Remember the CMC?

The Coalition for Municipal Change (CMC) is nowhere to be seen in the 2010 Toronto Municipal Election. We have it on good authority they won't be heard from either.

That's because the group of Ward 16 residents who formed the CMC aren't backing Karen Stintz this time.  It's ironic that Karen Stintz could one day go the way of Anne Johnston. And, the similarities are worth noting. Word has it she turned her back on the CMC in much the same way as she does to many of Ward 16 constituents.  

Like Anne Johnston, Karen Stintz has ignored large swaths of the community she is supposed to be representing. Anne Johnston was targeted by the CMC after years of declining representation and shortly after her vote in favour of the Minto Towers development. In Karen Stintz's case it has been the handling of the development at Orchard View and Duplex that has been "the straw that broke the camel's back". 

One wonders if the CMC regrets its involvement with Karen Stintz?

They must of course, and what were they thinking anyway? The CMC selected a 30 something administrator with a thin resume to run for public office as Councillor for Ward 16. In essence, Karen Stintz was parachuted into an organisation where she had no experience and where she had no boss. In her new position as one of 45 Directors she participated in the running of a $6.8 billion corporation. Other than a brief orientation, she was immediately expected to vote on everything from pot holes to penthouses. She was not expected to attend performance reviews.  She was not required to establish mutually agreed goals. It seems it was assumed she was golden from the get-go.

That was a bit odd, CMC, don't you think?

The CMC did have some good ideas. Like when they paid for this advertisement.

Karen Stintz was meant to champion the cause for higher charges to developers but we suspect the rot had set in by then. That's when anybody close to what was happening in Ward 16 realised she didn't care for the Official Plan. She didn't appear interested in applying it to protect our neighbourhoods. Her mission had switched to raising her own profile with an eye on a political career. 

And that's when things really started to go downhill. Now look at the current slate of advertisements involving Karen Stintz!

And to think the CMC was electing a councillor to protect our neighbourhoods.  Instead, what we got was a councillor who protects DEVELOPERS!