Sammy Forcillo
Savino "Sammy" Forcillo is a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.
Background
He has Italian ancestry and has a degree from the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP).
Civic Party
He was a member of Jean Drapeau's Civic Party. He was elected to Montreal's City Council in 1978 in Saint-Jacques, a district with a significant amount of gay residents. He was re-elected in 1982, but was defeated by RCM candidate Raymond Blain in 1986. In November 1992 though, he won a by-election in the same district.
Vision Montreal
When the Civic Party ceased to exist and merged with Jérôme Choquette's Parti des Montréalais (Montrealers’ Party), Forcillo decided to support Pierre Bourque and join Vision Montreal. He was re-elected in 1994 and became Deputy Chairman of Montreal Executive Committee.
Team Montreal
In 1997 he was asked to resign from the Executive Committee. He left Vision Montreal and sat an an Independent.
In 1998 he first announced that he would support Jacques Duchesneau for Mayor, but eventually changed his mind. He ended up being re-elected as a candidate for Jean Doré's Équipe Montréal (Team Montreal) in 1998.
Union Montreal
In 2000 Forcillo sat again as an Independent and joined Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (French: Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l’Île de Montréal or UCIM). The party is now know as Union Montreal.
He lost against Vision Montreal's candidate Robert Laramée in 2001, but was re-elected in 2005 representing the merged district of Sainte-Marie—Saint-Jacques.
He has been a Member of Montreal's Executive Committee since then. [1]