QUOTED: Karen Stintz, on her powers of invisibility

By Steve Kupferman | January 14, 2014

By Steve Kupferman | 01/14/2014

(Image: Stintz: Facebook/Karen Stintz; Ford: Christopher Drost)

“Just because you didn’t see me doesn’t mean I wasn’t there.”

–Karen Stintz at Monday’s city council meeting, defending herself in a heated argument with Rob Ford about leadership during December’s ice storm. Was she trying to suggest that she has some kind of invisible aircraft, like Wonder Woman? Alas, no. Stintz had accused Ford of failing to allow deputy mayor Norm Kelly to take charge during the storm. In response, Ford accused Stintz, who is the chair of the TTC, of not personally attending to ice-related transit problems. This was her way of denying that charge. The exchange is already being interpreted as an early shot in the coming mayoral campaign, during which Stintz is expected to be one of Ford’s major opponents.

7 thoughts on “QUOTED: Karen Stintz, on her powers of invisibility”

So, was she there or wasn’t she?

Holy fuck Toronto Life. Maybe you should have watched the session instead of trying to parse the coverage.
Any time someone asked Ford a tough question, he accused them of not being there for the residents because “I didn’t see you there.”
In other words, if someone wasn’t in Ford’s line of sight when he just so happened to visit (and this being the Mayor of Hyperbole, he was in every ward, every day), they were necessarily not doing their job. The notion that they could be elsewhere in the ward was a non-starter.
Stintz was about the 4th councillor he tried this tactic on and the first to really push back. She listed about 5 storm-related places and events she was at where the Mayor wasn’t present.
For the record I don’t live in the city, don’t have a vote and wouldn’t vote for either of these 2.
But you need to be taken to task here (ideally you’d remove this entry). The quote is completely taken out of context for 1, and needs to have the appendage ‘in the ward’ not ‘at that very location’ as you’re trying to portray.

She obviously was not there because she would have flatly said so otherwise. And no matter now may times Ford has accused others of being there or not, she is the chair of TTC, and she darn needs to be there when transit is being discussed. And no, I don’t belong to Ford nation, not that it would be relevant. I am not impressed by the diplomacy or maturity of either individual so far.

@ D. Ray Morton – He was there many flew south or didn’t come to meeting. So when the councillors (you know the ones that support the Ideologies of Dictatorship and Fascism) open there yaps, it needs to be know where they were!! Fair enough question!! I still want to know where the hell they all were!! The smart ones (and I use the term loosely) knew to shut up!! Mayor Ford did a fantastic job along with Hydro and EMS. Them be the facts!!!

Exactly, in her invisible aircraft, like Wonder Woman!!!

The councillors keep attacking Rob Ford!! He is only defending himself, the councillors all support the ideologies of Dictatorship and Fascism. It has nothing to do with Ford!! He is clean, working out and looking good!!!