Ghost of a flea

A mayor for Toronto

We will get to the mayor in a moment. The Flea has only one endorsement to offer in today's Toronto municipal elections: vote Jeff Brown for Ward 19 councillor!

As a former community newspaper reporter and publisher, a teacher, and a community volunteer, I am committed to bringing your voice and priorities to City Hall.

The proposed Front Street extension should be stopped. Elect Jeff Brown!

We are also voting for mayor today...

To bridge or not to bridge, I don't care. On the one hand we have a guy who wants to put more police officers on the street but whose endorsement by the police union is itself legally dubious. On the other hand we have a guy who is endorsed by a councillor who defended rioters even as they assaulted police officers and their horses in an attempt to storm the provincial parliament.

I have the sneaking suspicion the first will find the money to buy a police helicopter that, given past performance, will be used to hover over my house at four'o'clock Sunday morning. I have a sneaking suspicion the second will ban smoking in bars and restaurants thereby driving most of my friends out onto the streets for early a.m. cigarettes.

I would like a waste-to-energy facility rather than 150 truckloads of garbage on the highways to Michigan every day but I would also like highway traffic to pay for the highways they use by preference to the TTC.

Once again I find myself without a candidate to vote for who has the slightest chance of winning and who isn't a ludicrous little twerp. At least I will not have to live with that voice and almost any mayor would be better than the last.

Let's hope Rick McGinnis has advice on what to do.

And then... The Meatriarchy has identified the real issue at state. Vote Quimby!

And then... Mondo Sismondo is coy about her decision for mayor (while assuring readers she does not share my indecision) and provides a ringing endorsement for Jeff Brown in Ward 19.

And, since I don't want any levels of government to work together, I will be voting for Jeff Brown for Ward 19 Councillor. As of yesterday, I'm his ex-wife and I'm still voting for him. I don't think you can get a stronger endorsement than that.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 10, 2003 03:33 AM