If Adam Giambroni's campaign represents the great urban/progressive hope in the upcoming election, these hopes are quickly fading.
Having started the campaign with the TTC albatross around his neck, he has now stumbled into a tawdry sexual entanglement. Hardly Clintonian, but clearly not helpful at this point.
All elections are important, but this one seems particularly crucial. We seem to be at a crossroads with a choice between a reduced presence of government giving way to a sprawling, car-centred city -- think Atlanta or Houston or a city centred on urban growth, renewed infrastructure and the type of dense, livable city so eloquently promoted by Jane Jacobs. It is sad that most of the current candidates, and perhaps now all of the viable ones, envision the former.
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