Another interesting section:
'While Bailão raised more money, Chow had more donors. The financial statements list all contributions over $100, and show Chow had more than 4,300 of them, averaging about $340 each.
By contrast, Bailão’s statement lists only about 1,300, but they averaged more than $1,600 each.'
LOL bit in Ben Spurr's story in the Star about Toronto mayoral by-election finances:
'On June 21, Tory broke his promise to stay out of the race and recorded a message of support for Bailão, while Ford warned Chow would be an “unmitigated disaster” if elected.
One day later Chow received about $53,000 in donations, more than double her campaign’s average daily take, and its fourth best day of the race.'
So a byelection is coming for Ward 20 #Scarborough Southwest, it seems!
Who is the progressive candidate we should all direct our attention, donations, and volunteer time towards? Progress Toronto in 2022 endorsed Kevin Rupasinghe, so maybe he's up for another run?
2022 election results:
Gary Crawford 8216
Parthi Kandavel 6936
Kevin Rupasinghe 3208
It's July 12th!
"Ah, Prime Day on Amazon?" you ask? No!
Today, Olivia Chow will be installed as Mayor of Toronto!
#success! #toronto #yyz #onPoli #voteTO
"Chow agrees with Cruise" is a subhead that made me laugh out loud.
As I thought, in the #Toronto mayor's by-election #OliviaChow won over 60,000 votes to Ana Bailao's just over 19,000 votes in the advanced polls.
On E-day, Bailao won about 216,000 votes to Chow's just under 209,000 votes.
The John Tory endorsement, and the massive robocalling didn't matter. A big chunk of Chow's votes were already in the ballot box.
For those at the Chow victory party, the advanced poll results were counted after the E-day poll results.
Back in Toronto after 10 days in Vancouver. What did I miss?
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