Furey has now supplanted Holyday as the best candidate, but it still isn't looking good. He opened his campaign by announcing a tax hike. First of all, if it's all about replacing infrastructure, it should be a limited time levy, and not a tax hike that will go on forever and become waste. Second, if there was nothing done about infrastructure for 2 years during Covid (as he claims), what were all the public servants assigned to that function doing? Maybe our public works department is a lot larger than it needs to be! Lastly, there is no capacity in an underperforming economy to ask citizens for more money. It's time to make some tough decisions and reallocate the budget to the more essential areas - like infrastructure, and away from the luxury items, like arts and cultural funding.
In other words, still no reliable and responsible person with a good grasp of city economics and finance has emerged. Just a weird menagerie of people running based on ego, not on service to taxpayers.