“Giambrone’s brief bid to become Toronto’s mayor started with an amateur video, ended in amateur hour, and hurt a lot of people in the 10 lacklustre days in between. The pre-launch video did note a candidate must have a token prop. Who knew that prop would be his partner?”

Read the rest of the article here. 

Related: Adam Giambrone’s electronic skeletons unleashed (Toronto Sun)

Online magazine Torontoist takes the Toronto Sun to task for publishing articles related to the Giambrone affair that relied heavily on dubious pictures (see above) and information provided by gossip blogger Zack Taylor:

“Over the past week, as the Adam Giambrone scandal came to a head and then popped, gossip blogger Zack Taylor has published two breathless—and obviously dubious—stories about the former mayoral candidate in an attempt to cash in. We’d call that attempt “futile,” but it hasn’t been: the Toronto Sun, an actual newspaper with people who have job titles like “reporter” and “editor,” has picked up both of Taylor’s stories, and republished the details in them, with apparently no research of their own of Taylor’s claims whatsoever.”

Read the rest of the article here.

Photo courtesy: National Post

At least one councillor thinks that Toronto City Hall would be a much happier place if everyone spent more time between the sheets:

“I think more people at City Council need sex,” [Ward 27 Councillor Kyle] Rae told me yesterday at his office, on whose window is posted the following sign: “You are now entering a clothing-optional area.” Everyone is free to ride the rocket that they choose, of course. Mr. Rae, who is married to Mark Reid, his partner since 1994, didn’t have much advice for Mr. Giambrone, other than to say, “People have to manage their sexual relationships in an honest manner.”

Read the rest of the article here.

“The wider question is that in a world full of flawed individuals –or sinners as the church would say- who amongst us can throw the first stone? Well to be frank, any one of us who hasn’t cheated on their partner for starters.  That faithfulness is hard is no excuse for infidelity to be greeted with shoulder shrugging.  Do we have the right to judge? Sure. The fact that we have all done things we regret doesn’t mean that transgressions don’t have consequences.”

Read the rest of his column here.

“What amazes me about these people is why they think they won’t get caught – especially in a tell-all age when every contact leaves a digital trail.

“Did he learn nothing from Tiger Woods? The moral of that story ought to be engraved on the cellphones of cheaters everywhere: Whatever else you do, don’t have text with that woman!”

Read the rest of her thoughts here.

“Not unlike his TTC union buddies, he also thought himself “entitled.” He felt he could use his City Hall office for sex, he could text his harem (likely during city meetings), he could pillow talk TTC trade secrets — in other words he could do whatever he damn well pleased.

Like his mentor David Miller, he thought himself untouchable.”

Read the rest of her column here.

Photo courtesy: Torontoist

At a 11am news conference, TTC Chair Adam Giambrone ended his mayoral bid after launching his campaign just over a week ago.

“At a news conference Wednesday, he read a one-minute statement that apologized to his fellow councillors, to the young people of the city and in particular to his live-in girlfriend Sarah McQuarrie.

“I humbly apologize my fellow councillors for the negative attention I gave them,” he said. Then he apologized “to the community and to the young people who believed in me. Finally, I deeply apologize my partner Sarah.”

Then Giambrone abruptly left the podium without taking questions. Minutes later, an aide took the podium and told reporters that Giambrone’s campaign was over.”

Read the rest of the article here.    Listen to his assistant’s statement here.

Spacing has the official statement here.

Related: Giambrone offers brief apology, exits mayor’s race (Globe & Mail)

Also: Adam Giambrone quits mayoralty race (National Post)

“[W]hat pushes alpha men is the idea of success, the idea of winning – whether it’s winning votes or winning women; it’s a psychosocial compulsion. To win, alpha men are inclined to take risks and they rarely if ever think they’re going to get caught.”

Read the rest of the column here.

“Adam Giambrone: Can’t run the TTC. Can’t run his personal life.

Not much of a campaign slogan, but apparently he still wants to be mayor.

Giambrone denies there was sex, but confessing only when the jig is up isn’t noble. Nor does it instill confidence that Giambrone is either ready or mature enough for the hot seat of the mayor’s chair.”

Read the rest of the editorial here.

“He can’t present himself at the launch of his campaign for mayor as the all-Canadian boy, with the stunning “longtime live-in partner” Sarah McQuarrie on his arm, when – according to his own text messages to his concubine – McQuarrie is just there for show, a prop, for “political reasons.”

Simply, Giambrone is a fraud.”

Read the rest of Royson’s thoughts here.