All Entries Tagged With: "Giorgio Mammoliti"

NP Election Panel: The Sex, Drugs, Rock Campaign

This week’s municipal election panel in the National Post looks at the demise of the Mammoliti campaign and the interest in “the other Rocco”:
“GOLDSBIE When the campaign period began in January, I really didn’t expect the mayoral race to tread through all three of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Not before Labour Day, anyway. [...]

Nickle: Mammoliti’s Withdrawal Sets Stage For Serious Discussion Of Mayoral Issues

Toronto Community News’ David Nickle says that now that Mammoliti has left the race for mayor, it opens the opportunity for a debate on the issues:
“[H]is farewell speech – delivered six months to the day after he filed his nomination papers – was something other: a humble and thoughtful reflection on a campaign that has [...]

I Told You So: York West Candidates On Mammoliti Decision

The candidates who now have to face former mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti in Ward 7 now that he is running for re-election as councillor tell Toronto Community News they knew this would happen.

Mammoliti Drops Out Of Toronto Mayoral Race

As reported on TEN yesterday, mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti has ended his bid to become Toronto’s next mayor and will run again as a candidate for councillor in Ward 7:
“Mr. Mammoliti said he failed to meet his half-million dollar fundraising goal by the end of June, but that the motivating issue behind his [...]

Mayoral Race Will Thin Out: Pantalone

Mayoral candidate Joe Pantalone tells the Toronto Sun that opponent Giorgio Mammoliti will not be the last to resign from the ballot for mayor:
“Toronto’s deputy mayor predicted Sunday that he will be fighting it out with only Councillor Rob Ford and former Liberal cabinet minister George Smitherman in the final days of the [...]

Rob Ford Stands To Gain As Giorgio Mammoliti Withdraws

With mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti poised to leave the contest for mayor today, the Star speculates that rival Rob Ford stands to gain the most from Mammoliti’s decision:
“Internal polling from the Mammoliti camp shows virtually all of the right-wing councillor’s support would fall to his conservative rival.  While Mammoliti only holds about four per [...]

Mammoliti Out Of Mayor’s Race

According to media reports, mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti will be announcing on Monday that he will be droping out of the contest for mayor to run for re-election in Ward 7:
“A source close to the campaign tells the Sun Mammoliti will announce Monday that he’s dropping out of the race to replace Mayor David [...]

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, [...]

Mammoliti Plan Turns Gardiner Into Garden

As featured yesterday on TEN, the Giorgio Mammoliti campaign has unveiled an ambitious $1.3 billion revitalization plan for the city’s waterfront:
“It’s ambitious, but I think we can do it,” [Mammoliti] said. “We’ve clearly lost sight of how we could potentially be managing [Toronto’s waterfront].”
Mr. Mammoliti’s four-year plan would split several kilometres of what’s [...]

Mammoliti Envisions Revived Waterfront

The National Post has received a sneak peek of mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti’s $1.3 Billion plan to completely revamp the city’s waterfront:
“It turns this whole waterfront into a spectacular waterfront that creates its own civic identity,” Mr. Mammoliti said yesterday, noting rapid transit plays a “major role” in the vision. “You’ll see tourists [...]

Mayoral Candidate Vows 5% Property Tax Cut

Mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti has pledged that if elected, he will cut taxes across the board for residents and business, but will also offer additional tax relief to seniors:
“Torontonians are being unfairly taxed by a municipal government that refuses to seek alternative options to alleviate rising taxes incurred by the residents of Toronto.”
He [...]

Would-Be Mayors Turn To New Media

The Toronto Sun reports on the mayoral candidates who have taken to social media to get their message out, including Giorgio Mammoliti, who has deployed video ads to push his message:
“Mammoliti hopes to make a big cyber splash by unleashing a stack of short, high-quality videos.  In one 30-second video sent to the Sun [...]

Sun Ed: Giorgio Mammoliti Misfires

The Toronto Sun Editorial Board pulls no punches on assessing mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti’s latest policy announcement to arm by-law officers:
“His radio ads end with the tag line, “let them call me outrageous.”
Actually, “outrageous” would be an improvement for Mammoliti, who is rapidly approaching “irrelevant,” with occasional gusts up to “idiotic.”
Now, it’s one thing [...]

Levy: Pride Parade Controversy Brewing

Toronto Sun pundit Sue-Ann Levy reports that a number of the mayoral candidates are wading in to the debate over whether a group protesting “Israeli Apartheid” should be able to participate in this year’s Pride parade:
“Mammoliti said he decided to step up to the plate because he did not agree with the move by [...]

Mammoliti Shot Down For Aiming To Arm Bylaw Officers

Mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti got people talking about his proposal to arm the city’s by-law officers.  His opponents were quick to dismiss the idea as “outrageous”, amongst other things:
“I like Giorgio, but this idea is absurd,” west-end councillor and deputy mayor Joe Pantalone said. “Fighting a spray can with a gun doesn’t seem [...]

Levy: Giorgio Down — But Not Out

The Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy talks to mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti, who she thinks is raising important issues in the public debate: 

“I shudder at the idea of a pistol-packing bylaw officer trying to chase down the poor seniors who were walking in Humber Bay park without a permit or citizens who are caught [...]

Team Mammoliti Cheats On Clean Up Contest?

It looks like mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti has created some sore feelings after winning the coveted Danforth Earth Day Trash Can Trophy at a community cleanup event over the weekend.  Although she doesn’t say it directly, local Green candidate Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu seems to imply that Team Mammoliti was less than honest in their cleanup techniques:
“Still [...]