Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Not a crook, but not off the hook
Posted: August 06, 2009, 12:37 PM by NP Editor
Blonde on bald
Who is Canada's least favourite mayor?
It's difficult to salvage a column whose lede isn't even a sentence, but the Toronto Star's inimitable Bob Hepburn makes a reasonable try of it, proposing a six-point strategy under which David Miller might put the strike debacle behind him and win a third term as mayor of Toronto. Alas, it eventually comes apart when he suggests (point five) Miller “get out more in Scarborough, North York” and elsewhere in the sticks, where his commuter-unfriendly policies have proven unpopular, but then insists (point six) Miller “must develop a narrowly focused campaign aimed at core supporters,” i.e., “NDPers, union members and renters.” Unless Miller is capable of dividing himself into two people, running two separate campaigns, and then re-amalgamating himself just in time for the victory party, we don't really see how he's going to be able to pull it off.
James Travers, in the Star, and (which is especially good) Lawrence Martin in The Globe and Mail, explain why Ottawa mayor Larry O'Brien's acquittal on influence-peddling charges simply highlights the odiousness of the methodologies he and so many others in Ottawa freely admit to practicing.
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