Ridiculous comments and claims made by City Councillors

[pattycakes]

Mammoliti strikes again:

Coun. Mammoliti continues campaign against highway tolls, @NatalieCTV reports. http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.3200008…

 

[salsa]

Mammoliti has put forward this ridiculous motion containing $3.5 billion worth of imaginary savings.

 

[DSC]

Mammo has also held several motions at Council from the Toronto & East York Community Council (zoning amendments and accessible parking.) Last time he did this he seemed to be absent (both physically and the, usual, mentally) when they came up but ....

 

[PinkLucy]

There's an awful lot of stuff in that one motion!

 

[salsa]

Karygiannis asks if Fragedakis would support tolling "Highway 5" which he says is the Danforth. Fragedakis: "It's not an expressway!"

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Apparently Denzil Minnan-Wong asked staff today if it would be feasible to put tolls on King, the Allen, Avenue, and a bunch of other roads.

But Krystin Wong-Tam decided to top that with this:

Coun. Wong-Tam wants to bring back the Vehicle Registration Tax at $120 (per four-wheel vehicle).
https://twitter.com/GraphicMatt/status/808774277235412992

 

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Isn't the whole idea to bring the tax base down to zero?

Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt
4 mins ago
Giorgio Mammoliti is baffled by the very notion that someone might vote for a politician who supports tax increases.

That, and to transfer the tax base to the 905. Make them pay for the wall.

 

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Mammoliti has put forward this ridiculous motion containing $3.5 billion worth of imaginary savings.


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Mammoliti motion to:

Ask Metrolinx to assume responsibility for the TTC fails 16-26.

Request provincial government eliminate Finch LRT plans fails 2-40. There's your meme councillor

Amalgamate fire and paramedics fails 17-24.

Eliminate the poverty reduction strategy fails 2-39.

Request province take responsibility for "Homes for the Aged" fails 18-22.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

This was posted in the John Tory thread, but it is too good to not repost here as well.

Mammoliti and Tory get into heated exchange about road tolls
http://globalnews.ca/video/3125623/mammoliti-and-tory-get-into-heated-exchange-about-road-tolls/

 

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David Rider ‏@dmrider 21s22 seconds ago
Speaker Nunziata rules @cllrainslie ranked ballot motion is in order. Mammo tried to argue couldn't re-open a past council vote

People in his ward must be so proud...

 

[PinkLucy]

People in his ward must be so proud...

And yet they continue to vote for him.

 

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Those damn political egghead brain scientists...

Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie
2 mins ago
Minnan-Wong on ranked ballots: "The only people interested in studying it are kind of egghead political science types..."

"The public's not interested in ranked ballots," says Coun. Denzil Minnan-Wong. He says people in his ward like first-past-the-post.

Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt
1 min ago
Coun. Di Giorgio notes it's hard to get 50% of the vote if ten candidates run. "You don't have to be a brain scientist to understand that."

Well then it's unsurprising that the motion failed 17-22. Thanks again, council.

 

[Skeezix]

Meant to mock symposiums by pointy heads, but applies really well to the Q&A part of most Council debates:

(Credit: Oslo Davis)

 

[ADRM]

In a fit of strangeness that we should probably expect from City Council, Mammoliti has just admitted he made a mistake voting for the rebuild of the Gardiner East and is asking how the boulevard option can be put back on the table (though he has now finished speaking and did not motion anything).

I have no idea.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

In a fit of strangeness that we should probably expect from City Council, Mammoliti has just admitted he made a mistake voting for the rebuild of the Gardiner East and is asking how the boulevard option can be put back on the table (though he has now finished speaking and did not motion anything).

I have no idea.

I think Mammoliti is still peeved from the other day. He is more of an anti-Tory contrarian than anything now.