[LINK] "Giambrone mulling run for Toronto mayor"

[rfmcdonald]

I quite like this news.

Adam Giambrone, Toronto's youngest councillor and chairman of the TTC, says a mayoral run next year is a “very real possibility,” a move that would make him the first left-leaning candidate to throw his hat in the ring.

“I have not decided yet, but it looks like it is a very real possibility,” Mr. Giambrone told The Globe and Mail, saying he has spent the last two weeks mulling policy and making phone calls to potential supporters. It's the most explicit he's been yet on his political future at City Hall.

He's the first left-of-centre candidate to step forward since Mayor David Miller's bombshell announcement Sept. 25 that he will not seek a third term, fuelling an unofficial race that's been dominated so far by centre- and right-leaning names.

“I am enjoying the work of improving transit as the chair of the TTC and there is always lots to do in Ward 18, but it may be time to take the next step,” Mr. Giambrone said.

I'd quite like a mayor Adam Giambrone. He has a good record representing Ward 18, where I've lived since I've moved to Toronto, I like most of the TTC policies that he has proposed and enacted, and he's a very pleasant guy to have dinner with, too.