Larry Di Ianni
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Larry Di Ianni is the outgoing mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
Di Ianni was first elected to Stoney Creek city council in 1982, where he served until the 2000 amalgamation of Stoney Creek into Hamilton. He then served as a Hamilton councillor until November 2003, when he defeated former provincial NDP cabinet minister David Christopherson in that year’s mayoral election (52% to 39%).
Di Ianni's major policies included the completion of the controversial Red Hill Expressway, business tax reduction, airport development, improving relations among the amalgamated municipalities, taking poliitical opponents to court and obtaining additional social service funding from senior levels of government in the wake of cost downloading via the previous Conservative provincial government.
Di Ianni immigrated to Canada from Italy as a young boy. Di Ianni has previously worked as a high school teacher and principal. He has been married to wife Janet for 34 years and they have three children, Robert, Paul and Stephanie.
On Monday March 6, 2006 Hamilton City Council made legal history by voting 12-1 to charge Mayor Di Ianni with violating the Municipal Elections Act
On August 24, 2006, Di Ianni pled guilty to 6 charges regarding illegal campaign finances in his 2003 campaign, in which he received large amounts of money from development-related corporations and outspent his opponents by a large margin.
Di Ianni was the first Mayor ever to be convicted of violating Ontario's Municipal Election Act. Di Ianni received a lenient sentence because the Superior Court Justice deemed the violations to be unintentional and because of Di Ianni's good community service record. (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/08/25/diianni-guilty.html)
Di Ianni claimed to have collected over $100,000.00 in donations to finance his unsuccessful bid for re-election in the November, 2006 campaign.
On November 13, 2006, Larry Di Ianni was narrowly defeated by challanger Fred Eisenberger. [2]
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| Preceded by: Bob Wade |
Mayor of Hamilton 2003-2006 |
Succeeded by: Fred Eisenberger |
