Rob Ford's Toronto

[animatronic]

It's rather funny that Ben Johnson has joined the Ford team. He never made a successful comeback after his drug scandal. A premonition, perhaps?

More like a casting decision.

 

[greenegg]

It's rather funny that Ben Johnson has joined the Ford team. He never made a successful comeback after his drug scandal. A premonition, perhaps?

He actually did come back from his '88 Olympic scandal, only to get caught again in '93 resulting in a lifetime ban from athletics.

 

[Torontovibe]

http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/c...nnel=72c5715242ccd310VgnVCM1000006cd60f89RCRD

This rebate program kinda rubs me the wrong way. Why in the world would the City rebate contributions up to a maximum of $1000? Funding civic engagement or something? I really don't think we should be paying for campaigns, whether it's Ford's or someone we like.

If there was ever a gravy train...

I didn't know about that. Yep, this is what I call a gravy train!

 

[rightwingSUVdriver]

Can anyone recall what country Ben Johnson came from?

Bumbaclot!

 

[casita]

It's rather funny that Ben Johnson has joined the Ford team. He never made a successful comeback after his drug scandal. A premonition, perhaps?

Sounds like he may have fallen on hard times?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnson_(sprinter)#Late_1990s_and_beyond

 

[westyvt]

Sounds like he may have fallen on hard times?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnson_(sprinter)#Late_1990s_and_beyond

I like the "According to a 1998 article in Outside magazine, Johnson spent much of the latter part of the 1990s living downstairs in the house he shared with his mother Gloria." What is it about Ford's friends and their mothers?

 

[basic]

I wonder if Sam Losco well be giving Rob tips on giving campaign speeches while high on mushrooms?

 

[YYZ2YHZ]

Oh God. Sam Tarasco and I used to work together. We are friends on Facebook. I just checked his page and there's the picture of Rob, Ben and him. Lots of comments about crack.

All I can think is that he's using this as a chance to raise his profile. When he wasn't doing TPBs he was a bouncer and managed sketchy call centres in Halifax.

 

[PinkLucy]

So Rob is against the Open Streets idea and says it will be chaos. If Rob is against it, it must be a good idea.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1257671/r...et-closure-for-open-streets-initiative-chaos/

 

[dforthandbview]

There's a new Trailer Park Boys movie starring Sam Losco coming out this month. How convenient...

 

[EagleEye]

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/toronto2014election/2014/04/08/rob_ford_announces_support_of_disgraced_sprinter_ben_johnson_trailer_park_boy.html

Rob Ford, known internationally for his illegal drug use, emerged from his office on Tuesday afternoon to announce a new member of his campaign team: disgraced former sprinter Ben Johnson, known internationally for his steroid use.

 

[themarc]

It's rather funny that Ben Johnson has joined the Ford team. He never made a successful comeback after his drug scandal. A premonition, perhaps?

Not quite the dream team of role models forming up there huh?

 

[OSS 117]

I imagine Rob and Doug went looking for celebrities to support their campaign and get the donors out, and this was all they could come up with---a disgraced former Olympian and a fourth-string actor on The Trailer Park Boys. I wonder who was next on the list after these guys? I'm thinking they'd be down to choosing between the son of the guy who played Relic on The Beachcombers, and a random German Shepherd they'd tell people was The Littlest Hobo.

 

[JWBF]

I wonder what Benji is being pay?

I imagine Rob and Doug went looking for celebrities to support their campaign and get the donors out, and this was all they could come up with---a disgraced former Olympian and a fourth-string actor on The Trailer Park Boys. I wonder who was next on the list after these guys? I'm thinking they'd be down to choosing between the son of the guy who played Relic on The Beachcombers, and a random German Shepherd they'd tell people was The Littlest Hobo.

They are certainly not Scientology.

I imagine Rob and Doug went looking for celebrities to support their campaign and get the donors out, and this was all they could come up with---a disgraced former Olympian and a fourth-string actor on The Trailer Park Boys. I wonder who was next on the list after these guys? I'm thinking they'd be down to choosing between the son of the guy who played Relic on The Beachcombers, and a random German Shepherd they'd tell people was The Littlest Hobo.

Hmmm... Wallin, Duffy, and Brazeau?

 

[pattycakes]

They have managed to turn this into a full on freak show. Does anyone know a bearded lady? I'm still waiting for the trombone or tuba player to show up FFS.