Long time lurker, first time poster...
I was so pissed off watching that debate. Why did none of the candidates go after Ford harder?
He keeps trying to marginalize his lies, indiscretions, and law-breaking as "his personal life". So why not say things like "in my personal life, I don't smoke crack. I spend time with my spouse and children. I don't hang out with known gang members, I frequent this fine city's restaurants. I don't lie about my alcoholism and drug taking, I walk along our waterfront. ". Etc.
These candidates disgust me with their cowardess.
They need to go after him with easily memorable and repeatable sound bites that slay him. And they need to repeat the hell out of them. Ford will stick to his sound bites, so it's going to be easy to predict what he will say, so for god sake, get media trained, get better spoken and better prepared, and bring a god damned fight to the table! I'm passionate about this city and I want to see some damn passion from these candidates as to how disgusted they are with Ford and his so-called personal life. He can't be allowed to marginalize his abysmal judgement as merely a personal problem.
The world is watching people, step up your fucking game.