He's back! Down from size 52 to 44, a slimmer Rob Ford is about to ‘turn the race upside down'
With a straight face and a calm voice, Toronto Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly turned from a city hall lectern he has used many times while trying to steady a tumultuous term of office and said, “I expect it to be business as usual.”
The venerable politician was talking about the impending return of the chief magistrate, Rob Ford, an event that has drawn decidedly more colourful analogies from other corners.
“Circus” is a popular one. “Cannonball” is another. “Rob Ford is the oxygen in the fire and if he’s not around there isn’t the excitement that gets a lot of media attention,” said John Filion, a councillor for the north-end ward of Willowdale.
On Monday, the infamous Mayor will re-emerge, back from a two-month stint at a rehabilitation clinic in Ontario’s cottage country, and into what will surely be a media feeding frenzy. Rivals for the mayor’s job, which is up for grabs in October’s municipal elections, are playing it cool, promising to stick to their playbook and the policies they are championing. But observers say Rob Ford has the power to alter the landscape of a largely sleepy campaign.
be prepared
Rob Ford’s return: Slimmer, rehabbed mayor about to ‘turn the race upside down,’ his campaign vows | National Post
With a straight face and a calm voice, Toronto Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly turned from a city hall lectern he has used many times while trying to steady a tumultuous term of office and said, “I expect it to be business as usual.”
The venerable politician was talking about the impending return of the chief magistrate, Rob Ford, an event that has drawn decidedly more colourful analogies from other corners.
“Circus” is a popular one. “Cannonball” is another. “Rob Ford is the oxygen in the fire and if he’s not around there isn’t the excitement that gets a lot of media attention,” said John Filion, a councillor for the north-end ward of Willowdale.
On Monday, the infamous Mayor will re-emerge, back from a two-month stint at a rehabilitation clinic in Ontario’s cottage country, and into what will surely be a media feeding frenzy. Rivals for the mayor’s job, which is up for grabs in October’s municipal elections, are playing it cool, promising to stick to their playbook and the policies they are championing. But observers say Rob Ford has the power to alter the landscape of a largely sleepy campaign.
be prepared
Rob Ford’s return: Slimmer, rehabbed mayor about to ‘turn the race upside down,’ his campaign vows | National Post
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