— Musings —07.25.2013 07:04 AM
Toronto’s next mayor
Reasons why I’d support her, if she ran:
- She knows how to work with everyone: that’s her rep from the Lastman years, when she was a councillor. She’s flexible. She isn’t into dogma.
- She’s hasn’t been part of the messes that have characterized City Hall for the past three years: Ford isn’t the only thing wrong with City Hall. Pretty much everyone down there – Stintz, etc. – have become part of the problem. We need an outsider.
- She has good ideas: I’ve run into Chow a few times, over the years, and found her ideas and approaches to be refreshingly centrist. (The NDP’s 2011 gains, in fact, were because she and her late husband pushed that party into the political centre.)
- She can beat the abomination that is the Ford Nation: and she’s the only one who can. Not Stintz, not Tory, not anyone – only Chow has the support to get rid of the historic disaster that is the Rob Ford regime.
I doubt she’s the only one, but anything, and I mean anything, a bucket with a happy face, would be an improvement on the Ommpa Loompa presently in charge.
Oompa Loompas do stuff.
So, we got the lazy, stupid one then ….
warren kinsella: Mayor of Toronto?
just stay away from the crack dens and it will be good!
Ha!
Not in a 3 way race. Head ON SHE CAN BEAT Rob
Does that mean no new football stadium? If Detroit can afford a taxpayer financed Hockey Rink, we can afford a football stadium, lets name it Ford Crack Field
I wouldn’t wish to have too many of the same things Detroit has right now.
It’s time to attract candidates who have had actual jobs.
She is just another career politician.
Being better than Rob is not much of an accomplishment.
But it’s the thing that counts – we have get rid of Fatso and if she can do it I’m for her
I don’t buy it — and I say that as someone who likes Olivia and leans centre-left. My sense (purely intuitive, that’s all) is that she is a very polarizing figure, especially in the “old” suburbs (Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York). I worry that in a straight-up two-way race, the suburbs and the centre-right generally would hold their noses and vote for Ford out of fear that a Chow administration would be controlled by the loony left at City Hall and fiscal probity would go out the window. (Not saying I agree with that, just that that’s how the centre-right would think.) Warren, I would be curious to know your reply to that.
If OC is in, I’m on. End of story.