Why it's important to kill off the Pissed-off Taxpayer meme | #TOpoli
The Shiny Object of last fall's municipal election. Anyone who helped make the conversation all about that (and I'm looking at you too, George ... ) bears part of the responsibility for the current Team Ford clusterfuck.
Ladies and gentlemen, @marcusbgee is seeing clearly--Ford math is nonsense: http://bit.ly/omiF67 #topoli (via @michaelshapcott)
@thekeenanwire Is he? Seems Gee (& others) complaint isn't cuts but that they're not being made "humanely." They want foreplay?- @thekeenanwire Fordenstein a creature of Gee's (& others - incld Smitherman's) making. Wasn't alone w his "Toronto has a spending prob" msg.
- @thekeenanwire If Ford starts using big phrases like "austerity measures" he'll win back Gee overnight...
@UnionSt @thekeenanwire Gee bears part of the responsibility for helping him win in the first place, so not that long a journey.- @orwellsbastard @unionst Remember when Dalton Camp became a leftist critic of Harris and Chretien. Like St Paul on the road to Damascus.
- @orwellsbastard @unionst I'm prepared to line up beside converts who have seen the light. Even temporarily.
- @orwellsbastard @unionst anyhow, I liked that column. I haven't liked too many of his. So I pointed it out. Not nominating him for mayor.
- @thekeenanwire @unionst I remember watching Dalton Camp on a TVO panel years ago with Ezra IrreLevant. Little shit kept interrupting ...
- @thekeenanwire @unionst I wanted to reach into the screen and smack him. What stayed with me was the look of incredulity on Camp's face ...
- @thekeenanwire @unionst Camp was a gentleman. He just couldn't fathom how anyone could possibly be so crass and ill-mannered.
Ain't it the truth. RT @orwellsbastard: @UnionSt @thekeenanwire Gee bears part of responsibility for helping [Ford] win in the first place- @orwellsbastard @timfalconer @thekeenanwire "…anyone who helped perpetuate the 'pissed-off taxpayer'" Included Ford's closest rival.
- @orwellsbastard @unionst @thekeenanwire Think many journalists who covered Miller did a dishonest or incompetent job (except John Barber)
- @UnionSt @orwellsbastard @timfalconer yup. Gave away the race by letting the slowest guy define the pace.
- @timfalconer @orwellsbastard @unionst I think none of them took him seriously until it was almost over.
- @timfalconer @unionst @thekeenanwire Which is why we need to have an honest conversation about taxation. Call me a starry-eyed idealist.
