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The next Municipal Election is on October 25, 2010 when Torontonians have to elect a new mayor and 44 city councillors. Here are list of candidates that are still running for the Mayor position:
Don Andrews
Andrews, 67, is a White supremacist who has been running for Mayor position a number of times. He got 0.17% of the votes in 2003.
Andrew Barton
27 years old science fiction writer.
Wendell Brereton
Former veteran of the Ontario Provincial Police for 12 years. He is entrepreneur and activist in the community for at least 18 years.
Douglas Campbell
In 1988, Campbell run as a candidate for mayor of North York and most recently he has run for Mayor of Toronto in 2000, 2003 and 2006 receiving only no more than 1.2% of the votes on these two occasions. He has some exterme views on businessmen and capitalism.
Mark Cidade
Cidade, 32, is a computer geek and an artist.
Keith Cole
Rob Ford
Ford, 4o, has been an Etobicoke North city conserative councillor for 10 years. He claims he is the third position with 13% support. He is also endorsed by Councilor Frances Nunziata. His campaign promises include repealing the vehicle registration tax, repealing the land transfer tax, making the TTC an essential service and working to cut the number of city councillors by half.
Baquie Ghazi
He ran for councillor from Ward 28 in 2006 and received only 3.3% of the vote.
Monoway Hossain
He run for Mayor position in 2003 and 2006. He received under 3,000 votes. He has worked as a lawyer and investment advisor. In his campaign he has promised to provide housing and food for Toronto’s unemployed and help re-integrate them in to the workforce. He has made some odd comments in the past about rescuing people from traps like psychologists.
John Letonja
His campaign centers around overhauling TTC and investing heavily in recycling programs.
Giorgio Mammoliti
He has been York West city councillor since 1995 and he has serveed on Miller’s Executive Committee. He is a former union leader and NDP MPP who has moved to righ-of-centre. His platform includes building a casino, introducing a municipal lottery, reversing tax increases that he has voted for in the past. In the past he has also voted for creating a red light district. He is proposing to cut Toronto’s budget and giving $40M to arts, cultural and communit groups.
Joseph Pampena
He is promising to raise revenue for the city by selling naming rights of pools and recreation centres.
Joe Pantalone
He is endorsed by 11 Toronto Councillors. Pantalone, 57, is Deputy Mayor under David Miller and has been city councilor for Trinity-Spadina for almost 30 years. He has extensive experience in municipal politics. If elected, he plans to protect our services and will partnership with private sector to rebuild transit service. He has mentioned he will not privatize services.
Rocco Rossi
Rossi, 47, is a Libral Party organizer and senior advisor to Michael Ignatieff. He is promising to freeze the mayor’s salary and privatize Toronto Hydro and other city assets if elected. He will also remove and prohibit bike lanes from major streets, freeze construction of rapid transit lines and replace TTC board with private sector experts.
George Smitherman
He is endorsed by Bob Rae. Smitherman, 45 is a former Liberal MPP for Toronto Center, former Deputy Premier of Ontario and Former chief of staff for Barbara Hall. He is considering introducing toll roads to raise city revenue and using Private sector partnership in public works projects. He has also proposed reducing or even eliminating $60 city motor registration fee.
Mark State
A retired engineer who run as mayor in 2006 and came last with 194 votes.
Tom Sullivan
Sarah Thomson
She is CEO and founder of the Women’s Post, a magazine for business women. She is promising competitive bidding from the private sector for city projects. She is also proposing construction of new subway lines instead of TTC’s planned rapid transit streetcar.
Ratan Wadhwa
Sonny Yeung
He run for council in 2003 in Scarborough-Rouge River Ward where he won 25.4%. He run again in 2006 and came 7th in the race.
