Ken Lanci of Consolidated Graphics Group to run for mayor of Cleveland

More news on printers in politics:

Ken Lanci, owner, chairman, and CEO of Consolidated Graphics Group Inc., is expected to announce he is running for mayor of Cleveland at a news conference he has scheduled at his business at 12:30 p.m. on Monday.

This week he filed preliminary paperwork that allows him to raise and spend money on polling. 

Mr. Lanci is known locally for his philanthropy and for spending hundreds of thousands of his own dollars on a failed 2010 bid for Cuyahoga County executive.  (But keep in mind that even Winston Churchill lost an election.)

A nonpartisan primary will be held in Cleveland next September, from which the two candidates with the most votes will advance to the election in November.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/businessman_ken_lanci_will_run.html

http://www.wkyc.com/news/politics_government/article/297693/130/Cleveland-Ken-Lanci-to-announce-hes-running-for-Mayor

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/280532/3/Cleveland-Lanci-makes-next-move-in-possible-mayoral-run

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/12/businessman_ken_lanci_says_hes.html

Update on 7 May 2013:

It’s official.  As expected, on Monday Ken Lanci announced his intention to run as a Democrat in Cleveland’s 2013 mayoral election, making him the first challenger officially to enter the race against favoured two-term Democratic incumbent Frank Jackson.  Mr. Lanci says priorities of his platform will include reforming Cleveland’s substandard public-school system, reducing crime, improved public safety, and poverty reduction through job creation.

Mr. Lanci was born and raised in a housing project on Cleveland’s east side.  His press release says he rescued the family business from bankruptcy when he was only 19 and has since built and turned around many other businesses.  His current enterprise, Consolidated Graphics Group Inc., employees over 150 people.

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/298327/3/Cleveland-Lanci-running-against-Mayor-Jackson

http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2013/05/ken_lanci_to_run_for_cleveland.html

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20130506/FREE/130509872

Pierre Karl Péladeau to chair Hydro-Québec and help Quebecor seek National Hockey League team for Quebec City

Further to my post of 15 March 2013 (http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pierre-karl-peladeau-stepping-down-as.html), on May 15 (a week after he leaves his role as president and CEO of Quebecor on May 8) Pierre Karl Péladeau will become chairman of the board and an independent board member of the Crown corporation Hydro-Québec, Canada’s largest power utility.  Mr. Péladeau reportedly asked for and received this prestigious new role from Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, whose office announced the appointment last week.

Macleans has already criticized the appointment as a nakedly political and partisan move by Ms. Marois’s party, the Parti Québécois.  Yesterday’s Montreal Gazette speculates that Mr. Péladeau’s ultimate goal is to become Quebec’s next premier.

His new role is expected to last five years and to save Hydro-Québec over $500,000 (since he has asked not to be paid, and his predecessor, Michael Turcotte, received $125,000 annually.)

Meanwhile Mr. Péladeau will also remain the largest shareholder of Quebecor Inc. (effectively retaining him control of the company that his father founded in 1950) and will also assume a new position as chairman of two Quebecor subsidiaries, Quebecor Media Inc. (QMI) and TVA Group.  He has also been named vice-chairman of the board at parent company Quebecor Inc., and will retain a mandate from Quebecor to seek a National Hockey League team for Quebec City. 

Additionally, Mr. Péladeau is back in the news for his part in an August news conference asking the federal government to disallow a proposed takeover of Astral Media Inc. by Bell Media, since despite opposition the takeover still seems to be actively proceeding.

Pierre Karl Péladeau’s Hockey Project

In 2011 Mr. Péladeau was reportedly instrumental in persuading Quebec’s former Liberal provincial government to commit up to $200 million toward a new National Hockey League-ready arena in Quebec City by offering additional tens of millions of dollars to support the project.  

Then In March 2012 he secured a deal with Quebec City to give Quebecor naming rights for the future arena and exclusive rights to manage the facility.

By the terms of the deal, if an NHL team is acquired, Quebecor will pay the city $63.5 million for naming rights, plus $5 million in annual rent for the arena. Without one, the company will instead pay $33 million for the rights and an average of $3.15 million annually for rent.

Quebec City lost its NHL team when the Nordiques relocated to Denver in 1995.  Although the new arena is expected to be complete by September 2015, no guarantee exists that the city will ever get a team back.

Links about Mr. Péladeau’s career:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/04/17/quebec-pierre-karl-peladeau-hydro-quebec.html?cmp=rss

http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/pierre-karl-peladeau-is-new-chair-of-board-of-directors-for-hydro-quebec-1.1242159

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Pierre+Karl+Péladeau+named+chairman+Hydro+Québec/8254639/story.html

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/17/quebecor-chairman-pierre-karl-peladeau-joins-hydro-quebec-board

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/a-tale-of-two-patronage-appointments/

http://www.montrealgazette.com/mobile/opinion/editorial/a9ladeau+next+leader/8278029/story.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/04/17/bce-astral-plan-critics.html?cmp=rss
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/11/16/bce-astral-deal-shares-halted_n_2144220.html

Hockey links:
http://business.financialpost.com/2013/03/15/fading-to-background-of-quebecor-peladeau-said-to-be-eyeing-nhl/

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/story/2012/03/25/sp-quebec-city-nhl-arena-announcement.html

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/opinion/2012/03/nhl-is-unmoved-about-quebec-citys-arena-plans.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/09/03/quebec-hockey-arena-ground-breaking.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/02/10/quebec-arena-announcement.html

Appeal granted: Toronto printer Rob Ford keeps his job as mayor

The verdict is just in:  Toronto’s printer Mayor Rob Ford will remain in office after winning his appeal of a November court ruling evicting him as mayor over a conflict-of-interest violation.  

His legal opponents plan to apply for leave to appeal yet again, this time to the Supreme Court of Canada.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1319970--mayor-rob-ford-wins-appeal-will-stay-in-office

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/01/25/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-decision.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-wins-appeal-will-stay-in-office/article7848448/

http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/523947/breaking-rob-ford-wins-appeal-keeps-his-job-as-mayor-of-toronto/

http://www.680news.com/2013/01/25/verdict-in-ford-appeal-expected-friday/

http://o.canada.com/2013/01/25/rob-fords-legal-opponents-comment-on-appeal-ruling-that-favours-toronto-mayor/

For more background, please see my blog post of 27 November 2012:

http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2012/11/torontos-printer-mayor-rob-ford-will.html 

Toronto’s printer Mayor Rob Ford will fight court ruling to remove him from office

Toronto’s printer Mayor Rob Ford says he will appeal yesterday’s verdict by Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland to remove Mr. Ford from office. The judge ruled that the mayor of two years violated the Municipal Conflict-of-Interest Act by speaking and voting in city council on a motion that recommended Mr. Ford repay $3,150 he improperly solicited from city hall lobbyists for his private football foundation.  In anticipation of potential disruptions to both Toronto’s civic government and the judicial system, Mr. Justice Hackland put his ruling on hold for 14 days to go into effect December 10^th.

In response, Mr. Ford (left centre) says that besides appealing the decision, he will also seek a stay from Divisional Court to keep him in office beyond December 10^th until the appeal process is finished.  He also says that, if he loses the appeal, he will run again in the by-election to fill the office he has vacated pending the general election of 2014.

Rob Ford and his family are owners of Deco Labels and Tags (Toronto, Chicago, and New Jersey).
https://www.box.net/s/4hohjfcrcrytfkal0oq1

https://www.box.net/shared/lx31eionez

As you can see from the sampling of Web links below, journalists and bloggers are having a field day of speculation as they consider possible interpretations and future results of these latest events.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-removed-from-office-vows-to-appeal/article5661417/

http://www.globalnews.ca/video/raw+video++rob+ford+confirms+he+will+appeal+guilty+verdict/video.html?v=2309524527#canada

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/toronto/citynews/news/video/237927--mayor-rob-ford-to-appeal-judge-s-guilty-ruling-in-conflict-of-interest-case

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1293190--mayor-rob-ford-guilty-kicked-from-office-but-can-run-again
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/11/25/toronto-ford-conflict-case-decision-release.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/11/26/f-rob-ford-mayor-future.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/article/1293441--fiorito-judge-s-rob-ford-decision-was-not-about-the-money

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/rob-ford-too-stubborn-to-be-mayor/article5707594/

Addendum:  A few more links from 28 November 2012:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/28/rob-ford-says-hes-sorry-but-pledges-to-fight-to-stay-as-mayor-to-finish-job/

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/article/1293585--rob-ford-s-appeal-will-be-filed-in-the-next-couple-days
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/article/1294164--plan-c-a-ford-switcheroo

http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/456483/if-rob-ford-cant-run-in-byelection-its-dougs-turn-for-mayor/

http://news.nationalpost.com/tag/rob-ford/

Doug Ford to donate councillor's salary to charity

Doug Ford, president of Deco Labels and Tags, recently elected Toronto city councillor, and older brother of Toronto mayor-elect Rob Ford, plans to donate his entire councillor’s salary (about $100,000 annually) to community organizations during his four-year term of office.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontovotes2010/2010/10/26/15840566.html

Label printer Rob Ford elected Toronto's 64th mayor

In today’s municipal election, Rob Ford, CFO and principal of Deco Labels and Tags and a Toronto city councillor for the past decade, has just been elected mayor of Toronto.  His older brother, Doug Ford, Jr., has also just been elected the replacement city councillor in Rob's old ward.  

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101025/election-day-101025/20101025/?hub=TorontoNewHome

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/10/25/ford-brothers-to-band-together-at-city-hall-doug-wins-ward-2/

Rob is scheduled to take over as mayor on December 1^st. As far as we know at PrintAction Magazine, it will be the first time a printer has occupied the city’s mayoral office since William Lyon Mackenzie was elected Toronto’s first mayor in 1834.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004947