Power and Politics, Oct. 25: The municipal edition
Peggy and I react viscerally to the news of an imminent Rob Ford win.
Clippage here, at about the 1:44 mark.
Peggy and I react viscerally to the news of an imminent Rob Ford win.
Clippage here, at about the 1:44 mark.
Here’s what a Rob Ford victory is going to mean for different political players.
But what of others? Who benefits from a Ford win? Who doesn’t?
I’m in the Green Room at CITY-TV – they won’t let me leave – but I am happy, happy, happy that my friends Mary-Margaret McMahon, Jim Watson, Maurizio Bevilaqua, Eddie Francis, Josh Matlow and Denzil Minnan-Wong all won! Yahoo!
On the CITY bullpen thing, Andrew Coyne asked me if Rob Ford’s landslide portends bad times are ahead for Libs. Not a chance, said I. Federal and provincial Liberals won (or are leading) in Ottawa, Vaughan, Sarnia and so on. We’ll do just fine, thanks very much.
Besides, if the new conservative mayor in Toronto means bad tidings for Liberals, does the new liberal mayor in Calgary mean that Stephen Harper is going to lose his seat?
Not quite.
Well, yes, they are. Yet another reason to vote for Mary-Margaret McMahon!
The Municipal Election Act’s section 48(1), (2) and (3) say that you can’t, “directly or indirectly,” try and influence a voter at a polling place – that is, putting up one of your signs in the “immediate vicinity of a voting place.”
Sandra Bussin, and/or her team, dld that anyway. Add “lawbreaker” to their rap sheet!
(Sorry the “breaking news” soundtrack is so loud – this one was shot, edited and uploaded to the Interweeb all from iPhone 4.)
No less than Sam Wakim and Pat MacAdam have written to me to tell me that Dief, not Romeo LeBlanc, was the source of the bear-and-rabbit-tracks parable in my column, below. I accept that is so, but it was Romeo who told me that one, and not Diefenbaker.
In any event: let the record show that I stand corrected!
Proceeds going to the legal defence fund for those facing Officer Bubble trouble!
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