Leading candidates to be Toronto's next mayor must want Scarborough votes a lot.
None of the likely contenders for the job are based in Scarborough, but at least two chose Scarborough as the first place to open a satellite campaign office. Based downtown, George Smitherman said he would take possession of an office - "forward operating base, I like to call it" - at Lawrence and Midland avenues on Aug. 1. The Rob Ford campaign, operating from Ford's Etobicoke home turf, has already opened a satellite of his own on Lawrence at Warden Avenue.Another rival with an office in the city's centre, Rocco Rossi, said he'd have satellite offices around the city before the summer ends. "And I always have my parents' house in Scarborough as a satellite office," he added this week.