POLL: Who is your dream candidate for mayor?
POLL: Who is your dream candidate for mayor?
Rob Ford says the 2014 mayoral election is going to be a “bloodbath” (which he, apparently, sees as a good thing). The prospect of a dirty fight hasn’t scared off TTC chair Karen Stintz or businessman David Soknacki, who have both already made their mayoral ambitions public. Who else should join them in a political death match? Choose your would-be candidates of choice in our fantasy ballot below. Your favourite candidate isn’t on the list? Let us know in the comment section.
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(Images: Rob Ford, Blind Nomad; Olivia Chow, Andrew Rusk; Giorgio Mammoliti, Christopher Drost; Drake, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Entertainment; John Tory, Denis Drever)
. The prospect of a dirty fight hasn’t scared off TTC chair Karen Stintz or businessman David Soknacki, who have both already made their mayoral ambitions public. Who else should join them in a political death match? Choose your would-be candidates of choice in our fantasy ballot below. Your favourite candidate isn’t on the list? Let us know in the comment section.
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(Images: Rob Ford, Blind Nomad; Olivia Chow, Andrew Rusk; Giorgio Mammoliti, Christopher Drost; Drake, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Entertainment; John Tory, Denis Drever)){kind=link}
Only one opponent agaist Rob Ford is allowed. That way the vote will not be split and he will surely lose.
EH!
I find Rob Ford as distasteful as the next guy, but surely Olivia Chow and Adam Vaughan aren’t the answer. Are we not able to elect a centrist mayor?
The pendulum swings. Miller, left wing. Ford, right wing. The swing is back to the left. We need a centralist person who would be acceptable to both right and left wing.
Agreed.
We simply cannot have Olivia Chow as our mayor. An NDP politician will simply raise taxes to pay for trivial things within the municipal government that really won’t benefit our city in the future. We need someone who is socially liberal, yet fiscally conservative. John Tory is a good candidate who could do some good for our embarrassed city (thanks Rob Ford).
We simply cannot have Olivia Chow as our mayor. An NDP politician will
simply raise taxes to pay for trivial things within the municipal
government that really won’t benefit our city in the future. We need
someone who is socially liberal, yet fiscally conservative who could do some good for our embarrassed city
(thanks Rob Ford).
Actually I’ve found that Conservatives typically raise taxes. Mulroney with the GST. Ford with the jump in property taxes to pay for the subways.
And usually I find Conservatives waste a lot of taxpayers money with 3P deals that are ultimately better for the private sector than the taxpayer. Ford with his Casino and waterfront development plans has more that enough examples of this.
Sorry, I would never trust a Tory with my pocketbook.
I indicated that I’d vote for someone who demonstrates that they’re socially liberal and fiscally conservative, not necessarily a cut-and-dry conservative politician.
On the topic of “conservatives wasting tax payers’ money” by privatizing, I’ll play devil’s advocate here.. While I truly believe Rob Ford is an abomination to our city, he did well by privatizing a portion of the city’s garbage pick up (http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2012/12/18/toronto_garbage_outsourcing_private_collection_going_well_figures_suggest.html) and he has limited tax increases, though not as much as he predicted.
Anyway, my point is I definitely wouldn’t trust an NDP with my pocketbook.
Also, taxes have GOT to be raised if we’re looking to do any sort of work on our limited transit system. Where are you expecting our government to find funding for the billion-dollar job? If it’s not property taxes, it’ll go elsewhere.
Ford claimed he would fund subways without raising taxes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfsIj6gYAw&list=TLswPQFusr5fEAiV4AUraA3aGOenu-Nfjz
Even three years ago, I imagined this plan if ever implemented would be a debacle like Skydome or the 407 ETR. Added to efficiencies like the provincial to municipal downloading under Harris…sorry I’m not seeing any precedent here that suggests so called fiscal conservatives actually have the financial health of the Toronto taxpayer in mind.