Juan_Lennon416
Senior Member
It would be nice to have a woman as mayor
It would be nice to have a woman as mayor
I sent him an email asking him not to vote for the strike settlement deal and I got back a boilerplate "thanks for your comments" email (although I did get it back very quickly). He also added me to his mailing list without asking me.
My parents emailed their councillor (Bill Saundercook) and, although he did later vote for the deal, he at least responded to their email with a list of reasons why he thought the deal was the right one for the city. I would have appreciated the same from Vaughan.
Perfect Candidate:
Mike Clemens!
He's got leadership skills - he can round up 46 grown men from different backgrounds and get them to work together. Successfully!
Hes' got excellent charisma and notoriety for electability purposes
Heavy community involvement
He's has experience running a large organization (Argos)
He'd get my vote.
And if anyone is 'qualified' to run a city, it would be someone with expereince in balancing the sensitive budgets and varied personalities that come with running a CFL team. And if you look through his bio, Clemens has probably had more community involvement in the last 20 years than any of the incumbents. Especially the Mayor
expect that we will have abandoned our civic duty if we manage to elect a former pro athlete as mayor
It goes both ways though. It may be ridiculous to vote for someone because they are a celebrity, but it is just as ridiculous to not vote for someone because they are a celebrity. As always, the main concern has to be what is the candidate advocating. I would vote for a mime if he/she was campaigning on a platform I agreed with. These identity politic issues (where a person lives, where they used to work, coke vs. pepsi...) are just background noise compared to larger issues.
Residents unhappy with Mayor David Miller's reign are taking it to the streets with a not-so-subtle sign campaign.
The bright yellow signs with black letters that shout "David Miller is an idiot!" have been springing up around the city this week.
Although the people behind the signs are on the mailing list and attended some organizing events of the Toronto Party, they claim they're acting as individuals trying to spur a "silent majority" against the mayor.
"I think (the signs) speak for themselves," said a woman who has the sign in her Heath St. W. front garden.
The woman, who refused to give her name, said she's a life-long Torontonian but disagrees with Miller's tenure.
"He's made our city dirty," she said. "He makes me ashamed of my city."