The Fish Always Stinks At The Head

Mammoliti at his best......trying to outdo the rest of councilors who spend their entire office budget.

Petty Mayor Should Police Own Rules
By Sue Ann Levy

For a so-called seasoned political veteran, Mayor David Miller has shown incredibly poor judgment on the whole councillor expense account issue.

A true leader would have put a quick end -- months ago -- to the petty review, initiated by council's top spender Giorgio Mammoliti, of two of his colleagues for using too little of their $53,100 office budgets.

After all, it's clear to all but His Blondness and his complicit minions this is one issue they cannot win. In fact, it appears to be turning the two councillors at the centre of the witch hunt -- Doug Holyday and Rob Ford -- into cult heroes and has put Mammoliti all the more under the microscope.

Yet at executive committee earlier this week, the mayor proposed that Ford and Holyday be forced to comply with council policy that decrees they pay for office expenses like postage, printing of newsletters, promotion and photocopying out of their $53,100 office budgets, and submit receipts for items they pay for with their own money.

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