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Rob Ford is going to slowly implode over the course of the summer. In the end, a huge centrist push is going to coalesce around someone like Smitherman or Pantalone or Rossi, or if he changes his mind, John Tory. David Miller got 57% of the vote last election vs Jane Pitfield's 30%. There's not a huge conservative base to pull from in this city.
That's my worst nightmare personified. Smitherman and Rossi? Want more of the same? Elect another Liberal and you shall get your wish. Toronto will continue its downward spiral from the “City That Works” back to the “Muddy York” of two centuries ago unless something totally different is done.
Smitherman just sounds more like an idiot day after day. He's making it too easy for the people of Toronto. And to all of Smitherman supporters... REALLYYYYYYYY? Rob Ford understands how to control costs because it is part of his business practice. His private company employs 250 people. George Smitherman, a lawyer by trade, has no idea how to control costs -- he is adversarial on every topic. When George was told about conditions in nursing homes, he offered to wear a diaper --- some solution. With no local consultation, he decided to build a gas-powered generating station in the Greenbelt on the edge of the Holland Marsh, Ontario's primary heritage farmland. George's party with E-Health 'consultants' (political cronyism) has cost us at least $1-billion. His bypassing of any environmental studies to push windmills in Lake Ontario by the Scarborough Bluffs; the serious questions about his financial management skills--i.e. ehealth, etc, real questons about his going to a mayor's conference in China on the Chinese government's dime (what sort of influence peddling is this?); his close involvement with Mcguinty that still goes on... George is a talking head with no idea how cost/benefits analysis is performed. George is a menace.
And Joey Pants? Lol!
One more thing, Rossi started off immediately with the WRONG attitude. Why 'sell' anything to reduce the deficit? Why not cut waste and limit increases to public sector payroll costs? That's what an intelligent person would do. Anything that has to do with the Liberal Party of Canada these days is like jumping from the devil we know to the devil we don't. And splitering the right-wing vote will only allow Smitherman to slither his way through to victory.
What Toronto REALLY needs is a mayor who understands how to run a CITY efficiently, not someone who wastes time and money declaring nuclear-free zones and closing law-abiding gun clubs (big difference that made). Someone who can fix the streets and sewers, clean up the TTC, collect the garbage and balance the books, all without screeching about being "world-class". Oh and it's not just mayor that has to be replaced, the councillors have to go as well. It's time to break up their monopoly over this city. Sandra Bussin, councillor for Toronto Beaches, is a great example of what needs to go and fast!
So when y'all have the maturity to talk about the issues, rather than insinuate that Rob Ford is a mafioso or focus so narrowly on inconsequential sensstionalist spin concocted up in a mediahouse darkroom, I'll be waiting.
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