It seems there was more to hide - Mayor Ford Toronto

[retriever]

Woops. A second video.

 

[badbadboy]

Mayor Ford please do not resign!

Jon Stewart has gotten some very good material from your comments and videos :nod:

Besides, you make our Mayor Moonbeam look like a rocket scientist with your behaviour.

 

[VanessaofBC]

That video is disturbing on so many levels.

edit:

 

[Tugela]

Give the guy a break, he is just Canada's Marrion Barry.

At least he makes for good entertainment!!

 

[VanessaofBC]

Give the guy a break, he is just Canada's Marrion Barry.

At least he makes for good entertainment!!

Cannot be any worse than that Detroit mayor...Kwame Kilpatrick.

Wiki that shit...He was a crazy ass MoFo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick

Top 3 worst mayors of all time!!!

 

[Miss*Bijou]

I cannot even believe people seem to actually think that 'forgiving' him and just 'moving passed' this whole unpleasant incident is a reasonable outcome that should be considered. So he's apologizing? Big deal. He's been lying for months about it and the only reason he's apologizing is because the video was found. It doesn't mean anything. This guy should have been canned a loooong time ago, nevermind when a video of him smoking crack is found. Unreal.

Seriously. How low is the standard set for people in positions of power and in politics? If a school principal or the head of a university or hospital was known to suffer from substance abuse (alcohol for sure, possibly also crack and who knows what else), which negatively affected his ability to perform and reflected negatively on their employer, possibly damage people's confidence in the entire organization.. If they'd showed amazingly poor judgement and only done a tiny fraction of the crap he's pulled, they would have been fired and barred....but he gets elected?! Wtf!

I mean, it is just mind blowing. This guy is a buffoon. Have you heard this one? (starts around 0:55)


<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YanXpCDqKCA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>



What a LOSER. And not a particularly intelligent one. *facepalm*

Butt-groping, bachelorette parties and rape threats: Rob Ford’s non-crack scandals!
Yes, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's a crack-smoking, vicious, xenophobic, Tea Party hack. But it actually gets even worse


Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s admission yesterday that he smoked crack “in one of [his] drunken stupors” brings a long-awaited end to the “did he or didn’t he” saga. But it hasn’t yet ended his career as mayor, much to the embarrassment and despair of many Torontonians. Nor will this admission, necessarily.

On the morning prior to his announcement, polls showed that news of the crack-smoking video’s authenticity caused a 5 percent uptick in Ford’s approval. Speaking to the CBC, University of Toronto politics professor Nelson Wiseman said, “I think he could easily get reelected,” noting that Ford’s base of voters were most concerned with the mayor’s pledge to “stop the gravy-train” at Toronto’s City Hall.

Ford has staked his image on the illusion that he’s some run-of-the-mill hoser, just like you and me (provided that we’re both white guys who like football and hate the idea that City Hall is burning through our precious tax dollars). In doing so, he’s made himself Canada’s leading exemplar of the Tea Party model of identity politics; he’s a rich white guy who portrays himself as the angry little guy. In doing so he leverages phony right-wing populism to win working-class votes.

As various pundits have noticed, Ford has built his career attacking both those he perceives as the coddled poor and the spoiled elite in city government. This strategy has worked in his favor with Toronto’s people who feel their taxes are being poorly spent. But in office Ford has been hit with scandal after scandal related to the improper use of public funds. What Ford rarely says is that his father was a millionaire businessman who sat in the Ontario legislature between 1995 and 1999 as part of the province’s Progressive Conservative Party, during a period of privatization, tax cuts and brutal cuts to social programs.

Ford has succeeded in Toronto’s working-class neighborhoods by campaigning on issues that appeal to their needs (most notably his plan to extend the city’s subway to the far-flung suburbs). And the rest of Ford Nation, as Ford calls his supporters, is united in the almost fundamentalist belief that he will save them tax money.

Part of Ford’s costume as an average guy is a readiness to admit that he likes to party — a cheery euphemism for his substance abuse problems. He likes to party enough that he showed up this summer at Toronto street festival Taste of the Danforth “hammered” – his word. At the festival he was caught on video shouting, “Let’s party” and apparently “Do you want some blow? I can get you some blow.” (It has also been suggested that he was offering cologne.)This was far from the first incident of Ford appearing in public intoxicated. Beginning with his first DUI in 1999, a year before his election to Toronto City Council, he has been “hammered” or more in plenty of places.

In 2007, he was ejected from a Toronto Maple Leafs game for drunkenly yelling at a fan who asked him to be quiet, “Who the fuck do you think you are? Are you a fucking teacher? Do you want your little wife to go over to Iran and get raped and shot?” On St. Patrick’s Day last year, he was seen stumbling down the street “inebriated and sweaty but in a jovial way,” before being ejected from a private party later that night for, according to the Toronto Star, “fighting and carrying on ‘like an idiot,’ [… and] ‘storming the dance floor.’”

He’s been photographed seemingly drunk with a bachelorette party, and spotted at Wal-Mart late at night wearing pajama pants and a hoodie. In February, he arrived late to the ball honoring Canadian soldiers, where he was described as “rambling” and “incoherent” — he was once again asked to leave. At a party for the Canadian Jewish Political Action Committee in March, former mayoral rival Sarah Thomson alleged that he groped her buttocks while the two posed for a picture together and told her, she “should have been [on his recent vacation] in Florida with him because his wife wasn’t there”; she said at the time that his behavior was consistent with someone on cocaine.

Much of this has been dismissed by his supporters as the behavior of a guy who likes to have a few drinks. It says nothing of the charges of assault and uttering death threats laid against him by his wife, Renata, in 2008 (the charges were dropped), or the call she made to police on Christmas Eve of 2011 following a domestic dispute or the 911 call his mother-in-law made the next day claiming that Ford was drunk and attempting to take his children to Florida against Renata’s wishes (no charges were laid; Doug Ford, the mayor’s brother, later claimed it was a “misunderstanding” that was “blown out of proportion”).

Ford is also a big football fan, enough of one that he invited his high-school football coach David Price to join his team at City Hall, inventing an estimated $130,000 per year position in his office (“director of operations and logistics”) that he would not describe to the media — Price later repaid Ford by making a series of supportive calls to Ford’s radio show claiming to be different people. Though he was dismissed as head coach of Etobicoke’s Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School’s football team following the initial rush of crack accusations in May, Ford had by that time already hired a former drug enforcer with a history of violent crimes to coach the team.

Perhaps most famously, Ford used official City Council letterhead to solicit donations to his football charity from lobbyists registered with the city. Despite having been warned by the speaker that he was in a potential conflict of interest, he then voted against a city council motion to force him to pay back the money he received. In the court case that followed, Ford claimed he did not understand the meaning of “conflict of interest,” maintaining that he had never read the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act or the City of Toronto councillor orientation handbook, which described potential conflict-of-interest situations, and had never attended the City Council training sessions in which conflicts of interest were discussed.

But Ford’s antics, spectacular though they are, tend to distract from his fundamental political orientation, which has always been defined by vicious, xenophobic conservatism bred by entitlement. He strongly opposes immigration to Toronto (a city of more than 49 percent visible minorities): In 2003 he suggested the city declare itself a “refugee-free zone,” was quoted in 2008 as saying “Those Oriental people work like dogs. […] I’m telling you, the Oriental people, they’re slowly taking over,” and in 2010 argued for an immigration cap. He successfully fought a 2002 attempt to widen the city’s network of homeless shelters outside of downtown, saying, “This is an insult to my constituents to even think about having a homeless shelter in their ward. And you want me to have a public meeting to discuss this? Why don’t we have a public lynching?”

He has fought a long campaign against Toronto cyclists, whom he has described as “a pain in the ass,” arguing that cyclists are to blame whenever one of them gets killed, and spending $300,000 to remove bicycle lanes from one city thoroughfare. Though he has achieved suburban support for his subway plan, it comes at the expense of plans for a light rail system that the city of Toronto had already finalized. Canceling the plan cost the city $65 million in penalties.

On gay and lesbian issues Ford has been particularly consistent, from his 2001 and 2005 attacks on government grants for causes benefiting gay and transgender people to his 2006 argument against an AIDS prevention program, which culminated in his saying, “If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn’t get AIDS probably. That’s the bottom line […] How are women getting it? Maybe they are sleeping with bisexual men.” Not surprisingly, every year since his election, Ford has avoided participating in Toronto’s Gay Pride parade (the first mayor of the amalgamated Toronto to miss the event), and has even gone so far as to skip the ceremony for the raising of a Gay Pride flag immediately outside of his office.

But the city is, as Ford has said, “open for business,” meaning that lobbying has exploded at City Hall according to the Toronto Star, tripling between 2010 and 2012 — alongside allegations of misconduct, which also tripled. Contact between lobbyists and Toronto politicians alsoincreased by a factor of 10 following Ford’s election.

But it’s the crack smoking that brings Ford’s politics full-circle. Conservative that he is, in 2005 he attacked a Toronto Public Health report recommending such harm-reduction approaches as safer-use crack kits to prevent the spread of illness among drug addicts, calling the efforts “enabling” and saying that only “tough love” can help drug addiction.

Naturally, Ford critics will fall upon these comments as evidence of his hypocrisy and corruption, but it’s not Ford’s substance-abuse problems that highlight his inability to govern properly. Rather, from the beginning of his time in office as a city councillor, he has ruled with a combination of ignorance and self-interest, dismissing numerous scandals and allegations of corruption out of hand, attempting always to draw the public’s attention back to the supposed “gravy train.” For some reason, it still seems to be working for members of Ford Nation. Following his admission yesterday, 60 percent of Torontonians polled said they felt he should resign, but 30 percent of Toronto residents remained steadfast in their support for him. Their position might be summed up in the words of one suburban shopper interviewed by the CBC at a strip mall in Ford’s home neighborhood of Etobicoke, “If he smokes and saves me money, I’ll vote for him, even if he’s a bum.”


(Lots of links in the original article: http://www.salon.com/2013/11/07/but...nd_rape_threats_rob_fords_non_crack_scandals/ )

SIGH.

 

[Miss*Bijou]

.
.​

I just read the list and it's truly unbelievable that this guy is mayor....wow.



<div style="max-width: 600px;">
<a href="http://jeromiewilliams.com/2013/11/03/updated-list-113-things-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-has-done-besides-smoking-crack-in-a-video/">
<img src="http://www.curate.us/i/1okT.png" width="100%" alt="Clipped from http://jeromiewilliams.com/2013/11/03/updated-list-113-things-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-has-done-besides-smoking-crack-in-a-video/">
</a>



Crazy shit.

http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=194082

 

[VanessaofBC]

I cannot even believe people seem to actually think that 'forgiving' him and just 'moving passed' this whole unpleasant incident is a reasonable outcome that should be considered. So he's apologizing? Big deal. He's been lying for months about it and the only reason he's apologizing is because the video was found. It doesn't mean anything. This guy should have been canned a loooong time ago, nevermind when a video of him smoking crack is found. Unreal.

Seriously. How low is the standard set for people in positions of power and in politics? If a school principal or the head of a university or hospital was known to suffer from substance abuse (alcohol for sure, possibly also crack and who knows what else), which negatively affected his ability to perform and reflected negatively on their employer, possibly damage people's confidence in the entire organization.. If they'd showed amazingly poor judgement and only done a tiny fraction of the crap he's pulled, they would have been fired and barred....but he gets elected?! Wtf!

I mean, it is just mind blowing. This guy is a buffoon. Have you heard this one? (starts around 0:55)

What a LOSER. And not a particularly intelligent one. *facepalm*

SIGH.

Almost sounds like a typical politician.

 

[OldMagpye]

Does he show up at city haul drunk or high? So he's a weekend drunk, a midnight toker a dabbler in drugs. And he lies about it. How many folks here want their activities known. How many folks here are living a lie? If he's clean and sober at work, doing his job then his recreational activities are his own. Though he's a train wreck waiting to happen.

 

[VanessaofBC]

Does he show up at city haul drunk or high? So he's a weekend drunk, a midnight toker a dabbler in drugs. And he lies about it. How many folks here want their activities known. How many folks here are living a lie? If he's clean and sober at work, doing his job then his recreational activities are his own. Though he's a train wreck waiting to happen.

I was wAiting for someone to say that.

I just finished reading an article in the Metro stating that Rob Ford's brother city councillor Doug Ford is asking for the chief of the police to resign saying it's a 'witchhunt'

 

[vancity_cowboy]

sheesh, if he got rid of cycling lanes, maybe i'll have to reassess my thoughts on him ound:

 

[sdw]

US loves this, its all over EVERYTHING. People texted me "Toronto mayor lol" the day it happened. That being said, at least he gets shit done and he does what every politician should do when making mistakes: Be like yep I did it and TRY to move on. He just...made a lot hah.

The reason it's such a story is that he denied it for months. First denied the video could exist, then when the Toronto Police announced that they had the video, denied that he smoked crack. The only reason for the admission is that it's impossible to argue with what is on the video. Even his family have had enough of the Rob Ford show.

With his personal life choices taking up so much of his time, I doubt that Rob Ford is responsible for "gets shit done". It would appear that he had competent staff, however many of them have had enough of the Rob Ford show and are leaving.

 

[sdw]

It seems everyone is just plying on .. it's not like it hasn't been other stories about peoples mistakes before.

It's not often that you get someone with power and under as much scrutiny and he still has so little control over his "needs" that he doesn't stop or at least be discreet. Rob Ford had staff resigning their positions because they knew they were working in a gong show. http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/23/rob-ford-told-to-go-to-rehab
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/1...te-was-in-his-office-mayor-was-driving-drunk/

 

[VanessaofBC]

I was shocked when Ford got elected and always thought "Fat Cat" whenever I saw a picture of him.

urban dictionary: fat cat
Smug, selfish and greedy the businessman/woman who exploits their position for their own personal gain at the cost of the businesses or community

 

[Tugela]

I was shocked when Ford got elected and always thought "Fat Cat" whenever I saw a picture of him.

urban dictionary: fat cat
Smug, selfish and greedy the businessman/woman who exploits their position for their own personal gain at the cost of the businesses or community

I thought it was a skit from Saturday Night Live

 

[kauffman]

US loves this, its all over EVERYTHING. People texted me "Toronto mayor lol" the day it happened. That being said, at least he gets shit done and he does what every politician should do when making mistakes: Be like yep I did it and TRY to move on. He just...made a lot hah.

This reminds me of the Monica Lewinsky scandal... the day the news broke the US was busy bombing the hell out of Nigeria and everyone was so distracted by the "shocking" scandal, nobody noticed....hmmm

 

[kauffman]

It seems everyone is just plying on .. it's not like it hasn't been other stories about peoples mistakes before.

And how many of you would admit to cheating on your wives unless there was solid proof. How many would admit to paying for sex? How about when you are asked how many times you have paid for sexual services by a girlfriend or friend? There are lots of things people don't admit to because the world is always hungry for someone to jump on and point their finger at so that the spotlight is taken off themselves. We all have secrets and we've all made mistakes. Granted, a person in politics is supposed to be a "role model" but politicians are not known for their integrity. THey are chosen generally for their clean historyies so that the public is not overly distracted by their humanness when making decisions about politics. But they ARE human. In public office we prefer to have someone representing an ideal so Mr Ford now has turned into a different kind of political pawn. Now he is a distraction.

 

[kamrussel10]

I agree we do not elect politicians on the basis who we feel will make the best "role models". We elect them on their merits - who we feel can do the best job for that particular position. We do however expect a certain standard of morals and ethics that come with the job. We expect a level of integrity from an elected official that we have given full responsibility to represent its citizens in the best possible way. Anyone that has every tried a drug or drugs knows that it is never just an isolated one time occurrence. It affects us and impacts our lives in so many way. And anyone that doesn't believe that drugs have a negative effect on our ability to the best job we can in whatever line of work we are in is simply lying to themselves or is in denial. Rob Ford should do the right thing and step aside. He is an arrogant power hungry person who has made this all about himself. He is making a total fool and a mockery of himself by going on this media blitz. I think Rob Ford should resign and get himself the necessary help he needs and spare not only himself but the entire nation of the embarrassment he has brought on.

 

[cherise]

politicians on crack is not that uncommon ...years ago NDP city councillor of surrey,was caught on video smoking crack with his SW girlfriend in the parking lot of the hollywood hotel on king george. (he was acting mayor at the time) he was reeelected recently and died of a heart attack last month i believe.

 

[rickoshadows]

The real tragedy here is that Mayor Ford still has a surprising amount of support. Why are not the other members of Toronto council not looking in the mirror to figure out why a significant percentage of people would rather have Rob Ford than one of them?