Sandra Bussin Ward 32 councillor what a disaster In my opinion:)

I know, "Brent, you live North of the City, why do you care about issues in Toronto?", it's not my place but It upsets me when people are power hungry, and it's even worse when they represent other people. You want to be an ass and it only affects you?? GO AHEAD! When it affects others, people that voted you into office, then that's wrong. It's kinda like committing suicide and taking as many others with you as you can or simply taking your own life.

Now back to Sandra;

Do you remember a while ago when I rallied against Sandra B over her Knowledge of what constitutes "art" and whether a mural painted on the side of a building, paid for by the building owner in order to stop constant "tagging", was art. Also remember that she decided that it wasn't ... she be real smart like:), so the owner was forced to remove it ALL BECAUSE OF HER!

No onto the most recent scandal, and rather than filling in the blanks I will simply post this with thanks to Sue-Ann Levy and the Toronto Sun

"""Andrew McVeigh worked for the Boardwalk Pub as a chef on and off for six years — including during 2006 when Councillor Sandra Bussin took another run at office.

The 29-year-old trained chef says he was looking for more hours during that time when he was approached by the head chef to do some work outside the pub.

“He did a catering business so I thought I’d be doing some extra catering for him,” McVeigh said Monday.

To his surprise, he and another employee were taken to Bussin’s campaign office on Queen St. E. near Northern Dancer Ave., where he was put to work on the phones, distributing campaign brochures and erecting signs.

He remembers working for about five hours a day for three or four days. McVeigh said he was told that he’d be paid $10 an hour for his services but that to anybody who asked, he was a “volunteer.”

The money was added to his regular paycheque from Tuggs Inc., as if he was putting in the time at the pub, he said.

While it struck him as “very odd” that he was asked to work on the councillor’s campaign, McVeigh said he was warned at the time that if he told anybody he’d “lose his job.”

He has since left the Boardwalk Pub and is pursuing a career in construction. He told me he decided it was time he spoke up after he heard the series of media reports on the controversial deal with George Foulidis, owner of Tuggs Inc., that would give him a monopoly over food, beverage and liquor sales in the Eastern Beaches for the next 20 years.

McVeigh said he didn’t know until recently he wasn’t supposed to be paid to “volunteer” to work on a councillor’s re-election bid.

“I feel duped.”

Bussin did not respond to calls to her cellphone, her office voice mail or to a fax sent to her office for comment.

Foulidis couldn’t be reached either, despite efforts to contact him on his cellphone, through an e-mail message, as well as a fax and phone call to his pub.

This is yet another chapter in the ongoing soap opera surrounding the controversial council decision to award Foulidis the exclusive rights he has enjoyed since 1986 to sell food and beverages not just at the Boardwalk Cafe but at Kew and Balmy Beaches as well as at D.D. Summerville Pool.

That decision came late in the evening of May 12 when only 28 councillors were in the chamber. Bussin, herself, declared a conflict.

According to a report prepared by licensed private investigator Bert O’Mara of Mosaic Investigations, Foulidis’ ties with Bussin do not stop there. They include a variety of contributions to her re-election campaigns in 2003 and 2006.

In 2003, O’Mara traced some $4,000 to friends, family and business partners of Foulidis; in 2006 he found that Bussin received $8,250 from what were then friends, family members, officers of Foulidis’ company and his employees.

O’Mara said Monday he couldn’t comment on Tuggs Inc. employees actually working on Bussin’s campaign.

That said, at Tuesday’s meeting, council will have the opportunity to approve a motion from Frances Nunziata asking that the matter be reopened and the contract be put out to tender.

The 16 councillors missing on May 16 were contacted Monday to determine how they would vote. Rob Ford, Karen Stintz, Peter Milczyn, Chin Lee, Cliff Jenkins, Mike Feldman and Cesar Palacio all indicated they’d support a reopening. Raymond Cho said he hasn’t made up his mind. Giorgio Mammoliti, Shelley Carroll, Janet Davis, Case Ootes, Michael Thompson, Michael Walker, John Filion and Adam Giambrone did not respond to Sun enquiries."""

OH MY! do we see a possible conflict here?? I won't even comment on the contract given to George Foulidis, but even that looks bad on the other councillors, and is very short sighted seeing as this City is growing quickly .... who knows in 10 years what will be done on the boardwalk, and ALL of this goes to Foulidis to, in essence, do what he want's to do!

Goo