Another Poll: Chow Ahead

Olivia Chow led the field of mayoral candidates in a poll conducted the day of her official campaign launch event.

Chow had the support of 36 per cent of respondents, incumbent Rob Ford 28 per cent, John Tory 22 per cent. They all held wide leads over Karen Stintz at 5 per cent and David Soknacki at 2 per cent. Seven per cent were undecided.

Of course, as the story notes, this poll ran the day of her launch, so it comes in the midst of a wave of positive publicity.  Also worth commenting upon is how awful things have gone for Karen Stintz, who was willing to put the city 100-mil in the hole to fuel her base mayoral ambitions.  BURN IN HELL EVIL WOMAN!

And Dave Soknacki is holding strong at 2 per cent.

The Stintz Line: Soknacki On Stintz

Click on it to see it better.

As I've mentioned previously, David Soknacki is an intriguing candidate, and I predict that his anti-Scarborough subway stance will prove to be surprisingly popular now that the bill for it has come due. I have not heard the fellow speak, but a lobbyist friend has and tells me that the fellow is, well, not very charismatic.  That may be a wee problem.

Nevertheless, the piece above is quite clever.

David Soknacki's Modest Proposal

Mayoral candidate David Soknacki announces if elected he'd kill Scarborough subway and instead revert to LRT pic.twitter.com/8KEnuxLzQ7
— Natalie Johnson (@NatalieCTV) January 14, 2014

I'm one of the many, many Scarberians whose property taxes will go up to pay for that damned project, but who will almost certainly never use it...it's miles away...so I am all for this.  End the 1.6 per cent tax-hike!  Soknacki can't win, but he sure has found an interesting way to distinguish himself from the rest of the candidates.