My Mayor smokes crack............does yours.

[gsdx]

Is Doug Ford the bully he appears to be? The morning news has been playing portions of some of the debates and he comes across as a bully in a school yard. There's no real debate on his part - just lots of attacks and accusations.

 

[rareboy]

^ He's a worse bully than his younger brother.

You think Rob is mean and stupid?

Well double down on that and you've got Doug Ford.

 

[gsdx]

^ I thought so. And, of course, he denies any involvement with this disgusting incident:

On Tuesday, Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam, an ardent opponent of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, was the subject a homophobic attack in the form of a mailed letter from someone who claimed to be a supporter of Ford Nation.

She posted the letter on Twitter.

Some took to social media to call out out Wong-Tam for trying to tie the Fords to this attack, suggesting that she was playing politics.

"Why are you promoting @kristynwongtam tweet?” one person tweeted.

"For all we know Wong-Tam wrote this letter NO PROOF it came from [Ford Nation]."

Another person suggested that Wong-Tam was “playing the gay card.”

"You must be getting desperate," he wrote.

But journalist Jeet Heer had another view, laying the blame of these types of attacks at the feet of Rob and Doug Ford.

"These racist and homophobic outbursts aren’t accidents. They are a natural by-product of the type of politics the Fords practice," Heer wrote on Twitter.

"Whether or not the Fords are personally racist or homophobic is irrelevant: they appeal to a politics of racism and homophobia."

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/can...kes-sharp-turn-into-the-gutter-213131366.html

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

yes ford nation moves on. how sweet it is to be homophobic and racist. this is scary shit.

 

[gsdx]

You’ve got to hand it to Toronto mayoral candidate Doug Ford. He’s loud, aggressive and passionate.

Accurate? Well, not so much.

“Fifty-eight thousand new jobs"? Not really. In fact, Toronto has lost 64,000 jobs over the past year alone.

“Stopped the gravy train”? Only if adding $400 million to the city’s budget qualifies as stopping gravy trains nowadays.

“Worked day and night”? Possibly, but hard to imagine given he had the third-worst attendance record among city councillors last year.

But beyond trivial things like facts, it appears the accurate spelling of some of Toronto’s key regions is also not a requirement for candidate Ford.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dai...elling-or-facts-get-in-his-way-150444589.html

 

[gsdx]

By the way, for those not familiar with Toronto, the names should be Don Mills (not 'Done'), Eglinton (not 'Eglington'), and Eglinton West.

 

[rareboy]

Campaign Lie Detector: Doug Ford says 17 inaccurate or misleading things at his first debate

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

One example:

6) “I have no problem with the gay Pride parade whatsoever.”

Misleading. Ford has ranted at length about his problem with the Pride parade: in February of this year, he complained angrily about the “buck naked men” who participate. He pointedly used the phrase “buck naked men” five times in four minutes.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

and other reason to hate Doug Ford
He could have attended World Pride. But his his entire family chose to ignore the biggest event in Toronto this year.

maybe the next generation of Fords can tell us why.

or maybe not

 

[gsdx]

Campaign Lie Detector: Doug Ford says 17 inaccurate or misleading things at his first debate

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

Delightful read, actually.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Canada’s notorious Rob Ford was on the scene of a fatal steetcar accident, using his cell phone to call city transit officials.

YOU FUCKING TOOL YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED 911 BEFORE CALLING TRANSIT PEOPLE AND THEN YOU GET A SELFIE WHEN SOMEONE IS DYING.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...d-fatal-streetcar-collision-article-1.1958664

 

[gsdx]

^ If I hadn't seen 'nydailynews.com', I would have sworn The Onion had something to do with that. Appalling idiot to say the least, but "FUCKING TOOL" works, too.

 

[gsdx]

Well, with a week to go before the election, Rob Ford is in the news again, this time for walking the very fine line between the legal and illegal:

If you voted in the Toronto municipal election’s advanced polls late last week or over the weekend, there’s a chance you spotted Rob Ford at your polling station.

While it may be an election first to see a candidate so willfully skirting the rules – which ban all campaigning at polling stations – previous behaviour suggests we could have seen it coming. And whether you were offended or impressed by the mayor’s temerity likely depends on your previous impression of him.

Ford appeared a reported three times at polling stations across the city between Thursday and Saturday, and that doesn’t include going to an advanced polling station to cast his actual vote – the only legitimate reason a candidate, or the brother of a mayoral candidate, would have for hanging out at a polling station.

Everything else would contravene city rules and could be considered an attempt “to directly or indirectly influence how a person votes.”

That quote comes directly from Section 48(1) of the Municipal Elections Act, which was cited to Ford by city clerk Ulli Watkiss over the weekend after he had to be removed by polling officials from the first two stations. Later the same day, he did it for a third time.

The National Post reports that Ford was spotting at a polling station in Ward 17 that day and was again asked to leave.

This isn't the first time the Fords have walked that line:

• In 2012, Rob Ford was forced to apologize after using his city hall phone number as a “campaign hotline,” when he asked like-minded listeners to his radio program to contact him so he could run a slate of candidates against left-leaning councillors.

• In June, Ford apologized again for running a robocall campaign against Paul Ainslie which inaccurately claimed the councillor had voted against Ford’s subway plan without input from his constituents.

• An audit released last year found that Rob Ford’s 2010 campaign had exceeded the legal spending limit by some $40,000, including taking an inappropriate loan from a company called Doug Ford Holdings.

• Some portions of Rob Ford’s first 2014 election commercial were shot inside his office at city hall – where campaigning cannot legally take place. It resulted in a complaint to the city’s integrity commissioner.

• A Freedom of Information request by former mayoral candidate David Soknacki corroborated accusations that Rob Ford ran his now-abandoned 2014 mayoral campaign out of the mayor’s office, using city resources and staff members for private use.

• Rob Ford’s history of papering cars and constituents with “Rob Ford Mayor” fridge magnets considered unofficial campaigning even before the campaign officially began.

• The Ford family’s frequent “Ford Fest" barbecues has always walked a thin line between campaigning and standard self-promotion, but Rob Ford was warned not to overstep himself when he held his part of city grounds earlier in the campaign.

• And last December, Doug Ford was accused of buying votes when he went to a public housing building and handed out a stack of $20 bills. At the time he said he had no intention of running for re-election, and that he could do whatever he wanted with his money.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dai...sit-to-polling-station-more-of-200824115.html

It will all be over soon, and maybe the Fords will be nothing more than a page in Toronto's history book.

 

[Keeland]

Stop the presses!

Who’da thunk it?

John Tory's neighbours are wealthy, but mostly rent. Olivia Chow's are young, walk to work and make around $50,000.

The neighbourhoods mayoral candidates live in and who their neighbours are affects who votes for them, their policies and outlooks to varying degrees, say political experts.

Thank the gods for The Toronto Star and political experts!

 

[gsdx]

Well, John Tory is the new mayor of Toronto, with 40% of the vote. Doug Ford came in at 34%. Olivia Chow received 23%. Meanwhile, Rob Ford was re-elected in Ward 2 with 59% of the votes. He will be returning to City Hall, but, thankfully, not as mayor.

 

[bankside]

There is something wrong with 59% of the people in Ward 2.

 

[frankfrank]

Well, John Tory is the new mayor of Toronto, with 40% of the vote. Doug Ford came in at 34%. Olivia Chow received 23%. Meanwhile, Rob Ford was re-elected in Ward 2 with 59% of the votes. He will be returning to City Hall, but, thankfully, not as mayor.

Ummm...is he a Tory?

 

[gsdx]

^ Yes, he is.

And Rob Ford announced last night that he can't be counted out for the mayoral election in 2018. He plans to run again and win. Not sure what Doug's plans are.

 

[Keeland]

Ummm...is he a Tory?

John Tory has been described as a Red Tory, keeping in mind that in Canada, unlike in the States, red is Liberal and blue is Conservative.

The adjective "red" refers to the left-leaning nature of Red Toryism, since socialist parties have traditionally used the colour red. In Canada today, however, red is commonly associated with the centrist Liberal Party. The term reflects the broad ideological range traditionally found within conservatism in Canada.

When the extreme-right Alberta Reform Party took over the federal Progressive Conservative Party, it purged the Red Tory progressives, though some quit in disgust, and it dropped the Progressive in its name. It bleeds knee-jerk blue.

 

[gsdx]

This would be terrifying if it wasn't so funny!

Ford Nation erupted into a chorus of defeaning cheers when the CP24 live feed at the Woodbine Banquet Hall officially announced Rob Ford had been elected city councillor in Ward 2. The euphoria was replaced with agonizing screams moments later, as John Tory was officially declared mayor over second-place Doug Ford.

Tears streamed down the faces of more than a handful of Ford supporters, while many were asking "how this could happen." These were only the reserved supporters. Others drew large crowds as they began ranting about election fraud and corruption. The members of Ford Nation all had one thing in common: They predicted doomsday for Toronto with Tory as mayor.

Penny Morrison, a volunteer on the Ford campaigns since 2010, was the most emotional supporter. Morrison's tears and makeup were rolling down the side of her cheeks when she said she and her mother would lose their house because Tory's SmartTrack transit plan would "tax us out."

"I'm horrified. It's like ISIS coming to Toronto," Morrison told Yahoo Canada News about Tory's win.

Across the hall, a woman was forced to leave the event after going on a tangent about Ford supporters being turned away at polls and voter cards not being delivered to everyone in her community. Another Ford supporter took the focus off of her and gathered his own crowd when he began incoherently preaching about corruption. He left his onlookers with one message.

"All of you will pay the price for this!"

The only character missing was the person holding a "the end is nigh" sign.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ford-nati...for-toronto-after-tory-victory-132358457.html

 

[Keeland]

This would be terrifying if it wasn't so funny!

That's hilarious!