{"id":5807,"date":"2010-10-12T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2010-10-12T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:46:45","slug":"torontos-election-gets-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/torontos-election-gets-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto’s election gets interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The race for the post of mayor of Toronto was supposed to be a dignified procession to the installation of George Smitherman, former provincial cabinet minister. The vote was expected to be a mere formality, as the assent of the right-thinking people in the downtown core was assured. Somehow, though, they forgot about having given the vote to the hillbillies and hockey hackers of the uncouth far-distant suburbs. Those unwashed hicks apparently supported some gaffe-prone character with lots of media-friendly damage already on tape and ready to roll.<\/p>\n

Unbelievably, the release of the damaging material seemed not only not to cause a drop in support, it seemed to increase<\/em> his support. At that point, the gloves came off (one assumes), as these signs<\/a> were put up along University Avenue overnight:<\/p>\n

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Not my photo, they’d already been taken down before I got to that stretch of University this morning. Photo courtesy of 680 News<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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