I think we need to give our City Councillors more work.

Councillor and TTC head Adam Giambrone will be getting his own talk show. I’m not making this up. He’s going to ride around on a street car, taking calls, comments and complaints.  Viewers can tune in Thursday at 8:00 on CP24.  I recently read that Giambrone was considering a run for the Mayor’s job in 2010.  I had dismissed this out of hand, recalling all the bright yellow “Giambrone don’t narrow Lansdowne” signs speckling his Ward when he supported the wacky idea to narrow that street to make it less useful for traffic and parking. However, it looks like Mr. Giambrone is taking steps to broaden his public appeal.

Getting on TV is not a bad idea for a politician. After all, lots of people believe all kinds of ideas when they are presented on the box. John Tory is trying a similar tact with his afternoon radio talk show on Newstalk 1010. Will it make him more electable? It’s hard to say, but if he does a good job as a radio host, I think it’s a vote getter…but then Tory hasn’t declared to this point.

So far, we haven’t seen a “successor” to Mayor Miller from the left appear to challenge for the Mayor’s job. Is it going to be Giambrone? I don’t think a transit talk show will be enough to catapult him into that gig.