The repeated attacks on Olivia Chow just make the other mayoral candidates look silly. The other mayoral candidates may be obsessing about Chow’s lack of specifics, but the voters don’t seem to be. Opinion by thekeenanwire
. I invited each of the candidates to choose one other candidate and ask them one question. Four candidates, out of the six onstage, not only chose to direct their queries to Olivia Chow, but offered slight variations on the same question: How much, exactly, are you going to raise property taxes?
So everyone was targeting Chow. Even Josh Matlow, the only other candidate not to ask her a direct question, referred to her in his closing statement, saying he respected her legacy but it was time for new leadership for today’s problems. And that leads to my third observation about that moment, and the state of the campaign so far: Olivia Chow has succeeded thus far, to a certain extent, by avoiding being pinned down to specifics. She has a platform with substantive proposals in it, but to the extent she’s seemed vulnerable at all, it’s been where her math doesn’t seem to add up and where the specifics of what she’s banking on don’t align with recently revealed reality .
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