...to stand around and do nothing! This is leading by example!
Thursday, August 5, 2010 2:20 PM
Smitherman takes a page from Obama's book
Kelly Grant
Kyle Rae’s infamous retirement bash was back in the news this week thanks to the release of a mid-year report on councillors’ office spending. The report confirmed the reception’s price tag of just over $12,000 -- $2,000 to rent the Rosewater Room and $9,587.50 for hors d’oeuvres.
George Smitherman wants you to know that although he attended the party, he didn’t eat a single taxpayer-funded salmon puff or mini quiche. That claim is one of several on the mayoral hopeful’s new website, truthaboutgeorge.ca, a smear-battling site inspired by Barack Obama’s fightthesmears.com.
“George attended the going-away party for his long-time friend Kyle Rae. He arrived and realized that the spending was not right. Neither George, nor the volunteers who attended with him, ate or drank at the event,” one entry on the site reads. “George’s opponents would like you to think he is somehow responsible for this celebration. He was not. He doesn’t agree that public money should be spent on events like this which is why he has called for a $2-million reduction in the budgets of the Mayor and Councillors.”
The Smitherman campaign also takes on accusations about his June trip to China, his brokering of the Samsung wind-and-solar power deal as a provincial cabinet minister, his involvement in the E-Health scandal, even his reputation as a “furious” politician. “‘Furious’ rhymes with ‘curious,’ which might have something to do with the label some of George’s opponents have tried to apply to him,” the site says.
Careful how you type the url, though. Inadvertently add the definite article and you'll be redirected to the National Women’s Organization.
George Smitherman wants you to know that although he attended the party, he didn’t eat a single taxpayer-funded salmon puff or mini quiche. That claim is one of several on the mayoral hopeful’s new website, truthaboutgeorge.ca, a smear-battling site inspired by Barack Obama’s fightthesmears.com.
“George attended the going-away party for his long-time friend Kyle Rae. He arrived and realized that the spending was not right. Neither George, nor the volunteers who attended with him, ate or drank at the event,” one entry on the site reads. “George’s opponents would like you to think he is somehow responsible for this celebration. He was not. He doesn’t agree that public money should be spent on events like this which is why he has called for a $2-million reduction in the budgets of the Mayor and Councillors.”
The Smitherman campaign also takes on accusations about his June trip to China, his brokering of the Samsung wind-and-solar power deal as a provincial cabinet minister, his involvement in the E-Health scandal, even his reputation as a “furious” politician. “‘Furious’ rhymes with ‘curious,’ which might have something to do with the label some of George’s opponents have tried to apply to him,” the site says.
Careful how you type the url, though. Inadvertently add the definite article and you'll be redirected to the National Women’s Organization.
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