Matlow to run for city council
[attach]808[/attach]Public school trustee Josh Matlow wants to make the political leap to city hall.
In a sit-down interview with the Town Crier yesterday, the outspoken trustee confirmed he will run for council in St. Paul’s Ward 22.
“I intend to ask for my community’s support to run for council in 2010,” he said at a coffee shop near Yonge and Eglinton. “I intend to register on Jan. 4.”
Matlow said he wants to foster greater consensus at city hall.
“I see city hall far too polarized between the right and left,” said Matlow, who was first elected to the school board in 2003. “I have always looked for solutions rather than blame others.
“I challenged the board when I felt it was incumbent to do so, but I have also reached out with colleagues to get motions passed,” he said. “Over 80 to 90 percent of all my motions I have ever brought to the board have found support.”
Current Ward 22 rep Michael Walker plans to make a decision on whether he will seek re-election in the spring, he said Oct. 6.
Look for more from the sit-down with Matlow, an interview with Walker and profiles of other potential St. Paul’s challengers in the upcoming print edition of the Midtown Town Crier.