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Based on @goldsbie's tweets, I will now predict that Doug is going to be taking a job in Cho's new office, but will act like he and Cho are really co-MPPs.

Then based on all his experience at Queen's Park, he'll run to replace Cho in 2018.
 
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Roy's Square said:
Based on @goldsbie's tweets, I will now predict that Doug is going to be taking a job in Cho's new office, but will act like he and Cho are really co-MPPs.

Then based on all his experience at Queen's Park, he'll run to replace Cho in 2018.
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I don't think he'd try for a Scarborough riding but he'll try to ride the blue wave, probably in Etobicoke. Now that's he's delivered for Cho, it sure puts Brown on the spot. Looks good on him. He'll be looking over his shoulder the whole time Doug's around.
 
What Blue Wave? One Scarborough riding is at best a ripple. And some of the less crazy/craven PCs are not happy with Brown and the Sex Ed stunt.

There's also a process at OLB to award 3 casinos in the GTA. Dougie would probably be checking out 'opportunities' using his new-found influence with the PCs to become an insider lobbying with one or some of the bidders. He did try to promote a new casino (after the city had voted against any new casinos) on the waterfront just after being elected Councilor in 2010.

I don't think he wants to spend time hanging around with Cho and his religious Right followers. I think he'll be thinking about applying his political and business talents emulating Trump's casino/hotel/ real estate development career prep for a Top Office bid.
 
AND only 28.14% of the eligible voters even bothered to show up at the polls. A real hotbed of PC support in Scarburbia. Cho's going to have to promise them a subway or something before 2018.
Cho didn't even get one vote per Sex Ed promise letter (13,000) sent out. Soooo, the good news is he's off council.
 
In 2014, the turnout was 47.48%. Compare that with yesterday's turnout of 28.14%.

That means yesterday, about 71.86% didn't care one way or another. They had something more important than voting, to do. Wonder if they'll be complaining about anything at Queens Park, or City Hall, sometime later?
 
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AND only 28.14% of the eligible voters even bothered to show up at the polls. A real hotbed of PC support in Scarburbia. Cho's going to have to promise them a subway or something before 2018.
Cho didn't even get one vote per Sex Ed promise letter (13,000) sent out. Soooo, the good news is he's off council.
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But then again... with excuses of sounding crass, Cho who is 79 yrs has made no sense on council for years. 2018 makes him well in his 80's and with a little luck too old to campaign or slightly confused to even remember who Brown or Ford are.
 
Raymond Cho is leading early. Only 20 polls reporting out of 234 polls
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AND only 28.14% of the eligible voters even bothered to show up at the polls. A real hotbed of PC support in Scarburbia. Cho's going to have to promise them a subway or something before 2018.
Cho didn't even get one vote per Sex Ed promise letter (13,000) sent out. Soooo, the good news is he's off council.
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I am happy that Neethan 'I am so desperate to be a Politician' Shan lost :D
 
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Now that's he's delivered for Cho, it sure puts Brown on the spot. Looks good on him. He'll be looking over his shoulder the whole time Doug's around.
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Agreed about Brown (heh, heh), but did Thug really "deliver" for Cho? Is there anything to suggest Ford's participation here is what got Cho elected? Given how unimpressive the whole sad thing was - I mean, Jesus: hardly anyone showing up to bother voting, and from a pool split among 11 candidates - it doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment to me, anyway. Certainly nothing to brag about, not that that will stop Dofo from braying triumphantly about it to anyone who'll listen.

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But then again... with excuses of sounding crass, Cho who is 79 yrs has made no sense on council for years. 2018 makes him well in his 80's and with a little luck too old to campaign or slightly confused to even remember who Brown or Ford are.
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If this were a Simpsons episode it would involve Grandpa being tricked into running for public office by a venal but not overly-bright would-be political operative who has his own self-serving scheme in mind. ("I'm gonna use this old fool to open my own casino!!") Probably voiced by some 4th rate C-lister like Kevin James.
 
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Agreed about Brown (heh, heh), but did Thug really "deliver" for Cho? Is there anything to suggest Ford's participation here is what got Cho elected? Given how unimpressive the whole sad thing was - I mean, Jesus: hardly anyone showing up to bother voting, and from a pool split among 11 candidates - it doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment to me, anyway. Certainly nothing to brag about, not that that will stop Dofo from braying triumphantly about it to anyone who'll listen.
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Re the 11-candidate pool split: remember that that's mitigated by the party system at a provincial/federal level, so what you basically have is something that can be whittled down to Lib/Con/NDP versus "everyone else". Now, *municipally*, where party labels do not factor in, 11 candidates can = chaos where incumbent advantage becomes the "oh, the heck with it" option...
 
FordFest is back.

Doug Ford said he hopes to schedule Ford Fest, the community event championed by his late brother Rob, for a day in the coming week.

“Ford Nation never left. Ford Nation has always been there,” he said in an interview about last week’s Ontario PC byelection victory. “We’re going to be having our Ford Fest in the next week and we’ll be announcing that.”

This would be the first Ford Fest since Rob Ford’s death in March.

Doug Ford said the event — which has grown in size over the years — will return to the family home in Etobicoke.

“Since Rob has passed, we want to bring it back to our house and we’re just going to continue on in the memory of Rob,” Ford said Friday.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2016/09/03/coming-soon-ford-fest
 
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FordFest is back.

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/09/03/coming-soon-ford-fest
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Moving it back to the backyard is telling IMO for several reasons:
  1. Most important is that Robbie is not there to trot out and Mikey is to smart (so far) to be trotted out like a sacrificial lamb.
  2. The Fords cannot get away with a political function out of season.
  3. There is not enough D'Nation to make a spectacle.
  4. Ostentatiousness and the Ontario PC party.
  5. Lost suppliers offering free stuff or "pay for play".
  6. Intimate meet and greets with noted politicians in a "non political" way, see #2.
  7. Cho too old for funky chicken competition with anti-LGBTQQ2A+ thugs.
 
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