TheTigerMaster
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If no recording surfaces eventually the media circus surrounding it has to die down and then he wins with his base which could possibly get him a second term next year. As for brother Doug's escapades in the 80's unless the Globe follows up that story will die quickly too. They are both appearing very emboldened again today which strikes fear in my heart.
Who knows ... it's London. I certainly don't care. Nor do I expect those in London to be worrying about Toronto local politics.If Fontana was charged with breech of trust then where's the outrage there?
Ford says he's hiring new staff in the next couple of days. While this is happening, I think it's fair to say that the primary goal of anybody applying to work in his office is to take advantage of the situation, maybe hear something and get famous doing the media rounds. Nobody can seriously be applying to this job with professional stability and growth in their sights. Ford won't be able to trust his staff unless he hires all of his family.
You're right that she hasn't come out and said she considering removal but she has said she's looking at all options and will follow due process. Nothing wrong with that. My point is that I don't think we've reached the point where it's an option - save the removal discussion for when any charges are laid or Ford decides to stop working. Part of this is also the 24h media's fault for needing something to talk about when the only thing coming from Ford is "everything's fine."When did Wynne ever say that she was considering removing Ford? All she's said is that she's monitoring the situation. Would you rather her say that she's totally clueless about the situation at City Hall?
Council can just circumvent Ford...this isn't Rahm Emanuel's Chicago.
As a Toronto ex-pat residing in New York, I was waiting for Adam and the New Yorker to join the fun. But I want to point out a couple mild corrections. The amalgamation of Toronto with its boroughs is not analogous to NYC merging with NJ and Long Island. It is simply analogous to NYC itself, the old city of Toronto being Manhattan, and the surrounding boroughs playing the role of, well, the boroughs. Etobicoke as Staten Island, North York as Queens, Scarborough as the Bronx, East York and York as Brooklyn. The tensions in Toronto are no different than the tensions in New York when it comes to outer borough vs Manhattan on topics like tolls and bike lanes and whose roads got plowed first. And like New York the Toronto Sun (read: Post/News)-reading boroughs tend to vote for candidates different than the Globe/Star/National Post (read: WSJ/Times)-reading core.
The other thing I want to point out is how Ford came to be. The previous mayor was very similar to John Lindsay and his legacy tarred by a garbage strike much as how labour issues harmed Lindsay's record. Ford was a one-note, Tea-Party-esque protest vote to take revenge on the unions and on the progressive elite. However, many of the middle-of-the-road voters never thought Ford and his, er, under-educated mind, would start messing with transit, or urban planning, or the city's libraries, or show up to work every day at noon then knock off early to coach football or host a boorish radio show with his even more boorish brother. He was already finished at the next election. The frenzy over the crack video (and more to the point, his handling of it) is just the icing on the cake.