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Rob Ford's Toronto

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tovp said:
i spend a 5-10 hours a week in cafes near the ford family bunker and am stunned at some of the reasons given for still supporting him.

The craziest, from a senior who usually rants against immigrants and druggies, is that even if ford has a drug problem or bought drugs from the alleged video makers, he was just helping them out by giving them money to keep them from bugging other people into using drugs.
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lol!
 
Looking at Rob Ford today, for all the serious allegations he's facing, he still oddly seems to be enjoying all the media attention. Even as staff and their reputations are being discarded like used kleenex. This man has a very serious personality disorder.
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
wb Ummagumma66 - makes us real jealous about Nenshi.

AoD
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I've been jealous since I saw him on George Strombo last fall and then did some reading on him!
 
GenerationW said:
So how many staff members remain in Ford's office?
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12

EDIT: Swarley beat me to it. I'd say only 1 or 2 are left that can run the office and one of which his interim chief of staff who will likely be gone very soon.

EDIT 2: The IT guy in charge of updating Toronto.ca must have the "Edit Mayor's Staff page" bookmark as his home page.
 
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Bruvyman:

Well, beyond the fact that using public announcement of blocking someone to make a point is generally speaking considered bad form/baiting, at this rate he will be missing quite a few interesting posts in other sections of the forum. That or one could play the "I said I am blocking you but I really aren't" game.
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How about this angle... will he float this one?

In an attempt to take down his worst political enemy, the Toronto Star, Ford and his network of advisors schemed up a plan to attack the credibility of the newspaper by planting a bogus story that he felt the T.O. Star would pay for (something they claim never to do) and after they paid, Ford would publicize the hoax and back up his argument that the T.O. Star is nothing more than a dirty tabloid and, to top it off, he would donate the dirty money he received, by selling the video, to football programs across the GTHA.

To Ford's complete shock, the T.O. Star never took the bait, and furthermore, the part of the video later in the tape where Ford declares (with his arms around the dealers) the hoax and that he is anything but a crack addict, as the Star falsely claimed, went missing. So... The Star never falls for it, the video that proves it was all a hoax is missing, and his advisor can't jump ship fast enough as they can't agree on whether or not to fess up the hoax and exactly which advisor originally came up with the idea.

Of coarse Ford can't come out with the truth now because nobody would ever believe he would ever devise such a masterful setup. Ford knows that he may forever be the laughingstock of Canadian politics and the victim of ridicule and target of jokes like Scott Norwood or Ben Johnson.

Why is Ford avoiding the story? Because he's desperately hoping the missing video shows up so he can get a certain measure of credibility back and begin his ultimate quest to climb the ranks of Canadian politics straight to a seat in the House of Commons.

Ladies and gentlemen. Rob Ford did not smoke crack!!! He's guilty of nothing more than attempting to ruin the image and reputation of a corporation. But, the plan backfired and Ford is in desperation mode as he knows he probably made a critical mistake that he will recover from. Rob Ford has been ostracized by Canadian politics and he knows that the cameras will be there to watch him struggle to fit in to Canadian society as an ordinary citizen. This story is much deeper then it originally appears to be.
 
I am finding it hard to believe this is all happening, and it's gotten so bad that nothing else will surprise me in this situation. Surreal, as someone else posted.

But I have taken some time this afternoon to reflect on RF's mindset. Where's he coming from? He knows he's poisonous and that he should walk. I figure it's this --- it's a revenge trip. Revenge because he's lost every single one of his initiatives and even allies are walking away. A certain quality - obstinacy - is telling him to stick around for the spite of it all. Revenge trips are his bag, that's what he got elected on.

I so much hanker for the positive news we are accustomed to in Toronto. I'll have to wait, because I get the strongest feeling that this situation is going to end catastrophically and with impact to a large number of people.

It was briefly entertaining, or allow me to correct myself: amusing. Especially the part where RF handed out badges at Worthington's funeral. Now it has become dangerous, there is a mad man about to go ballistic, I think. It will be bad for the city.
 
Unfortunately, I can't say who this is coming from, but someone I know knows someone investigating the video/murder. He said to my friend today "If you knew what I know today you would quit too".

I think MetroMan's police friend is onto something. I'm going to have a hard time sleeping tonight. It's like Christmas!
 
darmstrongd said:
How about this angle... will he float this one?

In an attempt to take down his worst political enemy, the Toronto Star, Ford and his network of advisors schemed up a plan to attack the credibility of the newspaper by planting a bogus story that he felt the T.O. Star would pay for (something they claim never to do) and after they paid, Ford would publicize the hoax and back up his argument that the T.O. Star is nothing more than a dirty tabloid and, to top it off, he would donate the dirty money he received, by selling the video, to football programs across the GTHA.

To Ford's complete shock, the T.O. Star never took the bait, and furthermore, the part of the video later in the tape where Ford declares (with his arms around the dealers) the hoax and that he is anything but a crack addict, as the Star falsely claimed, went missing. So... The Star never falls for it, the video that proves it was all a hoax is missing, and his advisor can't jump ship fast enough as they can't agree on whether or not to fess up the hoax and exactly which advisor originally came up with the idea.

Of coarse Ford can't come out with the truth now because nobody would ever believe he would ever devise such a masterful setup. Ford knows that he may forever be the laughingstock of Canadian politics and the victim of ridicule and target of jokes like Scott Norwood or Ben Johnson.

Why is Ford avoiding the story? Because he's desperately hoping the missing video shows up so he can get a certain measure of credibility back and begin his ultimate quest to climb the ranks of Canadian politics straight to a seat in the House of Commons.

Ladies and gentlemen. Rob Ford did not smoke crack!!! He's guilty of nothing more than attempting to ruin the image and reputation of a corporation. But, the plan backfired and Ford is in desperation mode as he knows he probably made a critical mistake that he will recover from. Rob Ford has been ostracized by Canadian politics and he knows that the cameras will be there to watch him struggle to fit in to Canadian society as an ordinary citizen. This story is much deeper then it originally appears to be.
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Very, very interesting - but it being a real video seems more likely, to be honest.

Anyone hear CP24's feed? I heard "You guys might want to come see this, it's not what we expected" or something to that effect. Maybe they were talking about something completely different, but it did intrigue me!
 
darmstrongd said:
How about this angle... will he float this one?

In an attempt to take down his worst political enemy, the Toronto Star, Ford and his network of advisors schemed up a plan to attack the credibility of the newspaper by planting a bogus story that he felt the T.O. Star would pay for (something they claim never to do) and after they paid, Ford would publicize the hoax and back up his argument that the T.O. Star is nothing more than a dirty tabloid and, to top it off, he would donate the dirty money he received, by selling the video, to football programs across the GTHA.

To Ford's complete shock, the T.O. Star never took the bait, and furthermore, the part of the video later in the tape where Ford declares (with his arms around the dealers) the hoax and that he is anything but a crack addict, as the Star falsely claimed, went missing. So... The Star never falls for it, the video that proves it was all a hoax is missing, and his advisor can't jump ship fast enough as they can't agree on whether or not to fess up the hoax and exactly which advisor originally came up with the idea.

Of coarse Ford can't come out with the truth now because nobody would ever believe he would ever devise such a masterful setup. Ford knows that he may forever be the laughingstock of Canadian politics and the victim of ridicule and target of jokes like Scott Norwood or Ben Johnson.

Why is Ford avoiding the story? Because he's desperately hoping the missing video shows up so he can get a certain measure of credibility back and begin his ultimate quest to climb the ranks of Canadian politics straight to a seat in the House of Commons.

Ladies and gentlemen. Rob Ford did not smoke crack!!! He's guilty of nothing more than attempting to ruin the image and reputation of a corporation. But, the plan backfired and Ford is in desperation mode as he knows he probably made a critical mistake that he will recover from. Rob Ford has been ostracized by Canadian politics and he knows that the cameras will be there to watch him struggle to fit in to Canadian society as an ordinary citizen. This story is much deeper then it originally appears to be.
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That really does sound like Watergate.
 
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