Former Liberal leader Bob Rae has taken sides in the high-profile Liberal nomination contest in Eglinton-Lawrence, throwing his support behind Marco Mendicino over vaunted Liberal recruit and former Tory parliamentary secretary Eve Adams.

Rae tweeted a picture of himself holding a rainbow umbrella with Mendicino at 1:00 am Monday after taking part in the Toronto Pride festivities over the weekend.

Happy to be walking with my friend Marco Mendocino, who will make an excellent MP in Eglinton Lawrence pic.twitter.com/DMvDD72wKW — Bob Rae (@BobRae48) June 29, 2015

Mendicino (actually spelled with an “i”, not an “o”), whose website bio says he served as a federal prosecutor for 10 years and is now an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, is in a tight race with Adams, the controversial partner of Dimitri Soudas, ousted Conservative Party executive director and former director of communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

In May, Liberal insiders told Robert Benzie, the Toronto Star’s Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, that the nomination meeting in Eglinton-Lawrence was being delayed until Adams had signed up enough members to defeat Mendicino.

That date still hasn’t been set.

Trudeau’s press conference with Adams in February suggested he’d prefer she be the Liberal candidate to take on Finance Minister Joe Oliver in the riding.

But she’s been a divisive pick-up for the Liberals.

Adams’ campaign has benefited from the guidance of Tom Allison, who helped Kathleen Wynne secure the provincial Liberal leadership.

She’s also gotten the endorsements of the riding association president, Rocco Piccininno, and Liberal MPs Yvonne Jones, Franke Valeriote, and Scott Simms.

But Rae is hardly Mendicino’s only notable supporter.

Judy Sgro, the Liberal MP for York West and immigration minister under Paul Martin, and Mike Colle — the Liberal MPP for Eglinton-Lawrence — have both endorsed him.

Though Colle has arguably been as passionate about his opposition to Adams’ candidacy as he has about Mendicino’s.

Adams, Colle wrote on his Facebook page back in February, would get the nomination ‘over his dead body’.