{"id":7300,"date":"2009-10-19T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:11:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:11:54","slug":"john-lorinc-the-blunderbuss-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/10\/19\/john-lorinc-the-blunderbuss-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN LORINC: The Blunderbuss Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As this space serves as an excellent soapbox, I’d like to use my column to signal my intent — subject to various and sundry considerations — to run for mayor, and I can reveal here that my candidacy will focus on only one promise: the introduction of road tolls.<\/p>\n

According to the usual well-placed sources, I also understand that my esteemed colleague and Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett intends to run for mayor next year, on a platform that focuses exclusively on the need to implement beautiful urban design elements into every infrastructure project.<\/p>\n

As conscience-bound lefties, we are both encouraging Councillor Gord Perks in his apparent decision to run for mayor, and we are led to understand that he wishes to use his candidacy to promote the cause of social justice.<\/p>\n

Our collective candidacies, in turn, will complement those of TTC chair Adam Giambrone, who will attract the votes of those individuals concerned about the need to invest in transit, and the urbanist maven Glen Murray, who appears to be positioning himself as the Barbara Hall of the 2010 election.<\/p>\n

Lest we neglect those communities located beyond Bloor\/Danforth, we are relieved to learn that Councillor Shelley Carroll is said to be thinking of establishing a committee to study the possibility of her seeking some higher public office in or around 2010.\u00a0 It is reliably rumoured that there are progressive voters in the pre-amalgamation suburbs, and surely they also need someone to vote for next year.<\/p>\n

Thus configured, the 2010 election will feature left-of-centre mayoral candidates for every subset of the city’s fragmented left-of-centre electorate — a kind of one-stop shopping approach for progressive-minded Torontonians.<\/p>\n

Now that my tongue is no longer planted firmly in cheek, my point, of course, is that the unseemly spectacle of a race that includes some combination of Murray, Giambrone and Carroll leads directly to a John Tory victory. The Conservative-Liberal coalition that backed Tory in 2003 is reassembling. Its backers are working hard<\/a> to ensure their candidate won’t share the ballot with Michael Thompson or Karen Stintz, who will, in turn, be rewarded for their political forbearance.<\/p>\n

Does the centre-left have that kind of discipline? Right now, the answer looks to be no, because the centre-left has no centre.<\/p>\n

If I’m Tory, I’m laughing at the musings of Murray and Giambrone. Murray, like Hall, is seeking to resurrect a political career that ended with a thud many years ago. Giambrone, with his undisguised NDP connections, has absolutely no chance at winning, as his purchase on midtown or suburban homeowners in post-Miller Toronto is non-existent.<\/p>\n

The centre-left’s primary challenge in this election will be to make a persuasive case against retrenchment. The pendulum is swinging back. A divided left will simply give that wrecking ball a helpful push.<\/p>\n

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