Also it seems that the defeated Nippissing PC '07 provincial candidate is running against Perks in ward 14.

I will be there at KWT's party tonight. Oakham House 55 Gould Street at 6pm. If anyone is going let me know, and come and say hi to me if you like.

I've known Kristyn for years and she is a kick-ass activist and advocate. 

TheEtobian, no...the Bill Vrebosch who's running against Gord Perks in Ward 14 isn't the same Bill Vrebosch who is the mayor of East Ferris and ran against Monique Smith in '07. He is the other Bill Vrebosch's son, however.

My councillor, Joe Mihevc, is running unopposed so far. 

Sounds like a smart move, actually. It's not going to be the best election for progressives and being a school trustee is a great place to start for next time.

In a word NO. There is no comparison. Tam Goosen had a big following in the NDP and was backed by a lot of people in the NDP and there was that very divisive nomination battle etc...and there was a third person like Adam Vaughan benefitting from the situation. My impression is that Karen Sun doesn't have nearly the following that Tam Goosen had, the Chinese population in ward 19 is almost non-existent (they are much more concentrated in ward 20). She also (as far as i know) has no ties at all to the NDP and may even be a Liberal so whatever support she gets will be from the usual big "L" Liberals.

I looked up the demos of that ward. Its interesting that while pantalone has been the councillor there for so many years - only 2% of the ward residents speak Italian. A little over 10% speak Portuguese and a little under 10% speaks some Chinese language - but the overwhelming majority are anglos.

I guess that what will be interesting in Ward 19 is whether the local Liberals try to set someone up to run who has ties to Smitherman and to the Ianno clan or whether they just sit this one out.

Is no one interested in Toronto elections now that NDP'ers first pick Giambrone has self-destructed?

Here are links to how many are running in various wards and who:

http://meslin.wordpress.com/

http://app.toronto.ca/vote2010/index.jsp

... and about Karen Sun: http://www.karensun.ca/

and the bountiful other ward 19 candidates: http://ward19.ca/ (Himy Syed), http://www.mikelayton.ca/ (heir apparent?),

 Hot races beginning everywhere.....

Yeah, and apparently his executive assistant will run in his ward instead.

Augustus wrote:

Yes, Giambrone's executive assistant is preparing to run in Davenport.  As some may recall, his assistant is the one who had to finish reading the speech that Giambrone was unable to cope with.

The page of his statement had been mistakenly left on the printer. That's why he didn't finish it.

Augustus wrote:

Gimabrone's decision to quit municipal politics is the best decision he has made so far this year.  He has been involved in an unending series of controversies, and has become almost as much of an embarrassment to his party as Helena Guergis is to hers.

Nice try, but Giambrone is in the non-partisan Toronto City council. There is no caucus. The only one he can embarrass is himself. Unlike Guergis who is a federal Tory cabinet Minister and icon. Its also absurd to compare having an affair and possibly questionable $10 taxi chit - with cavorting with drug dealers and biker gang members and insulting an entire province.

OldManActivist wrote:

Most Liberal types sided with the lefty Millerites.

With the exception of Mammoliti (and yes I know he was an NDP mpp, but his last membership was with the federal Liberals)

Yes of course Toronto (Megacity)city councillors have party affiliations or at least affinities, it is a political body after all, so naturally there will be some semblance of partisanship. However all councillors are elected as independants, without any official partisan affiliation. Yes of course they may or may not have partisan ties but they do not run under party banner. Other municipalities do have parties Vancouver and Montreal for instance, and even then they are strictly municipal parties with municipal issues geared platforms and ideology. When I recieve my ballot it's just the candidates names and no parties after them,  there are no party whips and councillors are not seated by party affiliation and so on and so forth.

Additionally my councillor Mark Grimes (Ward 6 Etobicoke--Lakeshore) is often described by the media as centre right and supports the Mayor a good deal of the time.

I think above all in the Megacity council nine times out of ten the members of the Megacity council will do what they think is best for the constiuents or their respective wards and to an even larger degree what's good for their respective (former) constiuent municipality. If they do otherwise they're out of a job and out on their ass.

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Augustus wrote:

Yes, Giambrone's executive assistant is preparing to run in Davenport.  As some may recall, his assistant is the one who had to finish reading the speech that Giambrone was unable to cope with.

The page of his statement had been mistakenly left on the printer. That's why he didn't finish it.

One normally checks to make sure one has all the pages of a speech before presenting it.

Or at least that's what I do.

I certainly will, and I think most of the public has as well.

It reflects on his ability to be a leader and handle important matters and crises.  If you can't even make sure you have all the pages of your speech ready, you can't exactly make the case that you can run a city.  

There is a lack of maturity which concerns Toronto voters.  It's the same type of problem that was reflected in the pushups in his office video he posted on YouTube.  He is not ready for prime time and he wisely realized that this week.

Let's make the removal of an industrial waste pollutant and the 500 million cost to taxpayers in Toronto's water supply an election issue. It's called HFSA-an industrial waste pollutant achieved from brushing off the stalks from the phosphate fertilzer industry in Florida and China. Each 40,000 truck load of HFSA carries up to 8lbs of LEAD and 1 lb of ARSENIC. City Council is simply calling it "Fluoride" but this is a GROSS and DECEPTIVE name for what it actually is and why it's being masked in an industrial waste product. Why aren't any of the candidates speaking? Local Environmental and Social Justice groups including the Regenesis project, Citizens for Safe drinking water, Toronto Council of Canadians, and people for the environment have joined on to the Toronto Coalition Against Fluoridation (TCAF) to educate the candidates and their constituents, including a presentation for potential savings to tax payers. They are not talking. Do they think this is a fringe issue that will loose your support? Do they think you lack the intelligence to understand what this issue really means for your health and wasted tax dollars?

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