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cabot

(724 posts) Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:49 PM Mar 2014

Olivia Chow is running for mayor of Toronto

And I am happy. I hope we can restore some dignity to the office and get Ford out.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/olivia-chow-launches-toronto-mayoral-campaign-1.2570884

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Olivia Chow is running for mayor of Toronto (Original Post) cabot Mar 2014 OP

She's pretty awesome... SidDithers Mar 2014 #1

She is cabot Mar 2014 #2

Yeah. My Rob (Burton) is much better than your Rob (Ford)... SidDithers Mar 2014 #3

I'm so glad she's running .... polly7 Mar 2014 #4

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)

1. She's pretty awesome...

Reply to cabot (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:51 PM

Mar 2014

and would have my vote if I lived 50km further east.

Sid

cabot

(724 posts)

2. She is

Reply to SidDithers (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:53 PM

Mar 2014

She's much better than the idiot who is currently our mayor.

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)

3. Yeah. My Rob (Burton) is much better than your Rob (Ford)...

Reply to cabot (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:54 PM

Mar 2014

Sid

polly7

(20,582 posts)

4. I'm so glad she's running ....

Reply to cabot (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2014, 01:56 PM

Mar 2014

Here's a bit more, (with an opinion poll that shows her far ahead):

Preening and pawing at the starting line are former Toronto budget chief and businessman David Soknacki; TTC chair and Councillor Karen Stintz; talk show host and former head of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party John Tory; and the incongruous incumbent, Rob Ford.

It’s two working-class women versus three wealthy men.
Or, as the Chow camp prefers to put it, Chow against three apologists for the mayor’s bad behaviour.

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2014/03/13/with_olivia_chow_joining_toronto_mayors_race_lineup_promises_an_exciting_finish_james.html

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