In an interview with the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale, Giorgio Mammoliti, who sat on the TCHC Board from 2001 until recently, embarrasses the hell out of himself in a weird attempt to disassociate himself from the ongoing scandal:
“The mayor wants a change at the board,†he said, “and I agree with the mayor that there should be a change at the board. I never asked for the board to go, I just agreed with the mayor.â€
via Mammoliti: I was a ‘responsible’ TCHC board member – thestar.com.
Translation: I just agree with the mayor on everything!
“A lot of this stuff that’s coming forward never even came to the board. So it’s not all the board’s responsibility,†Mammoliti said. “But — they oversee it. And when you oversee it, and there’s a change, as the mayor’s proposing to do, then that’s why I support the change.â€
Translation: It wasn’t my responsibility but the mayor thinks the new board should take responsibility and I always agree with the mayor. Even though I filed a human rights complaint against him once.
This is the best part, though:
The fixtures deal, the auditor reported, was split into small increments to avoid board oversight. Mammoliti offered another reason he might never have heard about it: committees sometimes met by telephone at 8 a.m., when he was busy with his family.
“It could’ve been discussed in the morning meetings, I don’t know. I never partook in those early morning meetings because I’ve gotta take my daughter to school,†he said.
Translation: I’m not responsible for anything because the meetings were held way too early in the morning.
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