David Soknacki is running as a right-leaning candidate. He was budget chief under Miller, so while Ford will jump all over that, it shows that Soknacki works well with others (something that Ford needed to learn in kindergarten).
"Seven years after leaving city hall, former councillor and budget chief David Soknacki is giving “serious consideration” to running for mayor of Toronto.
The Scarborough fiscal conservative and genial owner of a successful spice business is already at odds with Mayor Rob Ford on a key issue — he strongly believes light rail, not a subway, makes the most sense as a replacement for the aging Scarborough RT.
“For an extension to Kennedy (station), LRT produces results faster, for more people, at less expense, and is paid for” by provincial dollars that don’t come close to covering the cost of a subway, Soknacki said.
“To trade that for something reliant on (financial) fairy dust is not the way we ought to go.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...lor_david_soknacki_ponders_run_for_mayor.html