Saturday, August 15, 2009

Toronto Sun city hall columnist to run for Tories in by-election

Toronto Sun city hall columnist Sue-Ann Levy fulfilled her long-standing political ambitions today filing nomination papers as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the provincial St. Paul's riding. A Sept. 17 voting date for the downtown Toronto riding is expected to be called next week by Premier Dalton McGuinty.

The Tories are counting on the 52-year-old Levy's appeal as Jewish in the largely Jewish riding, as a strong fiscal conservative and recently-married gay woman. She will be taking a leave-of-absence from the paper.

The riding — with a long tenure of Liberal MPs and MPPs — became available with the departure of Michael Bryant, an MPP there since 1999 and former attorney general and economic development minister, who joined the city's economic promotional Invest Toronto as CEO in June.

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