All Entries Tagged With: "Anthony Furey"
Post: Last Words On The Way To The Ballot Box
The National Post gathers together its municipal pundits to offer their final thoughts to voters on the eve of Monday’s vote: Anthony Furey “This campaign year has taught us just how bankrupt on principles the left has become. When the citizens want subways, Joe Pantalone commits to investing in underground streetcars. When we want to [...]
NP Political Panel: Picking Over The Bones On The Campaign Trail
The National Post’s Political Panel analyzes why former candidate Rocco Rossi never gained significant ground: Goldsbie Shortly after Rocco Rossi announced his withdrawal from the mayor’s race on Wednesday night, Chris Tweeted, “No idea why he didn’t catch on.” To which my response is: Are you effing kidding me? Rossi entered the campaign as a [...]
NP Election Panel: What, There Are 44 Other Races?
The National Post’s municipal political panel turns its attention from the mayoral race to the hotly contested local races: Selley The most symbolic race has to be in Ward 32. With apologies to Kyle Rae and his $12,000 retirement party, Sandra Bussin, of all the councillors, may have done the most to contribute to the [...]
NP Election Panel: Framing The Ford Debate
The National Post Municipal Election Panel features a debate on the “Anyone-But-Ford” movement and whether it deserves the attention it currently enjoys: Furey: I think many people did ignore his issues and did so for a long time. The lone gunman theory of political science suggests that you need to listen most closely to the [...]
NP Election Panel: Is Toronto’s Electoral System Fair?
The weekly instalment of the National Post Municipal Election Panel takes a look at how Toronto elects its councillors and mayor: “GOLDSBIE: This very real conundrum is principally a function of an electoral system that (unlike many cities in the United States and elsewhere) does not include runoffs, preferential ballots, or even primaries — mechanisms [...]
NP Election Panel: Mike Harris Becomes An Election Issue
This week’s instalment of the National Post’s municipal election panel features a discussion on former Premier Mike Harris becoming a talking point in the 2010 election: “Goldsbie: As a cultural icon and as a political leader, Mike Harris was like George W. Bush, except without command of an army and with just enough intelligence to [...]
NP Political Panel: The Union Kiss Of Death?
This week’s instalment of the National Post’s municipal election panel has the three talking about the role of unions in this October’s election: Goldsbie: Do union members really vote as homogeneously as all that? I dunno. But I like how Rossi and Thomson insist on having it both ways — repeatedly deploying deliberately divisive rhetoric [...]
NP Election Panel: Pantalone’s Lonely Food Plan
The National Post’s Municipal Election Panel takes a closer look at mayoral candidate Joe Pantalone’s plan to increase “food prosperity”: “SELLEY: If Mayor Joe wants more food grown in Toronto, then he should loosen whatever restrictions there currently are on it and let the communities sort it out. Would that happen? Please. There isn’t a [...]
NP Election Panel: Do Rob Ford’s Views On Gay Marriage Matter?
The National Post’s election panel ponders the significance, if any, of Rob Ford wading into the same-sex marriage debate: SELLEY: Next topic! Seriously, though, I’m starting to think there’s something to Ford’s persecution complex. I mean, he doesn’t like gay marriage. Duh. He’s willing to accept the endorsement of another guy who doesn’t like gay [...]
NP Political Panel: Rob Ford’s Football Follies
This week’s National Post Municipal Election Panel features a discussion about mayoral candidate Rob Ford’s history as a coach and his relationship with the media: “Selley I wasn’t accusing the Star of anything except boring me. But I think the effect of that coverage is fascinating. There is no reason to believe Ford would be [...]
NP Election Panel: Knee-Jerk Reactions To G20 Violence
The National Post Municipal Election Panel reviews the responses to the G20 summit and the actions of police from the various mayoral candidates and local politicians: “Goldsbie I actually found Smitherman’s remarks to be as tepid and intensely hedged as anything he ever says — when pressed, he refuses to use the word “inquiry,” opting [...]
NP Election Panel: Did Rob Ford Have A Giambrone Moment?
The National Post Election Panel discuss what mayoral candidate Rob Ford’s controversial phone call from last week means to his campaign: “GOLDSBIE: This whole incident plays like a satire of Ford’s ethos: he will go to any length to help out a taxpayer who contacts him, but what happens when all the person wants is [...]
NP Election Panel: Is Mammoliti’s Campaign All An Act?
In the latest installment of the National Post’s political panel, the three discuss the candidacy of Giorgio Mammoliti and whether he should be taken seriously: “Selley Hey, I like his Gardiner plan too — a lot, in fact. I hope a viable candidate steals it and makes it a reality. But if it happens, it [...]
NP Political Panel: Promising A Bright Future Of Status Quo
The National Post political panel examines the Joe Pantalone campaign and how the long-time councillor stacks up in the mayoral contest: “Furey: That Pantalone recently polled behind Sarah Thomson shows that he’s done a lousy job of conveying whatever sparse policy ideas he actually has. His main defect — which many political operatives are also [...]
NP Political Panel: Transit Plan Jumps The Rails
The National Post’s Municipal Election Panel takes a look at mayoral candidate George Smitherman’s ‘Transit Delivered’ plan: “Selley: I’m on board with anyone exploring alternative funding models, since we obviously can’t count on senior governments. But I’m struggling to verbalize the extent of my disdain for this plan. It might as well be entitled “More [...]
NP Election Panel: Ford’s Methods Foul Up Valid Views
The Post’s Municipal Election Panel this week discusses the candidacy of mayoral candidate Rob Ford and the resulting impact on the race: “Selley: But Ford hasn’t really said much of anything, has he? Seems to me this might just be a big, early — and perhaps much-needed — “up yours” to the establishment candidates. If [...]
NP Election Panel: Smitherman’s Silent Strategy
The latest installment of the National Post municipal panel has Jonathan Goldsbie and Anthony Furey discussing mayoral candidate George Smitherman’s current “keep your powder dry” campaign strategy: “GOLDSBIE: Just because there are some people on his left and others on his right does not render Smitherman — or anyone else — ipso facto ideologically dispassionate. [...]
