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Anyone know where a guy can get a carpetbag around here?

by Paul Wells on Monday, September 28, 2009 8:19am - 11 Comments

Former mayor Glen Murray considers running for mayor again. It’s the details — what he’s the former mayor of, and what he would like to be the mayor of now — that make the story interesting. And yet somehow highly unsurprising.

Tags: Glen Murray, I hear they're looking for a mayor in Minsk too

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Anon

Hey, Inkless, Harper is from Toronto-Leaside, yet he is the Champion of the West. Why can't Westerners go East?

http://intensedebate.com/people/Inkless Inkless

When Murray was in his last months as Mayor of Winnipeg, Harper had already been living in Alberta for 25 years. You could look it up.

http://intensedebate.com/people/YYZ YYZ

To be fair, Murray has been running the Canadian Urban Institute in Toronto and has been actively engaged in Toronto civic life for several years now….
Andrew (not Potter or Coyne)

If he were from Hong Kong he wouldn’t be a carpetbagger. Winnipeg? Hold on a second!
herringchoker

Does anyone know where Susan Thompson is living these days? It sounds to me as though the being mayor of Winnipeg is becoming like being premier of Newfoundland. You get to keep the job for six to ten years but you have to move away when you're finished.
Canuckistanian

carpetbagger was my exact thought upon reading of Glen Murray as potential Toronto mayoral candidate.

He has demonstrable political skills, but the way he Palin'ed out as mayor of Winnipeg certainly calls his judgment into question. Noentheless, I suppose if Ignatieff can live in Canada for a few years and run as PM, Glen can live in Tawranna for a few and run as mayor too.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Inkless Inkless

I have always enjoyed my conversations with Murray. But his political skills are kind of variable. I covered a town hall on his New Deal when he was Winnipeg mayor. He walked into a room that was deeply divided on the issue, and by the time he was done, they were united. Against him.

Canuckistanian

fair enough. he has the ability to be an inspiring public speaker. he spoke to a small gathering i attended and i was rather impressed. he should run for the libs in a a T.O. riding; not as mayor.

http://intensedebate.com/people/VinceClortho VinceClortho

Will John Tory save money by running "Just Visiting" ads?
http://intensedebate.com/people/tigerinexil1428 tigerinexile

John Tory needs to run a Costanza campaign.

http://www.tv.com/seinfeld/the-opposite/episode/2…
http://www.intensedebate.com/people/tigerinexil1428 tigerinexile

When you're the big part of the country or think of yourself as such, you don't care whether people are carpetbaggers.

Case in point: New York State and its parachute senators…