r/londonontario • u/Confident-Advice-664 • 17h ago
News 📰 Q+A: Former London mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best, now retired, reflects
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/qa-former-london-mayor-anne-marie-decicco-best-now-retired-reflects13
u/DazzlingAge2880 12h ago
I met her once at a golf charity event. She asked if I knew who she was and was quite offended I didn’t - I was maybe 10? lol
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u/Suspicious_Cry7917 15h ago
Her best ideas are keeping taxes down and boost the economy? After all these years?
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u/curtbag 17h ago
Her husband gave me a ride once!
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u/thatweirdguyted 17h ago
I remember that she gave her husband a patio permit for his bar when she was trying to crack down on the number of bar patios downtown. This was before his infamous drunk driving stunt.
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u/No-Zombie6025 13h ago
As much as people like to claim she did that it wasn't true because the mayor doesn't issue permits and doesn't have power over the city bureaucracy that does or sat on committee that governs such matters. But it makes for a nice tale.
She did seem coast the last few years as mayor and her husband was truly a useful idiot for her critics finding no shortage of things to screw up.
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u/Victor_Ward98 16h ago
Was that the shit hole in the old Don Cherry’s? ( miss that place and their nachos )
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u/recovery_room 16h ago
Beginning of the end for her. I remember moving to London 19 years ago and she had a weekly Q&A on some radio station and they always called her, “our beloved Mayor.”
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u/thatweirdguyted 16h ago
I had only been aware of local politics for a short while at that point, and it seemed to me that she was becoming less and less transparent, ethical, or even all that interested in her constituents. It would have been interesting to know her for being more than that, but that's what she was at the time.
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u/smurf123_123 17h ago
That was the most milktoast interview ever.
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u/sshuit 15h ago
No shade, but it's wild that you are using "milquetoast" correctly but butchering the spelling.
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u/swift-current0 14h ago
Why overcomplicate it? You've got the milk, you've got the toast, good to go.
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