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What? He did put out a budget smaller than the year before.

Um...you completely missed the point, which was that there is as much evidence to suggest that previous office's were overstaffed as there is to suggest Fords is understaffed. Anyway, if all this talk about Tory running in place of Chow is true, I'm completely overjoyed. There's nobody I'd...

Yeah, it is a good question and nobody has answered it yet. What exactly isn't being done that would be being done with 7 or 8 extra staffers? People are consistently saying that the mayor's office is understaffed, but there's about as much reason to think previous office's were overstaffed...

I have no clue. If their other duties are being completed (and they would have to be, I presume), then its possible, especially since I believe they're paid a base salary and work irregular hours. Like I said, I do have a problem with this, but I don't think it invalidates Ford's track record on...

I don't think most of the staff were actually football coaches, and nobody knows how useful any of the staff actually were. I'll agree that the Don Bosco repairs were an abuse of resources. Presumably they would be dealt with at some point and Ford consistently solves other minor issues for...

Ford does have a better track record. His 2013 office budget is $1.9 million, which is down $700,000 from Miller, and he's reduced the number of staff as well. His expenses last year were below that of 25 councilor's: http://app.toronto.ca/tcer_web/Controller?action=1&selectedYear=2012. Not to...

With the exception of smearing others (most who deserve it in my books) and taking credit where none is due (what's new in politics?), I don't have a problem with any of these. The only law I'm aware Ford has skirted was the COI case, and I've long maintained that entire case was nonsense and...

Most of your post is comprised of ad hominem attacks. I'm not going to respond to those, because quite simply, there's really no point. If someone doesn't want to discuss issues rationally and goes as far as to call me pretentious for advocating that people can disagree without calling each...

If it was true, I would defend it. I mean, if somebody said "Chances are if you're not black, you won't get HIV" and the stats backed it up, I wouldn't have a problem with that. It would be true. Thanks for clearing that up. I was wrong on that count then. There's definitely a case to be...

Except we're not talking about science here. We're talking about a difference in values. The Earth isn't flat. That's a fact. Ford supporters generally want smaller government, less spending and lower taxes. There's nothing factually incorrect about that - its a difference in values.

Nobody said simply being gay is a risk factor for HIV - what Ford said was that if you're not gay or not a drug user, chances are you won't get HIV. That is true. In 2006, a combined 79% of males with HIV got it through male-to-male sexual contact or through drug use. Being gay doesn't make you...

My point is that in regards to Ford - as with almost any issue with public divide - there are both stupid and reasonable people on both sides, and there are usually compelling arguments on both sides. This isn't so much an argument as it is a fact - viewing anyone that disagrees with you as a...

More compassionate? Ignoring the unprecedented amount of humiliating harassment, cruel jokes (how many times have the ) and malicious attacks on the man, I can't even count how many times I've seen people wish death on him or for him to get a heart attack. In fact, on this very forum, several...

He's a bad leader in your opinion. That's not a fact, although you are entitled to your opinion. And I can't agree that most people here back up their rants with facts. Some people here do, but some of the most extreme and unreasonable anti-Ford vitriol I've seen has been on this thread.

I went through this on this thread a week or two ago. He's never said anything explicitly homophobic (barring the "Trudeau is a fag" line, which may or may not be true due to the conflicting reports from Gawker and the Star). "Homophobe" is bandied about in regard to Ford, but I haven't seen a...

There's no reasonable debate on either side, and ThinkRicky's post is pretty much proof of that. While there are plenty of people who support Ford for poor reasons, there are equally as many who dislike Ford for poor or imaginary reasons (homophobe, racist, he's fat, he's red, never had a job...

Are you referring to me? Just because I have a different opinion than the majority of you guys, doesn't mean I'm a troll or shill. I'm trying to have some reasonable discussions about these issues, and a good chunk of the users here don't seem to want to (a good chunk do want to as well, I...

Right off the bat, let me just say that I'm not arguing that Ford isn't homophobic. I've just never previously seen any reason to label him as such. I don't know what lies in the man's heart. I don't see how any of this is homophobic on Rob's part. He didn't make the comments, and his...

I'm sick of hearing this nonsense about Ford being homophobic. Name one thing he has ever said that is homophobic. He made one comment that is statistically true (in regards to AIDS) and that seems to be the entire basis for calling him homophobic. There was a huge discrepancy in the...

I really don't know. I don't see anyone on the far left running, as Olivia Chow is the best bet. Same goes for anybody running on the far right, as Ford has a solid base of support. If somebody else does enter, its probably going to be a centrist. No names come to mind. I don't see John Tory...