Remember, remember, the 13th of November

[sabotabby]

Okay, fellow Hogtowners: Who here can link me to a reasonable guide to the candidates running in the municipal elections? Normally I'd be up on this stuff myself, but my personal life has been such a mess lately that I haven't been following the race at all. I mean, I know that himy is running in my ward (that'd be a shameless plug, by the way), and I know that I want to see Pitfield's campaign go down in flames, but do I know from school trustees? No. So who wants to hook me up with some info and/or discuss who you're voting for, if you're voting.

I'm in Ward 19, should you come across ward-specific guides.

Comments

I'm a Bad Citizen too.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

I was gonna ask you where this election had come from.

Here's some stuff:

Official (therefore boring and bogus) City of Toronto Elections website.

Wikipedia on the 2006 Toronto elections (WTF??? How can you have an encyclopedia entry on something that hasn't happened yet?), and stuff on Ward 19.

And, probably better reading, Eye's Elections Blog.

Monday, Nov. 6, there's an Election Thing at Revival. Wanna go?

Re: I'm a Bad Citizen too.

[sabotabby]

Monday, Nov. 6, there's an Election Thing at Revival. Wanna go?

I'll be in Seattle.

Re: I'm a Bad Citizen too.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Oh well. Guess not, then.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

The Now always has a reliable guide that's unabashedly pro-NDP.

[sabotabby]

Have they published it yet? If they have, I've missed it.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Usually it's closer to the election date. You can call them up and ask them ;]

Off Topic Toronto Stuff

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I forgot that the legendary Beguiling was in Toronto. Is that the comics shop you go to?

Re: Off Topic Toronto Stuff

[sabotabby]

Indeed, I do go there. It's right near my house. They are kinda snotty though.

Re: Off Topic Toronto Stuff

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Hopefully not like the comics shop guy in The Simpsons.

Off topic, once more: Do you still have that link to the potty-mouthed old guy ranting about the cost of a cup of coffee at Starbucks?

Re: Off Topic Toronto Stuff

[sabotabby]

No, it's more of a snotty hipster thing. Different kind of snotty. And also, kinda dumb: brownfist asked them if they had any good left-wing graphic novels, and the guy said, "I forget—which one's left-wing and which one's right-wing?"

That would be: Stick it up your ass, fuckin' Starbucks. Fuckin' right!

Re: Off Topic Toronto Stuff

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

"I forget—which one's left-wing and which one's right-wing?"

Oh . my . fucking . god.

That would be: Stick it up your ass, fuckin' Starbucks. Fuckin' right!

Many thanks, I added it to a comment in my gentrification post. Did you see the Onion article I tacked onto it?

Re: Off Topic Toronto Stuff

[sabotabby]

Ah, yes. I've seen it before. It's one of my favourites, although nothing will ever take the place of "One day, I willl copy-edit the Great American Novel" and "Nation's Educators Alarmed By Poorly Written Teen Suicide Notes."

[threeliesforone.livejournal.com]

i'd like such info as well! i haven't been giving the election much thought because it's making my brain hurt. i'm definitely voting miller, but as for my councillor? i don't know. i'm torn between joe mihevc & john sewell. i need to find out more about both campaigns, but me? i'm lazy.

& school trustees? i have zero idea as well. i usually just refrain from voting for them.

[sabotabby]

I think I'm grudgingly voting for Miller again. I voted for him rather enthusiastically last time, but he's proved to be mostly a disappointment. Still, better than the alternatives.

I like Sewell. Don't know as much about Mihevc.

School trustees are important, at least insofar as I want to vote for someone who's not going to be all Safe Schools-obsessive or wants to bash the teachers' union. I take those things personally. ;)

[sabotabby]

OMG. None of the people running for school trustee in my riding even have websites. How am I suppose to know what they're all about?

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I think I'm not voting for Miller. I know he's mostly tied up by the lack of funds, but he's appealing to the right-of-centre a little too much for my pleasure. The shit about megabins and stuff, polluting our visual environment for just a few tens of millions of dollars on a 7-billion dollar budget is pretty shitty. I know they backed down, but it's the fact that it took so long that worries me. I don't demand that Miller lead the Workers' Vanguard, but he could still show some teeth.

There's a homeless guy that's run a few times and who's running again, if I can remember his name I'll vote for him.

fuck this layton icon. appropriate for this post, but now I need a new leftie icon.

[sabotabby]

The homeless guy looks promising; I liked what the Wikipedia article said about him. The only problem is that I'm worried that Pitfield or LeDrew will get in. Ah, see, this is why I hate electoral politics.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Be happy that you don't live in Vancouver; there everyone votes for everyone else's councillors, and since the wealthier fuckers in the west side vote in higher proportion, they are pretty good at ensuring that the council doesn't stray too far left. In spite of that though, it seems that the left is not too bad off. But imagine if people were left to vote for their own councillors...

In a way, it's form of proportional representation I guess? Is there some tabber to refresh my memory on this?

[sabotabby]

Isn't proportional representation by population? So even if rich fuckers voted more, there are fewer rich neighbourhoods with fewer people in them, so they'd get to have fewer representatives. The only thing tempting about Vancouver's system (and wouldn't that be horrifically complex?) is that I could vote for whoever was running against John Ford, and that would be gratifying.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

A gift for you: JMPP meets the man of her dreams

[sabotabby]

*dies*

They are halfway to creating the new übermensch!

The ribbon thing kills me. I've half a mind to make it into an icon.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

I died a little when I read that article.

I smell fanfiction snark!

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Let me see, an evolutionary theorist who teaches at a school of economic does a report for a cable TV channel......am I missing anything? Do they expect anyone to take that seriously.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

It's delightful! I can see already that my descendants will fall into the category of ugly-as-squat goblins!

[sabotabby]

Fortunately for my potential myopic, short, neurotic descendents, I've decided not to reproduce. Squat goblinness runs in my family.

Someone should tell that dude that the Morlocks ate the Eloi, so who's the superior being now?

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

He didn't read The Time Machine!