Councillor Maria Augimeri implies suburbanites are "unprogressive hicks". Suburbanites annoyed shoe fits so shockingly well

The battle for the office of Mayor of Toronto is devolving into a fight between liberals vs conservatives, thinkers vs idiots, 416 vs 905.

The Toronto Sun can be relied upon to take the low road.

The lefties are really going wild.

Just a day after several left-leaning councillors told the Sun the idea of Mayor Rob Ford was “appalling,” Councillor Maria Augimeri told AM640’s John Oakley Show Toronto’s suburban residents are at the bottom of the “learning curve” in understanding the policies of her downtown, “progressive” council colleagues.

That got a quick rebuke from most of the mayoral candidates who vowed to bridge the growing divide.

Augimeri, a North York councillor and avowed “suburbanite,” acknowledged there is a “palpable feeling in the suburbs that (they’ve) been wronged” and blamed that feeling on council’s executive committee before saying the “progressive” politicians weren’t the problem.

“They want to create a better world, they’re not ogres, don’t get me wrong, it’s just they didn’t take into account the learning curve of people in the suburbs,” she said Thursday.

What’s the learning curve?

“Bringing suburban people on board on ecological matters, on environmental initiatives, on progressive taxation, and I’m speaking very generally,” Augimeri said.

In a later interview, she stressed she wasn’t saying people in the city’s suburbs are unprogressive hicks.

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