This election reminds me of nothing so much as the 2005 Simpsons episode "See Homer Run," in which a byelection is called in Springfield, and over 200 kooks, cranks and assorted zanies (including Homer Simpson himself) run for the position of Mayor. Of course, with no other credible candidates...

I'm just wondering why people haven't started referring to Brad Bradford as "Brad Brad." You know, like John John. Or Bam Bam. (Or Dum Dum.)

A turd on a string would have been less dismal than Del Duca.

If Tory tries to slither off the hook and stick around, contrary to his initial offer of resigning, I'd say he's making a mistake. The only thing he really had going for him was the claim that he returned City Hall to a state of normalcy after Rofo turned the Mayor's office into a particularly...

Agreed and agreed. There's something strangely old-fashioned about this particular scandal. How many politicians nowadays would willingly vacate their positions because of a mere affair? Many (most?) of them would probably attempt to brazen it out, certainly the Ford types would. I can see...

I don't know that that's necessarily the case across the board, Beez. I think there are a not insignificant amount of people who vote for ideological reasons or out of sheer spite, whether their motive is to stick it to the libtards or the deplorables. These types then find themselves supporting...

We really must thank the Liberals yet again for nominating such an utterly hapless, hopeless, helpless sack of protoplasam for their party 'leader' in the last election. Thanks, guys. Much appreciated.

That's a ghoulish thought, isn't it? Well...to give Mikey his due: he's not the walking scandal factory that his uncles were/are. I'll say that for him, low bar as it obviously is. On a personal level, he's not as nasty a piece of work as either Slob or Thug...as far as we know. Nor does he...

Exactly. Tory's a blandly inoffensive fellow, and is probably the closest thing to a genuine moderate we're ever going to see from the Conservative movement these days. It's telling that whenever they're mad at him, our local reactionaries tend to refer to the man as "John Liberal." Pathetically...

So Brown actually won, eh? I wonder what Doug Ford will do to screw him over this time?

Does anyone have any recommendations on who to vote for in Ward 13? I suppose I should be embarrassed to admit this, but what the hell: I have no idea who any of these people are.

Its remarkable when you think about it. Clusterfucks of this nature usually have all sorts of factors contributing to them, even when - as is so often the case with politics - genuinely malignant personalities are involved. Bad timing, unintended consequences, even just plain old bad luck; they...

Not to state the obvious, but that bee would have made a better leader than the complete and utter flop the Libs were stupid enough to force on us during the last election.

Over the past year or so I've asked in a couple of different subject threads here if anyone had an explanation for the apparent enmity our beloved Premiere seemed to hold against Brown, and nobody ever really came up with an actual reason for it. Of course, in Ford's case the waters are kind of...

I knew Brown wouldn't get anywhere. The poor loser. I almost feel kinda sorry for him. Almost.

Well, I don't disagree, Lucy. After all, I did the same thing myself. I even voted for the Liberals, as much as I've been bad-mouthing them here. And apparently, the Libs are no longer the automatic "safe" vote (in the city, at least) if you simply want to boot out some brutish mouth-frother...

Honestly, I don't give a toss about the Liberals. I'm just angry at the role they played in this fiasco of an election and the responsibility they bear for the continuing mess we find ourselves in. It's funny: For once, I don't feel any ill will towards the average voters for a truly appalling...

In fairness to the 905, they're willing to vote for the Liberals if they seemingly have something on the ball...or give them a chance at times when they're lacking even that quality if the competition (i.e. the Tories) is equally crap. They voted for Kathleen Wynne, didn't they? Del Duca was...

Some years back, the conservative newspaper columnist George Will smugly asserted that low voter turnout for elections "proved" that the general public was perfectly happy with the way things were going...because otherwise, they'd show up to vote, right? I expect that if its rightly pointed out...

At least Horwath is doing the right thing. I honestly thought she might try to use the whole "Official Opposition Leader Twice in a Row!" status as a specious justification for hanging on as leader of her party. Of course, I'm getting a little ahead of myself, seeing as the votes haven't been...