{"id":2656,"date":"2010-02-09T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:45:52","slug":"scandal-hits-toronto-mayoral-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/scandal-hits-toronto-mayoral-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal hits Toronto mayoral candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s early for this kind of media-friendly scandal to break, which makes it unlikely to actually affect the outcome of the election (that is, it’s a self-inflicted wound, no partisan assistance required). Adam Giambrone<\/a> gets to try to finesse his way out of an “inappropriate relationship with a young woman.”<\/p>\n

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Giambrone, who currently lives with long-time partner Sarah McQuarrie, admitted to the relationship with university student Kristen Lucas after she forwarded a series of text messages to the Toronto Star. Lucas said she had been in a relationship with Giambrone for about a year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Andrew Coyne<\/a> has been sending lots of twitter updates on the matter:<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t decide whether this Adam Giambrone business is funnier than it is creepy, or creepier than it is funny.
As always, the issue isn\u2019t the sex — that\u2019s the funny part — it\u2019s the multiple, multiple lies.
Was he lying when he told his teenage paramour the “live-in partner\u201d at his mayoral launch was just “someone political… for the campaign\u201d?
Or is he lying to us when he publicly apologizes to the \u201cpartner,” as if she were anything more than a flag of convenience?
Did he lie to her too? Or did he tell her I need you to pretend to be my lover, but don\u2019t worry I\u2019ll be shtupping a teenager the whole time?
[. . .]
And best of all: the “threatening email” he showed the Star, purportedly from her, in which she misspells her own name.
So the question for Toronto voters is not, do you want a serial liar for mayor, but do you want an incompetent one?
As for me, I’m sticking with my initial reaction: What a maroon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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