Royson James sums up the Adam Giambrone scandal pretty well:
Mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone can be gay if he wants to, or bisexual. This is Toronto.
Giambrone the playboy can have a 19-year-old girlfriend on the side, a common practice among the political elite of the day.
Giambrone the TTC chair can use the couch in his city hall office to bed Kristen Lucas late at night when he should have been using the office to solve customer-relations problems at the TTC.
Giambrone the defender of the public purse can even give his girl and her mother inside information about an upcoming transit fare hike while barring commuters from hoarding tokens in advance of the said fare hike.
And when caught with his pants on the ground, the man with the clean-cut, fresh, youthful image can admit only to having an “inappropriate” text message relationship with the girlfriend, as if it amounted to mere digital sex, a peccadillo.
But the 32-year-old city councillor can’t do all that and expect Torontonians to embrace him as their mayor.
Update: Giambrone seems to have realized it’s over: he’s announced that his bid for mayor is over.
I am sad; the spectacle of seeing Adam try to simultaneously deflect focus from his affair and TTC’s cantankerous staff would have been my only highlight on the way to the Smitherman coronation.
Now the Mayor is striving mightily to keep him in his TTC chairmanship; I would rather Giambrome resigned from the TTC and kept his mayoral bid intact.
Comment by Chris Taylor — February 11, 2010 @ 19:59
Well, the election is still long enough away that it’s possible he’ll try to get back into the race once the media loses interest.
Comment by Nicholas — February 12, 2010 @ 12:38