Last Thursday, Towhey was marched out of city hall by security.
Multiple media outlets reported that Towhey’s firing was prompted by Towhey urging Ford to enter a rehabilitation program. One source told the Star the same thing last Friday.
Other accounts emerged. Two other sources told the Star that while Towhey had indeed been advising Ford to seek medical assistance, the firing was closely related to Ford’s ouster as coach.
The sources told the Star that Ford was so emotional after losing his beloved post at Don Bosco that he ordered Towhey to go to the school and retrieve thousands of dollars worth of football equipment he had donated. When Towhey told Ford that this was a bad idea, the sources said, Ford fired him.
The sources said Towhey implored other aides not to answer any phone calls from Ford that night because the mayor was so upset. Accustomed to Ford’s mercurial behaviour, Towhey, who thought he had experienced a “phantom†firing, then returned to city hall the next day — at which point Ford asked him to help arrange a party next week with Don Bosco players and other friends.
Towhey, incredulous, calmly explained that the mayor’s office had more urgent business. This so infuriated Ford, the sources said, that he reminded Towhey that he had been fired the night before and had him escorted from the building by security.
