...comic relef follows but let's deal with:
Former student football player says Rob Ford never hit him
Smart car parked in dumb spot
Last Updated: July 27, 2010 8:00pm
- This photo was snapped on Harbord St. by a volunteer working for mayoral candidate George Smitherman. (SMITHERMAN CAMPAIGN TEAM)
Mayoralty candidate Joe Pantalone’s Smart car was parked in a dumb spot — on top of a bike lane — over the weekend.
An eagle-eyed volunteer for Pantalone’s rival, George Smitherman, saw the car on Harbord St. and snapped the photo with their iPhone.
The Sun requested a copy of the photo from the Smitherman campaign Tuesday in order to ask Pantalone’s camp about what was going on.
Pantalone’s spokesman Mike Smith told the Sun the incident proves the Smitherman campaign “has nothing better to do than take surreptitious photos of peoples’ parking habits.”
“I don’t know what kind of campaign they are running over there,” said Smith, who added it was a “Mickey Mouse” issue.
Smith said the car was pulled over for “13 seconds” to pick up Pantalone from a nearby building.
The parking job seems to fly in the face of Pantalone’s own campaign values.
Bike lanes are listed on his campaign website as one of “Joe’s values.”
“As part of a Complete Streets plan — already proven effective in cities across the U.S. — dedicated bike lanes improve the city’s air quality, do more to ensure the safety of cyclists, and encourage commuters to get out of cars and onto bikes,” says his website. “I support the dedicated bike lane pilot because I believe experimentation can lead to innovative solutions to nagging city problems.”
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Mayoral hopefuls hang signs
Last Updated: July 27, 2010 6:59pm
Mayoral candidates are stepping up for the next phase of the marathon battle for the top job at City Hall.
Candidates were permitted — as of Tuesday — to hang signs outside their campaign offices for the first time since registration opened in January for the Oct. 25 municipal election.
Mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi’s campaign workers didn’t waste any time announcing they were hanging signs outside their campaign headquarters on Avenue Rd., near Dupont St.
But the event did take some time.
Although the media was invited to show up at 11 a.m., an actual Rossi campaign sign didn’t go up until 11:30 a.m.
Rossi spokesman Patricia Best said signs matter for her candidate because — unlike others — he hasn’t been in politics for 10 years to 30 years and has to work harder to get his name out.
It wasn’t important to everyone.
A man making a delivery nearby didn’t waste any time expressing his displeasure at the candidate as he walked by the handful of media.
He shouted that Rossi was the “idiot of the year” and, on his way back to an unmarked van, he even told a joke.
“You know what Rocco’s nickname is? Miller-light,” he guffawed.
A quick thinking campaign worker shot back.
“No, that’s Pantalone,” the worker said.
Starting Sept. 30, campaign election signs can go up across the city.
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