Rob Ford's Toronto

[PinkLucy]

SAL and righteous indignation, because a Ford has never given a job to a friend. Nuh uh.

 

[Greg Banks]

And before Sewell--don't forget Lampy!

Then there's the matter of all the pre-amalgamation Mayors (of whom F. Nunziata's the last remaining) who opted for Council post-megaamalgamation...

Lampy was an interesting case, wasn't he....most of his career was mayor or nothing with losses to McCallum, Phillips, Givens..however at the backend of his career he pulled his horns and sat on council under Summerville and Dennison
...Davenport your two cents please.....

Yeah the preamalgamtion mayors....Holyday, Prue (moved on to the Province), Nunziata, Faubert (died in office) all were on the 1997 Council, the only one who faded to dark was Hall

 

[TJ O'Pootertoot]

SAL and righteous indignation, because a Ford has never given a job to a friend. Nuh uh.

That's different. Obviously you have to reward loyalty!
I keep hoping that, even if Rob never gets arrested, even if he gets healthy again and serves 10 more terms on council that one day, somewhere at some point in time, will explain what the heck David Price's job was.

You've gotta have dreams, right?

 

[adma]

Yeah the preamalgamtion mayors....Holyday, Prue (moved on to the Province), Nunziata, Faubert (died in office) all were on the 1997 Council, the only one who faded to dark was Hall

Well, in Etobicoke, not just Holyday, but Sinclair and Flynn tried in 1997, too--Sinclair made it (only to be defeated in 2000), Flynn didn't.

And Flynn, generally; after his Mayoral and Metro Chair stints, went on to Metro Council in 1988...

 

[adma]

BTW if anyone misses the days when this thread went at a hundreds-of-posts-a-day pace, may I propose it henceforth be renamed, "Mayor Jian Ghomeshi's Toronto". That'll do it.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

BTW if anyone misses the days when this thread went at a hundreds-of-posts-a-day pace, may I propose it henceforth be renamed, "Mayor Jian Ghomeshi's Toronto". That'll do it.

As if the last four years hasn't been masochistic enough.

AoD

 

[Cooper]

Oh normally I'd agree with you Coop. These kids however will probably be running for some office in a minute.

Yeah. There is that. I thought Doug Jr. was quite charming.

 

[animatronic]

Saint Robert of Etobicoke is healed by his Nation

 

[Greg Banks]

Well, in Etobicoke, not just Holyday, but Sinclair and Flynn tried in 1997, too--Sinclair made it (only to be defeated in 2000), Flynn didn't.

And Flynn, generally; after his Mayoral and Metro Chair stints, went on to Metro Council in 1988...

Here I'll give you a name going way back Leslie Saunders Mayor of Toronto, candidate for Reeve of East York defeated by True Davidson...Alderman for East York Ward 1 1974 (with him running and David Johnson incumbent, I decided not to run that year, the end of my short and unconspicuous political career) under Willis Blair then finally mayor of East York 1976

 

[nfitz]

Here I'll give you a name going way back Leslie Saunders Mayor of Toronto ...

Ah, the incumbent who lost out to Nathan Phillips (first Jewish mayor) by running on the slogan "Leslie Saunders, Protestant".

You know, when you start digging into Toronto's history, it does kind of jump out at you how many really bad and/or racist mayors we've had.

 

[animatronic]

Ah, the incumbent who lost out to Nathan Phillips (first Jewish mayor) by running on the slogan "Leslie Saunders, Protestant".

You know, when you start digging into Toronto's history, it does kind of jump out at you how many really bad and/or racist mayors we've had.

It's a good thing all of our police chiefs have been above reproach.

 

[the lemur]

Since it is this time of the year I will call this "black-catty" of SAL:

Cronyism begins with Tory's transition team
"Oh my. When I saw the assorted "yes men and women," er ... cronies, er ... advisers, on the John Tory transition team, I thought I'd been put in a time machine and sent back to the Mel Lastman era, circa 2001..."
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/10/29/cronyism-begins-with-torys-transition-team

Nothing about Tory is ever going to meet with SAL's approval - might as well get used to it now. Others have said the team had too many people sympathetic to Tory's ideas, not enough diversity, etc. If anything, Ford's transition team (which had fewer members) was an even smaller tent. And I'm not sure SAL was really that critical of the Lastman team at the time either.

 

[Greg Banks]

Ah, the incumbent who lost out to Nathan Phillips (first Jewish mayor) by running on the slogan "Leslie Saunders, Protestant".

I can remember back then to my grandmother chortling away "It is the end of Orange Toronto" and that "It always rains on the Orangmen's Parade because God was angry at them."

 

[animatronic]

Ah, the incumbent who lost out to Nathan Phillips (first Jewish mayor) by running on the slogan "Leslie Saunders, Protestant".

I can remember back then to my grandmother chortling away "It is the end of Orange Toronto" and that "It always rains on the Orangmen's Parade because God was angry at them."

This city started going to shit as soon as you Catholics got the vote...

 

[Greg Banks]

This city started going to shit as soon as you Catholics got the vote...

Ah, but I'm an olio of faiths four grandparents, four different paths there is Methodist, Calvinist, Catholic, Jewish...throw 'em up in the air and what do you get a nonpractising Jew....
What makes it even more convoluted is my mother's parents came across the pond under the auspices of the Salavation Army who are clearly Wesleyan...