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Jane Pitfield Caught Stealing From Spacing
It seems that Mayoral candidate Jane Pitfield has been caught borrowing ideas, without any credit, from the Spacing Votes web page. On her "blog" she "reports" that:
David Miller made a thin promise yesterday -- $28 million to Toronto's 13 distressed neighbourhoods, spread over four years. That works out to be just over $500,000 per neighbourhood per year -- a bit less than what the city's works department requested last winter to hire six new enforcement officers. In fact, the annual cost of Miller's new program adds up to just 0.1% of the city's total spending. This amounts to very little for at-risk youth. Municipal spending alone won't solve the problems for young people growing up in distressed neighbourhoods. These steps won't do much other than generate a few more summer jobs.
But wait a minute, that sounds a lot like what John Lorinc wrote for Spacing on Oct 6. See for yourself:
How else to explain the paper-thin promise he made yesterday -- $28 million to Toronto's 13 distressed neighbourhoods, spread over four years. Do the math, and that works out to be just over $500,000 per neighbourhood per year -- a bit less than what the city's works department requested last winter to hire six new enforcement officers. In fact, the annual cost of Miller's new program adds up to a princely 0.1% of the city's total spending. ... Municipal spending alone won't solve the problems for young people growing up in poor neighbourhoods, but it's hard to imagine that what Miller plans to ante up will do much other than generate a few more summer jobs.
After Spacing noticed, Pitfield's crew posted the credit "(Source: John Lorinc on Spacing.ca)", however this comes a week too late. Maybe Jane should steal a few paragrpahs from this website instead.
"Now, how about an apology?" (source for quote, David Topping, Torontoist.com)
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One of the weirdest things to consider about this whole thing is that it's not copied verbatim; there's a clear manipulation of the original text to try to make it "fit" the blog - which is the worst kind of plagarism; you can't blame ignorance if you're altering bits and pieces of it.
Then again, I doubt Pitfield held the blogger vote before last night anyway. Here's hoping this makes it to the MSM.
You want scandal???
Look at Bombardier, Look at Green Lane, Look at Miller's various dalliances.
For me, this is about Pitfield not being able to attract the kind of volunteers and campaign staff that the other guy can. It says a lot about a candidate that they can't inspire talented people to work for them and that they choose to hire the wrong people.
Is it downloadable in the public domain.
Or are you above the fray.
Miller has the best Tory advisers that money can by - Lash and Ralph Lean.
Miller is so far up their cracks he cant breathe.
So much for this site's non-partisanship.
You're Miller Whores.
At the bottom of every page on blogTO, you'll find the following disclaimer:
<b>"Comments and blog entries represent the viewpoints of the individual and no one else."</b>
Isn't that a wonderful concept? Writers here have the freedom to be as partison as they want to be. Yay!
I can openly tell you that I think Miller is the best person at the mayoral helm this city has seen in a long time.
Many of us have met him countless times, and we've had several in-depth conversations with him about our city and how we can improve it.
I've attended countless positive city events and he's always there in genuine support.
If you want to be heard and taken seriously, might I suggest that you drop the "Miller Whore", "up their cracks", "he's an asshole, and a dick" comments.
Lloyd, thanks for the comments. Your opinion is appreciated. No seriously, I'm not even being sarcastic. It would be nice if you could tone down the insults a bit though, because nobody is going to take you seriously talking like that.
But you're going to have to explain the whole "air mattress" thing. You lost me there.