Please take one for for the team, Toronto.
We don’t want him back.
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Update:
‘Furious George’ Smitherman was the premier’s enforcer - Jim Coyle
…That Furious George was, as the Star’s Robert Benzie has reported, “gang-tackled” by his cabinet colleagues on the concessions he was making to Samsung was remarkable.
That word of this leaked out spoke volumes about the declining regard in which he was held…
Somewhat related - McGuinty blows smoke on wind – Lorrie Goldstein
(H/T)
Good Riddance, Smitherman. You can have him, Toronto. – Wind Concerns Ontario
And straight out of Bizarro World: Warren Kinsella votes Tory (Globe)
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Sunday Update:
Lobbyist played dual role – Sun:
The Toronto Centre Liberal riding association raised nearly $430,000 for George Smitherman in 2008 — the same year its president, Jason Grier, lobbied ministries Smitherman led for a long list of corporate and government clients.
The vice-president of Canadian communications consultancy firm Hill and Knowlton has been the volunteer head of the riding association since March 11, 2008 — where he oversaw a successful fundraising campaign that has made it by far the richest in the party — dwarfing even Premier Dalton McGuinty’s riding…
