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Retired Councillor Howard Moscoe is releasing his memoirs this fall. Call Me Pish<\/span>er – A Madcap Romp Through City Hall will be released this October from Yorkland Publishing.\u00a0<\/span>Howard Moscoe has been threatening to do something like this for years, since before he retired from a 32-year career in municipal politics back in 2010. \u00a0<\/span>And this October, the former councillor for Eglinton-Lawrence is making good. Moscoe, who former mayor Mel Lastman once described as \u201cthe best excuse for birth control I know,\u201d is publishing his memoirs.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cIt is a madcap romp through city hall,\u201d said Moscoe on a visit to the Toronto City Hall press gallery Aug. 22. \u201cI had a lot of bizarre things happen in politics. I have four chapters I call the ‘Bizarre of the Bizarre’ \u2014 just bizarre incidents that occurred. But bizarre incidents occurred through my whole run at city hall.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Call Me Pisher: A Madcap Romp Through City Hall<\/em> has an opening line that Moscoe promises sets the tone for the rest: \u201cMy grandfather was a horse thief, my grandmother a bootlegger, my father a bookmaker and my brother a scalper; so there was nothing left for me but politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Retired Councillor Howard Moscoe is releasing his memoirs this fall. Call Me Pisher – A Madcap Romp Through City Hall will be released this October from Yorkland Publishing.\u00a0Howard Moscoe has been threatening to do something like this for years, since before he retired from a 32-year career in municipal politics back in 2010. \u00a0And this … Continue reading Breakfast Speaker March 17, 2018<\/span>