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John Tory: “I just don’t think we need to be repeating that”

By Steve Kupferman

| October 30, 2014

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“They’ll probably replay old tapes. I just don’t think we need to be repeating that.”

—John Tory, telling the Sun why he turned down a request to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live. This is one way in which he differs from his predecessor.

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