Is David Miller Getting Nervous?
With an election nine months away, there are signs David Miller is starting to feel the heat. After promising sweeping reform and vowing to get Toronto’s house in order, the city is faced with a huge deficit and a mayor who appears afraid to talk tough with salary-seeking unions or consider the possibility of users fees as an alternative to higher property taxes.How else to explain the public dressing down that Miller delivered to Glen Grunwald when the Toronto Board of Trade CEO provided feedback last week at a public forum about the 2006 budget. Rather than thank Grunwald for his insight, Miller went on the attack. He later explained he wanted to “clarify” some of the proposals made by Grunwald. My sense is Miller’s re-election campaign is nowhere near a slam dunk because there’s a feeling he’s ineffective and the city is no better now than it was with Mel Lastman at the helm.
February 21, 2006 at 3:23 pm
worse sense Mel left
February 22, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Talked to two former mayors last week (Mel wasn’t one) and they both think that His Blondness can be beat.
One can only hope (or work on someone else’s campaign).
February 22, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Mind if I post a link to your site on my Miller’s Follies blog?
February 23, 2006 at 12:29 am
sure, link away!
July 31, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Umm, too bad more Toronto Voters didn’t read this to think about it. Perhaps more of us would have realized then what we know now because you were already telling us. You got everything right on except it not being a “slam dunk”. Those who voted for him got what they deserve. The attack on Grunwald should have been a signal of things to come.