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Originally posted by FunkyCrew his bedroom issues have nothing to do with what he does at work and it should stay that way. politicians are only human - and humans will and can cheat it doesn't make him by default a worse candidate to run the city IMO of course

sure it does.

It's not just about his "bedroom issues". This is a guy that easily and purposely deceived the person closest to him for over a year. He also blabbed about city/TTC business to his mistress.

Perhaps that's not a big deal to some, but it sure as makes me question his integrity, and his ability to run the largest city in Canada. I'm sure the majority would agree.

If buddy was smart, he would drop out now and save his effort and a whole lot of cash. Anyone running against him is going to be using this as ammo, and lets be honest, his reputation really sucks at this current point in time. I think his age will work against him to. People will view him as too young and too inexperienced to be mayor.

LOL!

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...le-affairs?bn=1

OF COURSE HE HAD MULTIPLE AFFAIRS!

This guy is toast

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker Either way, this guy needs to get the hell out of politics.

lol. as if.


anyways, you people really surprised?

a guy, 32 years old, fairly fit, nerd appeal, NOT MARRIED, what else do you expect?

end his career? as if, so what if a non-married guy has had some relations? at least he didn't marry his live in "friend" and have kids.

Also, like his partner didn't know about this? it is obvious she was just there to be the "political partner". if he didn't propose already then what do you expect?

I think now at this point, he's more tarnished by the fact that he changed his story part way through the scandal. It's not as if he said there was only one and then more women came forward. He didn't think about his response the first time - clearly his instinct was to cover up the truth.

He's holding a press conference at 11 where he'll most likely drop the mayoral campaign. It's too bad this all came about. I personally would like to have seen how far someone his age could have gotten.

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Originally posted by StereoPrincess end his career? as if, so what if a non-married guy has had some relations? at least he didn't marry his live in "friend" and have kids. Also, like his partner didn't know about this? it is obvious she was just there to be the "political partner". if he didn't propose already then what do you expect?

So you're saying cheating is cool, just as long as you aren't married and haven't proposed to your significant other?

And you know, it's very well possible when someone is LYING and HIDING things that the girlfriend couldn't find out. Especially given his career. That's a pretty handy excuse right there for not being around and having to leave at a moments notice.

Apparently there's now talk of a few men coming out and saying that they had 'relations' with him in addition to the women....not that it should matter since his relationship with his 'partner' probably wasn't legitimate in the first place since its purpose was just to help him advance his political career anyways...

Overall, I think this guy is a big liar who thinks he can get away with whatever he wants....I really couldn't care less about his personal life....this isn't about sex...it's about the integrity of his character which I feel is seriously lacking...

I found this article from The Star today to be interesting...

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...ut-of-race?bn=1

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Originally posted by activate So you're saying cheating is cool, just as long as you aren't married and haven't proposed to your significant other?

We dont know the arrangement he had with his supposed girlfriend...maybe they had an open relationship?

I think cheating on your wife is significantly more distressing...but that's just me

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Originally posted by StereoPrincess lol. as if. anyways, you people really surprised? a guy, 32 years old, fairly fit, nerd appeal, NOT MARRIED, what else do you expect? end his career? as if, so what if a non-married guy has had some relations? at least he didn't marry his live in "friend" and have kids. Also, like his partner didn't know about this? it is obvious she was just there to be the "political partner". if he didn't propose already then what do you expect?

for once we agree!


This is much ado about nothing.

Oh sweet f*ckin' jesus, you're a politician's dream... dude comes in for a free lunch, puts on a fake smile for an hour or two and you're wiping his boots. You do realize that this is what they do for a living, right? It wasn't a personal favour. [/QUOTE]

Call me whatever you want..I'm asking YOU, other than what you hear in the media..have you had ANY interactions with this person in order to call him whatever you called him??

WHAT ARE YOU BASING YOUR OPINION OF HIM ON?

What I'm saying is that I have met him and he seemed like a decent person and did a really nice thing for my agency. I did point out that there was no hoopla involved in the fund raising event. No public pictures, dignitaries, newspapers..nothing.

He did it as a nice gesture to a small agency trying to raise some money to work with homeless people. To be honest, I would argue and say that it was a personal favour.

Keep leaning to the right, hopefully you'll fall over the edge soon..

And that's that...

He couldn't even bow out himself..

Had his exec assistant make the announcement...

I can't wait for his next Dean Blundell appearance...

^^
hopefully he gives up his TTC job as well...

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Originally posted by activate So you're saying cheating is cool, just as long as you aren't married and haven't proposed to your significant other?

i am not saying that but i am saying that there is a scale.

married for 10 years with 3 kids and cheating is way worse that living with someone couple of years and obviously having some sort of arrangement.

i heard he is bisexual too.

the ashley madison guy was on dean blundell today and was actually really nice about the whole thing. but the ttc saying that they thing ashley madison doesn't fit their moral standard is sort of bullshit.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 for once we agree! This is much ado about nothing.

lol. i don't agree that we agree.

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Originally posted by gummybear Oh sweet f*ckin' jesus, you're a politician's dream... dude comes in for a free lunch, puts on a fake smile for an hour or two and you're wiping his boots. You do realize that this is what they do for a living, right? It wasn't a personal favour.

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Call me whatever you want..I'm asking YOU, other than what you hear in the media..have you had ANY interactions with this person in order to call him whatever you called him?? WHAT ARE YOU BASING YOUR OPINION OF HIM ON? What I'm saying is that I have met him and he seemed like a decent person and did a really nice thing for my agency. I did point out that there was no hoopla involved in the fund raising event. No public pictures, dignitaries, newspapers..nothing. He did it as a nice gesture to a small agency trying to raise some money to work with homeless people. To be honest, I would argue and say that it was a personal favour. Keep leaning to the right, hopefully you'll fall over the edge soon..

there are a lot of lousy politicians that are great guys. There are a lot of great politicians that are lousy guys.

Aside from his personal affairs, Giambrone is a lousy politician. Look at the TTC for starters, and how he managed to piss off everyone on Lansdowne ave and Dundas St W with his anti car, anti business attitude.

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Originally posted by StereoPrincess lol. i don't agree that we agree.

hahaha

the earth is round (or at very least a curved shape). Do you agree or disagree?

Oh boy, if there are men involved...

In any event, I'm glad my tax dollars aren't paying for the spot on the voters card where his name would have to go.

pff. who cares!

One can be an amazing mathematician but suck bad in chemistry or literature! Just cause he fails in any other science, doesn't mean he can't be a mathematics Genius!

Giambrone being a slut doesn't make him a bad politician. Give me a break!

There seems to be a lot of people who don't care that have posted in this thread.... hmmm....

Adam Giambrone and Our Need for Political Wives

Most of us woke up this morning to the news that TTC chair and mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone (Ward 18, Davenport) was apologizing for an "inappropriate relationship" he had been having for the past year or so with a young woman who was not his live-in partner. Reaction has covered all the usual talking points, with competing choruses of Who cares about politicians' personal lives? and How can someone who'd betray his partner be trusted to run the city? playing out in newspaper comment sections and coffee shops across the city.

If history is any guide, there is little correlation between a politician's personal life and his or her ability to lead. There have been bad faithful politicians and great adulterous ones, just as there have been politicians who have been both successful and faithful and others who have failed on both counts at once. We all would prefer our leaders to be unimpeachable in every respect, but not a single one ever has been and not a single one ever will be. Nor should it be the media's job to hunt down and publish every last vagary of a public figure's personal life.

It is reasonable for voters to rely on all available information in assessing a candidate's worthiness for office, and to debate what of that information is relevant to making the assessment. It will be up to Torontonians to decide, over the course of this election cycle, who has on balance the strengths they most want and the weaknesses they are most willing to live with.

What is, however, quite striking about this situation is what it reveals about our political culture. Specifically, it highlights that we seem somehow still attached to the notion of the political spouse. Right or wrongly, it appears that Giambrone felt his candidacy would benefit from him having a partner by his side. He is young, he is contemporary, he represents a generational shift in the political life of our city. And yet...

We have no interest in speculating on the particulars of Giambrone's personal relationships, we do not yet know how much of the report published today will stand, and we have no idea what further details might emerge. We are seeking neither to exculpate nor to condemn Giambrone�the most any of us can and should do is decide whether or not to vote for him. But we need to move, as a society, past the antiquated and entirely misguided notion that there is one right model of a life, much less a family life, that befits a candidate for public office. If, as the Star reported, Giambrone really did describe his relationship with his live-in partner as "important for the campaign," that is a tragic reflection of a political culture that is mired in a hidebound and exclusionary conception of what our leaders ought to be. Whatever else may or may not be true, it is deeply unfortunate that our political culture still exerts such pressures, and deeply unfortunate that Giambrone fell prey to them.

http://torontoist.com/2010/02/on_ca...tical_wives.php

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Originally posted by Jayx1 there are a lot of lousy politicians that are great guys. There are a lot of great politicians that are lousy guys. Aside from his personal affairs, Giambrone is a lousy politician. Look at the TTC for starters, and how he managed to piss off everyone on Lansdowne ave and Dundas St W with his anti car, anti business attitude.

Name me one politician that is considered universally good..past or present.

Depending on who you talk to, they all suck..

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Originally posted by smuncky Adam Giambrone and Our Need for Political Wives Most of us woke up this morning to the news that TTC chair and mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone (Ward 18, Davenport) was apologizing for an "inappropriate relationship" he had been having for the past year or so with a young woman who was not his live-in partner. Reaction has covered all the usual talking points, with competing choruses of Who cares about politicians' personal lives? and How can someone who'd betray his partner be trusted to run the city? playing out in newspaper comment sections and coffee shops across the city. If history is any guide, there is little correlation between a politician's personal life and his or her ability to lead. There have been bad faithful politicians and great adulterous ones, just as there have been politicians who have been both successful and faithful and others who have failed on both counts at once. We all would prefer our leaders to be unimpeachable in every respect, but not a single one ever has been and not a single one ever will be. Nor should it be the media's job to hunt down and publish every last vagary of a public figure's personal life. It is reasonable for voters to rely on all available information in assessing a candidate's worthiness for office, and to debate what of that information is relevant to making the assessment. It will be up to Torontonians to decide, over the course of this election cycle, who has on balance the strengths they most want and the weaknesses they are most willing to live with. What is, however, quite striking about this situation is what it reveals about our political culture. Specifically, it highlights that we seem somehow still attached to the notion of the political spouse. Right or wrongly, it appears that Giambrone felt his candidacy would benefit from him having a partner by his side. He is young, he is contemporary, he represents a generational shift in the political life of our city. And yet... We have no interest in speculating on the particulars of Giambrone's personal relationships, we do not yet know how much of the report published today will stand, and we have no idea what further details might emerge. We are seeking neither to exculpate nor to condemn Giambrone�the most any of us can and should do is decide whether or not to vote for him. But we need to move, as a society, past the antiquated and entirely misguided notion that there is one right model of a life, much less a family life, that befits a candidate for public office. If, as the Star reported, Giambrone really did describe his relationship with his live-in partner as "important for the campaign," that is a tragic reflection of a political culture that is mired in a hidebound and exclusionary conception of what our leaders ought to be. Whatever else may or may not be true, it is deeply unfortunate that our political culture still exerts such pressures, and deeply unfortunate that Giambrone fell prey to them. http://torontoist.com/2010/02/on_ca...tical_wives.php

Great article, thank you. Exactly what I was trying to say.

didn't Giambrone promise before being chairman of the TTC that the fares wouldnt go up, but then they did anyways? If its actually true then he doesnt sound like a very honest person at all. And whether he lied in relationships or in his career, it definitely reflects on his character as others said and just shows he just has a case of verbal diarrhea.

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Originally posted by Ravist didn't Giambrone promise before being chairman of the TTC that the fares wouldnt go up, but then they did anyways? If its actually true then he doesnt sound like a very honest person at all. And whether he lied in relationships or in his career, it definitely reflects on his character as others said and just shows he just has a case of verbal diarrhea.

hes single he can fuck who he wants in the butt.

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Originally posted by smuncky Adam Giambrone and Our Need for Political Wives Most of us woke up this morning to the news that TTC chair and mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone (Ward 18, Davenport) was apologizing for an "inappropriate relationship" he had been having for the past year or so with a young woman who was not his live-in partner. Reaction has covered all the usual talking points, with competing choruses of Who cares about politicians' personal lives? and How can someone who'd betray his partner be trusted to run the city? playing out in newspaper comment sections and coffee shops across the city. If history is any guide, there is little correlation between a politician's personal life and his or her ability to lead. There have been bad faithful politicians and great adulterous ones, just as there have been politicians who have been both successful and faithful and others who have failed on both counts at once. We all would prefer our leaders to be unimpeachable in every respect, but not a single one ever has been and not a single one ever will be. Nor should it be the media's job to hunt down and publish every last vagary of a public figure's personal life. It is reasonable for voters to rely on all available information in assessing a candidate's worthiness for office, and to debate what of that information is relevant to making the assessment. It will be up to Torontonians to decide, over the course of this election cycle, who has on balance the strengths they most want and the weaknesses they are most willing to live with. What is, however, quite striking about this situation is what it reveals about our political culture. Specifically, it highlights that we seem somehow still attached to the notion of the political spouse. Right or wrongly, it appears that Giambrone felt his candidacy would benefit from him having a partner by his side. He is young, he is contemporary, he represents a generational shift in the political life of our city. And yet... We have no interest in speculating on the particulars of Giambrone's personal relationships, we do not yet know how much of the report published today will stand, and we have no idea what further details might emerge. We are seeking neither to exculpate nor to condemn Giambrone�the most any of us can and should do is decide whether or not to vote for him. But we need to move, as a society, past the antiquated and entirely misguided notion that there is one right model of a life, much less a family life, that befits a candidate for public office. If, as the Star reported, Giambrone really did describe his relationship with his live-in partner as "important for the campaign," that is a tragic reflection of a political culture that is mired in a hidebound and exclusionary conception of what our leaders ought to be. Whatever else may or may not be true, it is deeply unfortunate that our political culture still exerts such pressures, and deeply unfortunate that Giambrone fell prey to them. http://torontoist.com/2010/02/on_ca...tical_wives.php

i love how the left wing always blames society for the illdoings of someone. Again, i dont think most of this story should have any bearing on his political life. But "the devil made me do it" doesnt work as an excuse for a child and shouldnt work as an adult.

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