politics Duly Quoted: Karen Stintz on Being Just Like Toronto Voters

The home-owning Toronto voters with soccer-playing children, that is.

“I am like you. I have a mortgage, kids, one car, and soccer games. Lets [sic] make it better.”

—Councillor Karen Stintz (Ward 16, Eglinton-Lawrence), in a tweet sent this morning. Stintz officially entered the mayoral race on February 24. This message of solidarity from the freshly minted mayoral candidate was greeted with a certain degree of skepticism on social media, with a number of Toronto tweeters offering variations on “I have none of those things.”