Speaking as someone who will probably vote for Olivia (I like her on transit and housing; JT not so much), I find it odd that she would be gracious and patient in her reaction to today's developments, then go CP24 and complain about John Tory's aggressive take. Adam C-F is on Twitter saying she's trying to raise the tone. I would have agreed if she hadn't turned around and had a go at John Tory on television over his approach. God, I hate political campaigns.
Adam is wrong. People who are that partisan...I mean, he's as blind as the Ford Nation types because he REALLY believes Olivia Chow is, at a fundamental level, so so so much better than all these other fools. I am not beholden to Tory or Chow and I know what I saw today. He seemed decisive and straightforward and she was, as others have said, dodgy and insipid.
Adam says she is taking the "high road" because Doug's brother is sick.
Oh, does he mean the one who signed up to run for council today?
Fact is, the Fords think they're ENTITLED and that's why, putting the tumour aside, THREE Fords - in all their grief over poor Rob - signed up to run for public office today. Do the Adam C-F's of the world see some humble nobility in Doug taking one for the team while his brother begs him to not let all the great work they've done go for naught? Just please *cough cough* win one for the Gipper?
Man, I wish everyone would take the high road and be awesome and moral and do "the right thing," but get a clue; this is the real world and what the Fords did today was not heroic or laudable. It's as cynical as anything else they've done. If Rob hadn't signed up for Ward 2 and/or if Doug hadn't taken his place as a birthright, and if Mikey hadn't followed Diane's instructions to take the trustee gig he too so rightly deserves I might feel otherwise, but they didn't and I don't.
(And, hey, I hope Rob is OK but it's all there, black and white, in his statement. He's facing one of the greatest challenges in his life - this guy might actually have cancer or something very serious - but he's going to run for council; knowing he could be sick or undergoing treatment. Knowing, in fact, he is likely to win re-election, even if he spends the entirety of the rest of the campaign in a hospital bed. That's not some noble sacrifice. Giving up public office to concentrate on what's important would have been.)
