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Toronto Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti isn’t ruling out a provincial run on the Doug Ford team, but says he’s leaning toward taking on Mayor John Tory in October’s municipal election.

“That is what my gut is telling me to do right now,” Mammoliti said Thursday. “And I think I’ve got enough ammunition on (Tory) already to convince the electorate that it’ll be very dangerous to cast your vote for him one more time.”

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A vote for Tory is one for “future tax increases” — potentially highway tolls, property tax increases and fee hikes, Mammoliti said.

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Meanwhile, suburban residents will be sending their taxes downtown for Tory’s pet projects “like his poodle park that’s going to cost us $3 billion at the end of the day,” he said.

“So someone needs to stop this stuff and go back to finding the savings in the bureaucracy before we start charging any more money for programs that we can’t afford any more,” he said.