I don't know if it's because we're in the middle of a very busy, hot summer, but from where I'm sitting this is the least inspiring Toronto mayoral race I can remember.
The simple fact this is the first I've written about this election to choose Toronto's new mayor since Rob Ford announced his candidacy tells you a great deal. That was March 16th. Since then, I haven't been motivated to write a single word about an election taking place October 25, 2010, except to chew Rocco Rossi out for his Sympatico spam.
Last I checked there were 34 candidates. They are:
- Achampong, Rocco
- Andrews, Don
- Babula, George
- Ball, Christopher
- Barton, Andrew
- Campbell, Douglas
- Castillo, Jaime
- Clarke, Kevin
- Cole, Keith
- Cottle, Charlene
- Firth, Selwyn
- Flie, Michael
- Ford, Rob
- Ghazi, Abdullah-Baquie
- Gomberg, Howard
- Hossain, Monowar
- Lee, Dewitt
- Letonja, John
- Macklin, Carmen
- Magee, Colin
- McMillan, Jim
- Pampena, Joseph
- Pantalone, Joe
- Rossi, Rocco
- Smitherman, George
- State, Mark
- Steinberger, Tibor
- Syed, Himy
- Taylor, Phil
- Thomson, Sarah
- Vallance, David
- Wadhwa, Ratan
- Walker, Daniel
- Yeung, Sonny
In reality, our next mayor will be one of the following: Rob Ford, Joe Pantalone, Rocco Rossi, George Smitherman or Sarah Thomson. You already know what I think about Rob Ford, but none of the other four leading candidates inspire me, either. If George Smitherman wins, it's not because he ran a stellar campaign. It's because he was the best of a bad lot.
Who would you vote for in this 2010 Toronto mayoral race?
