Three way?
Montrealers might not have to face the same contest in the next mayoral election. Twice now, we've had to choose between
Pierre Bourque, who thinks he was born to be king (one of his old slogans was along the lines of "mayor once, mayor forever"), and
Gerald Tremblay, a liar -- no wait, I retract that liar accusation, just as Tremblay retracted his city budget after introducing mondo tax increases when he promised he wouldn't.
Now
Pauline Marois, who ran repeatedly for the leadership of the
Parti Quebecois and kept... losing, is apparently considering a bid for Montreal's top spot. She announced her resignation from provincial politics earlier this month. This morning's
La Presse says friends are trying to conscript her (code for "trial balloon"). Marois has had a distinguished career as Quebec's minister of just about everything during her party's on-again, off-again years in power. She lost the latest leadership campaign to the out, coke-snorting
André Boisclair. Who outflanks Marois on the right. (Boisclair, by the way, has taken down
his blog, which just forwards to the PQ's official website. He's in now, and can't afford a misstep.)
Marois always looks snotty
in photographs. She really needs to work on that.