Councillor Redefines 'Communist', Claims He Can Smell Them

The warped and twisted mind of Giorgio Mammoliti shifts into a laughable, pale imitation of McCarthyism.

Walking embarrassment Giorgio Mammoliti, a Toronto city councillor, has set up a Facebook group for supporters of Mayor Rob Ford's administration to discuss ways to cut spending (a fine endeavour, we guess), which gives The Globe and Mail's Patrick White an amazing opportunity to discover just how misguided the man might be. In an interview with the paper, Mammoliti says his Facebook group isn't meant for the “communists” in Toronto who staged a marathon council meeting two weeks ago to protest budget cuts. So, who are these communists, exactly? “Anyone who is able to work, doesn’t want to work and wants everything for free,” says Mammoliti, which, to us, sounds like 19-year-old university dropouts and little else. He also claims he learned to “smell” them after working as an NDP MPP and union leader earlier in his career (it's called patchouli, Giorgio), and while his group has garnered 500 followers, most of the discourse on the wall is the typical conservative vs. liberal doggerel we've come to expect from any political conversation held on Facebook.