I'd vote for him.
Smitherman and Rossi spend so much time bashing Ford and spend very little time talking about their platforms. For instance, I would personally like to know if they are in favour of taking down the Gardiner or leaving it up.
Sort of an anti-Ford then ...
Adam Vaughan spoke to about a dozen faculty members and students at Ryerson University last year, and I got the impression that he would make an ideal mayor. I'm actually surprised that David Miller got the mayoral post, what made him so special? He seems too idealist and a bit of a pussy in terms of standing up for himself.
He's too happy pocketing developer and club money on the side to jump to mayoral races without any real heavyweigh backing
Vaughan won't run... he has nothing to fall back to.
Plus he has NO political /populus vote to back him.
He's too happy pocketing developer and club money on the side to jump to mayoral races without any real heavyweigh backing.
He can't afford to be out of office...
He used to be Liberal/centrist... actually ran 'against' the regime, but once in, he's no different.
Just about lining his own pockets
Ford - Populous - non political soundbyte
Smitherman - Ontario liberals
Rossi - Federal and lots of well of business men.
Pantalone - NDP .
That's your backing...
and Vaughn - no liberal support anymroe.- no real big businesses.. perhaps the NDP, and that's a BIG perhaps...
Will be interesting to see.
You can truly only be 'independant' if you are a successful businessmen..
anyone else will have strings attached to it.
It's interesting that it was mentioned in the previous post referred to Vaughan having once been a person that ran against the regime but once in, he changed.
It's exactly what one of my friends in particular has been saying for some time. She has commented that he's been such a disappointment because before he when he was journalist, he stood against waste, abuse and corruption within the system commited by other policticians but once he was elected, he fell in line and became one of them.
Her opinion, not mine. I just don't know his history well enough to form any real opinion.