Links to Mayor candidates websites and twitter accounts

Here are the 26 Mayor candidates and links to their websites, blogs, twitters accounts or other links which are authored or maintained by the candidate or their campaign team or biographies not written by the candidate*. (to be updated as they become known, last updated May 9th)

On the left is the link to the Contact information found on the City of Toronto official website, (if they provided permission email address and website is also contained) in the middle are the links to the Twitters accounts I have found thus far and on the right are their official websites or blogs or other.

Even those with a social media presence or website still don't get noticed or are getting ignored by the media and debates and my intention is give the public a place to find them.

Mayor	Twitter account	websites about them
Achampong, Rocco	Rocco4Toronto	http://www.roccoformayor.com/
Andrews, Don		http://www.natparty.com/DA4mayor.htm
Babula, George		www.parkdaleparty.com
Barton, Andrew	ActsofAndrewB	http://actsofminortreason.blogspot.com/
Brereton, Wendell	MayorBrereton	http://www.wendellbrereton.com/
Campbell, Douglas		* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Campbell_(Ontario_politician)
Castillo, Jaime		no references / links / statements from 2010 election found yet
Cidade, Mark	marxidad	http://www.marxidad.com/
Cole, Keith	keithadcole	http://keithcole.ca/
Firth, Selwyn		http://selwynformayor.com/
Ford, Rob	RobFordTeam	http://www.robfordformayor.ca http://robford.ca/
Ghazi, Baquie	BaquieGhazi	* http://afuitbs.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/meet-a-mayoral-candidate-xii/
Gomberg, Howard		http://howardformayor.blogspot.com/
Hossain, Monowar	mkhosseyn	no references / links / statements from 2010 election found yet
Letonja, John		www.supermagnetics.com
Magee, Colin	MageeForMayor	* http://afuitbs.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/meet-a-mayoral-candidate-part-iii/
Mammoliti, Giorgio	Mammoliti4Mayor	http://www.mammoliti2010.com/
Pampena, Joseph	jpforpr	http://www.jpformayor.ca
Pantalone, Joe	JPantalone	http://joepantalone2010.ca/
Rossi, Rocco	roccothevoteTO	http://roccorossi.com/
Smitherman, George	G_Smitherman	http://www.georgesmitherman.ca/
State, Mark	FeedbackToMark	http://mark-state.wetpaint.com/
Clarke, Kevin	ThatKevinClarke	*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Clarke_(Toronto_politician) * http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204922253
Thomson, Sarah	ThomsonTO	http://www.sarahthomson.ca/
Wadhwa, Ratan		no references / links / statements from 2010 election found yet
Yeung, Sonny		http://www.sonnyyeung.com/
Totals = 26 Candidates	17 tweeters	still looking for 3 more blogs or websites and something to replace * articles / pages not written by the candidate or not verified

Tired of incomplete Polls and Debates with only 5 or 6 invited?

Well I'm tired of polls that only show the front runners in Toronto's 2010 Mayor Race, and debates/meetings that only have 5 or 6 candidates. There are a few definitions of "Front Runners" found in a recent National Post article, Blogger and Wikipedia, but the only thing worse that not being in the front runners and invited to all these events is being labeled Fringe Candidate. There are so many connotations to that word Fringe I can't list them all:

Fringe Science, Fringe Benefits, any social group holding unorthodox views, marginal or peripheral

As I was composing this poll I discovered the # of candidates has just increased to 26 since this weekend (this is in addition to the 6 that have already dropped out) The City of Toronto has a list that keeps growing (They include the date someone drops out, but don't mention the date they joined the race)

Besides the links found above articles, I plan to compose brief list of a links to each mayor as I find them. (many have already been posted to my TorontoVote Twitter account) and the mayors I have found so far can be viewed in my mayor-2010-active twitter list which currently has only 15/26 of them. There are other lists on my twitter account that allow you see those that tweet about the mayors, related to the mayors, or mayor-not-serious the unofficial unfavorable or funny tweeters, the sad thing is for every real mayor candidate I have found there are just as many pretending to be, or making fun of the mayors race.

Too busy to read all the Toronto Mayor platforms, read about it 140 characters at a time

I've never liked lengthy writing, so when Larry King CNNBRK lost the race to Ashton Kutcher APLUSK reaching a million followers on Twitter I decided to give it a try and became addicted.

I started with one for myself JAMESDSHARP, one for Shari, one for her cousin, the playright, and after hearing about SHITMYDADSAYS I created one for Shari's father (he didn`t like the idea) so I renamed it DWTStars then later deleted it after last years season (too time consuming, and short lived)

I have created/renamed other twitter accounts since, but TORONTOVOTE is my current favorite and without realizing it or attempting to copy it, it is only 1 letter away from the Official Feed of the City of Toronto Elections Services in the City Clerk's Office twitter account http://twitter.com/torontovotes

My aim for my twitter account TORONTOVOTE is Re-tweet relevant news/platforms/links in Toronto's 2010 Mayor Race and list and RT candidates if not bashing another mayor candidate

or to coin a phrase from The Christian Science Monitor - "To injure no man..," .

I want to provide a place for those who want to find Toronto Mayor's platforms, speeches, links, news but without all the bickering, backstabbing and berating that normally goes on in politics.

The Biggest problem I've discovered with Toronto's Mayor Race is there was 31 running (5 dropped out) but less than half of them have twitter accounts to date and those that do usually have someone tweeting on their behalf from their campaign office or if they tweet themselves is is not always election relevant.

But lastly, I am trying not to be biased towards one mayor or the other, they all have good points to share and twitter allows the exchange of ideas between mayors and the public better than any debate or meeting where only a few mayors or voters can attend.

Twitter's stage is the world, and there is no one preventing any mayor or voter from having their voice heard as I have seen comments (tweets) with the Hashtag #Voteto from across Canada joining in the conversation.

But my favorite so far is from AliceT_

Dear #Toronto mayoral candidates, please do not use the hash#voteTO unless you have something relevant to say instead of your weekend plansabout 2 hours ago via webRetweeted by you