I really hope that Lying Lucy loses. I find the whole appointment process really bad. Like I really hate the other candidates in ward 23 but I cannot support someone so corrupt that they would run after claiming they wouldn't.
As a aside, the appointment process is an embarrassment. However, I place the blame on the entirety of council. it should be really obvious that hte appointment process could be railroaded for political gain. This process has been in place for the entirety of amalgamated Toronto history, yet there has been no move to change it as far as I know. David Miller didn't, Rob Ford didn't. Also, Paul Ainslie pulled something similar in 2006, he was appointed to Ward 41 near the end of the council term then ran in Ward 43 and won. So there is precedence for this. Yet nothing was done.
Why has nobody done anything about it? At least ask the province to change legislation.