Laurent Blanchard and Harout Chitilian are expected to be the top two vote-getters Tuesday with Alan DeSousa possibly winning if the candidates split.
All of five candidates are boasting that they have 20 votes each but, of course, there are only 62 councillors, so someone's math is wrong.
I'd like to see DeSousa win because I like a politician who knows how to talk.
Chitililan, whose name I had never heard until a couple of weeks ago, looks a bit like Lurch from the Adams Family.
I'm predicting a Blanchard victory, but hope that DeSousa pulls a Tommy Carcetti and edges him out.
Blanchard, 60, doesn't like to wake up early, we know that about him.
We also know that he is from the east end and tried to run a community paper for a while. Community papers invariably start as ambitious attempts at acting as watchdogs but quickly get hooked onto the city-borough advertising revenues and never publish anything critical again, leading to an erosion of democracy.
I don't know if that's what happened to his paper but he eventually joined as a Dore staffer, which tells you something.
He was elected in 2005 to the Tremblay team and might be best known for his bathrobe protest, in which he expressed opposition to a 6 a.m. council meeting by showing up in a bathrobe. Yeah I never heard of it either. We give Alex Norris a hard time for not wanting to wear a tie (btw, he apparently has been converted and is seen wearing a tie all over the place these days) but this guy's sartorial challenge might've been a lot more terry-clothy.
As for Chitilian, he can't talk clearly at all and is very tall. If you're over 6'1" you've probably floated higher than you should have up the ladder because bosses tend to promote tall people based on subconscious reptilian reflex, so I demand immediate proof of ability when I see someone hovering above.
The other two candidates, Poitras-hyphen and whoever the fifth one is, don't stand a chance.
(We need to enact a bylaw very fast to prevent anybody with a hyphenated last name from entering politics).
You'll note that outgoing mayor Michael Applebaum wrote his resignation own speech, the one where he said, "I never took a cent."
He also said, "I understand your deception." (In English.)
He understands out deception? WTF? He understands our deception.
He is saying that we have been deceived. Is he admitting that he deceived us?
Seriously, that was a pretty nasty mistake.
Applebaum, allegedly an English speaker, apparently thought that the French word deception, ie: disappointment, is the same as in English. So perhaps he didn't write his own speech after all.
All of five candidates are boasting that they have 20 votes each but, of course, there are only 62 councillors, so someone's math is wrong.
I'd like to see DeSousa win because I like a politician who knows how to talk.
Chitililan, whose name I had never heard until a couple of weeks ago, looks a bit like Lurch from the Adams Family.
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Blanchard, 60, doesn't like to wake up early, we know that about him.
We also know that he is from the east end and tried to run a community paper for a while. Community papers invariably start as ambitious attempts at acting as watchdogs but quickly get hooked onto the city-borough advertising revenues and never publish anything critical again, leading to an erosion of democracy.
I don't know if that's what happened to his paper but he eventually joined as a Dore staffer, which tells you something.
He was elected in 2005 to the Tremblay team and might be best known for his bathrobe protest, in which he expressed opposition to a 6 a.m. council meeting by showing up in a bathrobe. Yeah I never heard of it either. We give Alex Norris a hard time for not wanting to wear a tie (btw, he apparently has been converted and is seen wearing a tie all over the place these days) but this guy's sartorial challenge might've been a lot more terry-clothy.
As for Chitilian, he can't talk clearly at all and is very tall. If you're over 6'1" you've probably floated higher than you should have up the ladder because bosses tend to promote tall people based on subconscious reptilian reflex, so I demand immediate proof of ability when I see someone hovering above.
The other two candidates, Poitras-hyphen and whoever the fifth one is, don't stand a chance.
(We need to enact a bylaw very fast to prevent anybody with a hyphenated last name from entering politics).
You'll note that outgoing mayor Michael Applebaum wrote his resignation own speech, the one where he said, "I never took a cent."
He also said, "I understand your deception." (In English.)
He understands out deception? WTF? He understands our deception.
He is saying that we have been deceived. Is he admitting that he deceived us?
Seriously, that was a pretty nasty mistake.
Applebaum, allegedly an English speaker, apparently thought that the French word deception, ie: disappointment, is the same as in English. So perhaps he didn't write his own speech after all.