All Entries Tagged With: "Sue-Ann Levy"
Levy: City Hall’s Broken, Voters Want It Fixed
The Sun’s Sue Ann Levy offers her thoughts on last night’s election results – voters are fed up: “By giving Ford the nod, Toronto citizens have said enough to wasteful spending on pet projects while basic needs like road repairs, parks maintenance and our dirty streets are consistently neglected. They’ve said enough to self-serving politicians [...]
Levy: ‘Closet’ Ford Supporters Can Finally Speak
The Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy thinks that the “silent majority” may not admit they support Rob Ford, but will speak tonight: “Why should they come out of the closet, so to speak, when the elitist Lib-left — who feel it is their divine right to control the fiefdom of Toronto — are ready to pounce on them [...]
Levy: Candidate Alleges Opponent’s Breaking The Bank
Sue Ann Levy takes another run at Ward 27 candidate Kristyn Wong-Tam, this time for suspicious campaign spending: Opponent Simon Wookey told reporters Friday it appears Kristyn Wong-Tam has already spent as much as $55,000 on her campaign — 25% more than she is eligible to do under the Municipal Elections Act. According to the [...]
Levy: YWCA Rips Ford But Doesn’t Reveal Leader A Smitherman Backer
Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy reports that the president of YMCA that sent a harsh letter critcizing Rob Ford is a supporter of opponent George Smitherman: “But no one — not [Smitherman surrogate Sarah] Thomson, not the top officials at the YWCA — bothered to mention the board president’s ties with the George Smitherman campaign. Dr. [...]
Levy: Smitherman Shows His True Colours At Debate
The Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy offers that George Smitherman’s response to a heckler was very telling: “The heckling from someone imploring him to “answer the question” came after opponent Joe Pantalone asked Smitherman how he planned to improve services by cutting $808-million from the budget — part of True George’s fiscal platform. Smitherman stopped his explanation [...]
Levy Makes Her Selections
Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy offers her choices in a number of local races across Toronto: “Ward 9, York Centre: After taking her sweet time to return from Italy following the Sunrise Propane explosion in 2008 and cozying up to David Miller for the past seven years, 25-year councillor Maria Augimeri has overstayed her welcome. Despite [...]
Levy: Fear Mongering About Ford
The Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy asks who voters should really fear: “A councillor who practiced what he preached for 10 years — not partaking of any perks of the job — and who consistently exposed the wasteful spending of his socialist colleagues on council? Or a former health minister who had to have his direct responsibility [...]
Levy: Why It’s Time For Change At City Hall
Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy recounts her run-ins with the city’s bureaucracy and concludes that change is needed: “Councillor Doug Holyday feels there’s a “resounding appetite for change” amongst taxpayers. Like Holyday, there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that change is sorely needed at City Hall. Not just tinkering but wholesale change. The next mayor [...]
Levy: Rocco Rossi Should Be Proud
Sue-Ann Levy looks back on the Rocco Rossi campaign, which she thought had a great message that was overshadowed by opponent Rob Ford and voter anger: “After throwing everything in the sink” and having the best two weeks in terms of positive media reaction to his fiscal plan and his platform, he realized he wasn’t [...]
Levy: The Underdogs
The Toronto Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy looks at four local races where spirited campaigns from challengers threaten to topple incumbents: Twenty-six-year-old recently married Shimmy Posen agrees name recognition is the “biggest battle” in his bid to win against 18-year council veteran Joe Mihevc, who recently endorsed George Smitherman (no doubt in a bid to secure the [...]
Levy: Joe Pants Still In The Dark
Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy came off unimpressed with mayoral candidate Joe Panalone’s answers to questions while meeting with the paper’s editorial board: “When we pressed further about the disconnect between the public and Socialist City Hall, Pantalone claimed it was more “myth than reality” and we at the Toronto Sun, in fact, have “fed the [...]
Levy: Sarah Thomson, Easy Lover
Sue-Ann Levy questions Sarah Thomson on why she’s gone from harshly criticizing former opponent George Smitherman on her blog to enthusiastic supporter: When reached Monday afternoon, Thomson at first couldn’t remember writing the blog — she claimed “a lot has happened since” — but later conceded she’d “probably” written it because it was on the [...]
Levy: Ford Math Comes Up Short
While Sue Ann Levy thinks Ford’s core messages are in sync with Toronto voters, she sees some serious holes in his plan: “For one thing, Ford already has a huge black hole to fill if he intends to get rid of the Land Transfer and Personal Vehicle Taxes. Those two taxes combined could represent about [...]
Levy: Rob Ford’s $1,000 Donation
Toronto Sun pundit responds to an Toronto Star article making hay of the fact that mayoral candidate Rob Ford was the top donor to her MPP bid: Fact is, I’ve also come out in support of much of Rocco Rossi’s platform and regret he isn’t higher in the polls. Fact is, for the past seven [...]
Levy: Ford Offers Taxpayers Relief
The Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy thinks Rob Ford’s accountability plan is the right one: “Noting that people are “sick and tired” of the poor customer service they get from City Hall, Ford said he’ll work to ensure that the city’s overpaid staff (my words, not his) — and that includes councillors — return phone calls and [...]
Ford Factor: Liberal’s Desperate Attack
Sue Ann Levy is unimpressed with what she sees as meddling by provincial Liberals in the city’s mayoral race: Wynne hotly denied her unflagging support for Smitherman — and that of the entire Liberal caucus — has anything to do with concern for what a Rob Ford mayoralty will mean for their own Liberal fortunes [...]
Levy: Rocco Rossi Is On Fire
After moderating a mayoral debate earlier in the week, Sue-Ann Levy comes off impressed with mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi: “Rob Ford, who stuck pretty much to his “the gravy train is over” message, seemed to be out of gas, at least Monday night. On the other hand, Rossi was really cooking with gas — and [...]
