Raymond Cho
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Dr. Raymond Cho is currently (as of September 2004) a City Councillor in Toronto, Canada. He represents Ward 42, Scarborough Rouge-River.
Before being elected, Cho worked as a Social Worker for the Catholic Children's Aid Society, the Toronto Board of Education, and the Scarborough Board of Education.
He was first elected to Metropolitan Toronto Council for Scarborough-Malvern in 1991, and was re-elected in 1994.
At the beginning of 1998, the City of Scarborough was amalgamated with five other municipalities and a regional government to form the new City of Toronto.
Cho was elected to the council for the new city representing Scarborough-Malvern. In 2000, he was again re-elected and now represents the new ward of Scarborough Rouge-River.
Cho was Chairman of the Toronto Zoo for two successive terms, and is currently on the Board of Management for the Zoo.
Since his first election, he has mobilized hundreds of volunteers on each year to plant trees in the Rouge Valley. He has organized and delivered over 100,000 pounds of food for the Daily Bread Food Bank.
Cho holds a Masters' Degree in Social Work and Doctorate Degree in Education from the University of Toronto.
Cho was a New Democratic Party candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1988 federal election.
He ran in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate. He called himself an "independent Liberal", and used the Liberal Party of Canada's red-and-white colours for his campaign materials. He was accused of trying to mislead voters by the official Liberal candidate, Derek Lee. Lee won the election, although Cho placed a respectable second with 6,692 votes 17.8% of the total), ahead of the candidates of the other two main parties, the Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party.
External link
- Cho's page as a Toronto city councillor (http://www.toronto.ca/councillors/cho1.htm)