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http://www.thestar.com/news/city_ha..._distances_himself_from_brother_rob_ford.html

This is the opinion of a Conservative strategist regarding Doug Ford distancing himself from Rob, while at the same time taking credit for achievements.

“It’s a strategy that makes absolutely no sense. And what it shows is that these guys are utterly rudderless and don’t have a strategy, and are just kind of grasping at straws,†said Pantazopoulos, a partner at Maple Leaf Strategies. “I wouldn’t view it as Doug necessarily trying to take credit for the good while distancing himself from the bad. I think it’s more a question of: he can’t decide whether to distance himself or take credit, and therefore he’s kind of doing both.â
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JWBF said:
Mayor should have power to veto council: Doug Ford
"'It works in New York, it works in Chicago, it works in L.A.,' Ford said."
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/10/20/mayor-should-have-power-to-veto-council-doug-ford
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Interesting that in the most recent Chicago mayoral election, there were only SIX candidates. Compare that to the number of Toronto's mayoral candidates!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_mayoral_election,_2011#Candidates

How many mayoral debates do we have? 50 something? With only six candidates, you could invite every one to every debate!
 
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Cooper said:
Obvious question, Doug: If you got 98% of your agenda through, why do you need additional powers? Can't have it both ways.
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Also, how do you get 98% of your agenda through a) despite being outvoted most of the time and b) not having anything to show for it (unbuilt subways don't count)?
 
the lemur said:
Also, how do you get 98% of your agenda through a) despite being outvoted most of the time and b) not having anything to show for it (unbuilt subways don't count)?
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That's the most disingenuous question from here to Timbuktu.

casita said:
#TOpoli Gods, please let Doug Ford's reaction to losing be caught live like Jane Pitfield's in 2006: http://youtu.be/2bprBuuzwek
https://twitter.com/MetroManTO/status/522599966951628800

"oh I lost?"
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This IS amusing but she was only being told that the one station had declared her out a few minutes in, so her reaction is understandable. I expect Tory will be crowned within 20 minutes of results coming in, probably sooner. Ward 2....it's hard to know what's going on there but I'd like to see it go neck and neck for a long time, really giving Rob that "something to fight for" the family wanted for him on Switcheroo Friday....and then I hope Domise pulls it out in the end, winning by just the slimmest, most painful of margins.

For all his weird popping up in other wards, has Ford actually campaigned at all in Ward 2 to the best of anyone's knowledge? And assuming he actually is up to leaving his house to do political chores, why IS he showing up in Ward 17 instead of going door-to-door in his own ward? I guess my real question is: WTF?
 
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the lemur said:
Also, how do you get 98% of your agenda through a) despite being outvoted most of the time and b) not having anything to show for it (unbuilt subways don't count)?
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Considering that subways, subways, subways were pretty much their only agenda (ok, ignore stuff like the Land Transfer Tax) and they like to pretend that a new subway has been built, in their little pea brains they can stretch this to mean that they got 98% of their agenda through. And the removal of the VRT is just icing on the cake! Heck, they might as well call it 100%.
 
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