ParkdalePetunia
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Mark Towhey is a sleaze. There's no point in listening to anything he says. He'll put partisanship before the good of the city every time.
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Rob Ford's Toronto
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Okay, who had:
"Shocking incompetence (even by the low standards we've come to expect) will be an ongoing theme, as well as constant lies and rampant hypocrisy. There will be a seemingly endless parade of ethical violations, but even the major ones will eventually seem like background muzak in an elevator ride as we slowly decend into Dante's 8th level of municipal Hell (there's going to be an extra layer by the time this is done). The level of discourse that we were subjected to during the campaign is going to seem like listening to the Oxford Union Debating Society by the time we roll into year 4 of the Ford administration.
I don't want to ruin any surprises, but there will definitely be drugs and criminals - and not criminals in the sense of "those crumbums at City Hall are all crooks", I'm talking about actual "don't drop the soap in the shower" criminals. Which, obviously, will mean lawyers, judges, courts, and police - as in massive police investigations. Yes, investigationS, plural. Huge investigations that have their own names, and spinoffs and possibly-related sequals. Not that we'll get much disclosure on this stuff because it will be so explosive that the courts will impose gag orders at pretty much every opportunity and there will be multiple quicky plea deals that keep evidence under wraps.
Oh, and, as you've probably guessed by now, soon we'll be begging for that Nenshi guy who just got elected in Calgary, but did you also know that we'll also be begging for Edmonton's mayor?"
Because if anyone guessed that, they should totally win a prize.
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voxpopulicosmicum
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^Yeah, but Towhey's at least fulfilling his role as an ideological nutbar. What's more concerning is the deference with which Mayor McCracky continues to be treated by supposed "journalists". I mean, simple ideological affinity doesn't explain continued deference in these circumstances. It is, unfortunately, more readily explained by ... something else.
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blackballed
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Rob is "Mayor" of Toronto as Joffrey is "King" of Westeros.
typezed
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Three things repeated over and over again in the next campaign that could harm Rob Ford's brand:
1. Office staff as football coaches.
2. Dave Price, $130,000 a year.
3. $41 a year for the next 30 years for three stops.
1. Office staff as football coaches.
2. Dave Price, $130,000 a year.
3. $41 a year for the next 30 years for three stops.
ParkdalePetunia
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Potentially actually only 2 stops
penelope_sch
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Video of Rob Ford drink-toss made public via NOW Magazine:
http://nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=195021
http://nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=195021
ParkdalePetunia
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Anyone good at video editing? Can we take that video and add soundbites of Rob and Doug calling people wimps and complaining about people whining? It didn't even come close to him. Or better yet, add the soundbites about them talking about how it hit him in the face? and how it hurt? and then add the complaining about whiners and wimps?
Dubster
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Surprise! Rob Ford and Doug Ford are giant opportunistic liars who don't give a shit about other people.
insidetheblurredlines
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Karen Stintz is no prize. She wants to run for Mayor. You can't run for Mayor with out supporting a subway to scarborough. You can disagree with that all you want but that is the truth. Olivia Chow even talked subways on a townhall call a couple month ago. Karen Stintz policy advisor in the TTC chair office has an audio clip he posts on twitter.
Andy gave his expert opinion. Rob didn't want to hear it. So Andy Byford and his staff did the leg work on the reseach for what the Mayor wants.
Its staff that does the work. Half these councillors don't even bother to read their adgenda let alone rally votes.
Karen was the face of this plan. But Rob gets the credit. He will also be then one that gets the blame when more money is needed to complete the project.
OSS 117
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i think the first crack was when Ford called him at home to ask for a bus for his football team.
pattycakes
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From the NOW article:
"Ossington Creative’s Plummer told NOW he decided to post the footage after reading Everett’s interview in the Star, which he felt misrepresented how close the drink came to hitting Ford.
Plummer asserts that the mayor’s staff did not ask him to take the video down but he did so of his own volition on Thursday because he didn’t want to give Ford’s office “a headache.” Brendan Croskerry, who sometimes works as Ossington Creative’s lead music composer, is also employed as the executive assistant to Ford’s chief of staff Earl Provost."
Looks like this one backfired too! Ooops, it shows Ford is lying again.
"Ossington Creative’s Plummer told NOW he decided to post the footage after reading Everett’s interview in the Star, which he felt misrepresented how close the drink came to hitting Ford.
Plummer asserts that the mayor’s staff did not ask him to take the video down but he did so of his own volition on Thursday because he didn’t want to give Ford’s office “a headache.” Brendan Croskerry, who sometimes works as Ossington Creative’s lead music composer, is also employed as the executive assistant to Ford’s chief of staff Earl Provost."
Looks like this one backfired too! Ooops, it shows Ford is lying again.
Dubster
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Any chance Everett could take Ford to court for defamation? Or that the press will call him out as a liar to his face? Nope. I hate this city sometimes.
dforthandbview
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Ford had called Byford before that to complain after an incident with a streetcar driver. So perhaps that was strike one and the football bus incident was strike two?
Looks way different from DoFo's accounts. Rob didn't even flinch.
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