Rob Ford's Toronto

[MetroMan]

How does the Sun get away with shit like this?

What's missing?

 

[JayBeeGooner]

Global's poll had over 51% of "over 10,000" respondents saying they'd vote for Ford again. I'm seriously concerned at how gullible people in this city are if that poll represents any kind of truth. Ford should be getting no more than 5%... the real cooks who are beyond repair.

It's a TV poll. Take it with a grain of salt.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Mammolitti quits executive committee. Says not the time for partisanship. The rats are fleeing the sinking ship.

Giorgio Mammoliti, who resigned from the mayor's executive committee, is the first rat to escape the sinking ship. However, the ship is still floating, but barely.

 

[christiesplits]

Mammolitti quits executive committee. Says not the time for partisanship...

Grandstanding photo ops, on the other hand.

 

[car4041]

From the CTV story:

Mammoliti told reporters Monday he was inundated with calls from constituents urging him to leave the mayor’s inner circle.

If that's true (and who knows), then it's a sign that Ford's ouster is not causing an upswell in support for Ford.

 

[Johnny Au]

Time for something funny:

What's that Pokémon?

It's Fordlax!

This Pokémon likes to tell everyone that he respects taxpayers. Unfortunately, he uses taxpayer's money for his personal uses, including donating city funds for his high school football team, as well as using the police to escort his football team and using public transit buses to shuttle his football team. He said that everything he does is right and leftists are always wrong.

Fortunately, this Pokémon's days are numbered.

 

[kEiThZ]

I'd say there's a real possibility of the left splitting the vote and letting Ford back in.

 

[gweed123]

I'd say there's a real possibility of the left splitting the vote and letting Ford back in.

I'd say there's an even greater possibility of Ford and another right wing candidate running (especially if it's a by-election), and them splitting the vote. If both Rob and Giorgio run, it would be a pretty big split on the right.

 

[Juan_Lennon416]

I hate to bring this up but will radicals target Paul Magder?

 

[nfitz]

What's missing?

That Ford voted in favour of dropping it. The actual conflict of interest in question.

It's not like it's a real newspaper. Why worry about it?

 

[MetroMan]

That Ford voted in favour of dropping it. The actual conflict of interest in question.

It's not like it's a real newspaper. Why worry about it?

Bingo. I worry about it because quite a lot of people read it. Low income, low education readers prefer The Sun. That's a big segment and curiously (not really), the demographic who voted for Ford, yet the ones who lost the most with his policies.

 

[Electrify]

You should read the articles they have on their website now.

Rob Ford's conflict nothing compared to Ontario's Liberals - Christina Blizzard
Rob Ford case had no business being in the courts - Simon Kent (Quote of the day: "What on earth is the business of government doing in a courtroom anyway?")
Suing over stationery: Ford sacked while sins of left overlooked - Ezra Levant (comments conveniently turned off, that prick is such a cowardly weasel)
Voters should decide Ford’s fate - Editorial

 

[Electrify]

Question: Assuming Ford files an appeal (which he certainly will), does he have to state on what grounds while he files it? And does the court reserve the right to deny the grounds of the appeal before the case is even heard? Or does a file for appeal automatically mean it gets heard in trial?

I guess what I'm asking is is there a chance that Ford files an appeal based on one particular aspect of the case, and the court simply says "that isn't sufficient grounds for an appeal, go away"? Or does the court have to listen to his appeal, no matter how baseless it is?

I'd like an answer to this too. Does he just have to ask for an appeal and he gets it, or does he have to apply for one on grounds that the judge overlooked key points in his ruling?

 

[adma]

I'd say there's an even greater possibility of Ford and another right wing candidate running (especially if it's a by-election), and them splitting the vote. If both Rob and Giorgio run, it would be a pretty big split on the right.

Except that that's more a split in the yahoo-populist wing, not the right wing. And I can't really see Giorgio getting above lower single digits--which is why he withdrew from the 2010 mayoral race in the first place, remember.

But let's also not forget that with his record preceding him, Ford's not going to have an easy go of it at debates, etc--i.e. there's a pretty good likelihood of some kind of campaign catastrophe that 2010-style political Teflon couldn't fix. And of course, it's hard to figure who on Council would support a candidate with this kind of legal black mark on his record--essentially, Ford will be even more of a political orphan than he ever was. All he has is the so-called "silent majority" voting bloc that is Ford Nation to go by.

In a way, and I've stated as much before: if he does succeed, it'll have a touch of "homies vanquishing the whitey establishment" a la Marion Barry in DC.

 

[King of Kensington]

I'd say there's a real possibility of the left splitting the vote and letting Ford back in.

Not likely. The progressive vote will almost certainly be united behind one candidate.

The right-wing vote is far more likely to split.