Ford heckler becoming a Torontonian hero
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Compared to a mayor who smokes crack, offers his wife up for random bangs and thinks "Chronical" is a word?
Hey guys....quit b*tching....you now have at least three things putting Toronto on the world map..
A crack smoking mayor...
A shirtless mouthy jogging teacher...
and the pride parade ...:lol:
But only one has made le late night comedy shows............so far
A crack smoking mayor...
A shirtless mouthy jogging teacher...
and the pride parade ...:lol:
But only one has made le late night comedy shows............so far
So, basically, some shirtless jogger is offended about a mayor showing up for Canada day because the mayor has gotten smarter and is now refusing to open his mouth( his biggest enemy) in front of the media.
What bubble did this guy burst out of?
What bubble did this guy burst out of?
Rob Ford to be crucified.
'It is a full out jihad against us right now': Doug Ford
TORONTO - Councillor Doug Ford claims there is a “jihad” against him and his brother Mayor Rob Ford.
Ford’s comments came in the wake of another integrity commissioner complaint filed against him, this time from the father of an autistic child over comments the councillor made about the Griffin Centre residential group home in his ward.
Ford was quoted at a community meeting in May addressing neighbourhood concerns about the group home: “My heart goes out to kids with autism. But no one told me they’d be leaving the house.”
Ford said the neighbourhood has experienced screaming late at night and visits from cops “every other day.”
Tommy Lenathen — a city employee, member of CUPE Local 416 and former president of the pre-amalgamation CUPE Local 43 — filed a complaint with integrity commissioner Janet Leiper last month on comments Ford made back in May after attending a community meeting about the house.
“This has got nothing to do with the union. This has got nothing to do with that at all. This is the dad of autistic kid against Doug Ford who doesn’t have any autistic children,” Lenathen told reporters at City Hall on Thursday.
Lenathen wants Ford to provide an immediate public apology to the Griffin Centre, enter a sensitivity training program and resign his council seat.
“He can go to hell, I don’t even care,” Ford told the Toronto Sun on Thursday when asked about the integrity complaint. “I’m working with the Griffin Centre, I’m working with my community the way I should.”
Ford — who is the mayor’s campaign manager — argued that the integrity complaints and ongoing freedom of information requests focused on himself and his brother were “politically motivated.”
“This is not normal in democracy,” Ford said. “They are going after us for (Doug Ford) Park - they are pulling out (freedom of information requests) … I’m thinking you’ve got to be kidding me.
“It is a full out jihad against us right now.”
Lenathen handed out copies of his complaint and Leiper’s response to reporters at City Hall as he tried to get a response directly from Ford.
He stressed autistic children aren’t problems for neighbourhoods.
“They don’t go and pee in the park like (Ford’s) brother,” Lenathen said.
'It is a full out jihad against us': Doug Ford | Welland Tribune
'It is a full out jihad against us right now': Doug Ford
TORONTO - Councillor Doug Ford claims there is a “jihad” against him and his brother Mayor Rob Ford.
Ford’s comments came in the wake of another integrity commissioner complaint filed against him, this time from the father of an autistic child over comments the councillor made about the Griffin Centre residential group home in his ward.
Ford was quoted at a community meeting in May addressing neighbourhood concerns about the group home: “My heart goes out to kids with autism. But no one told me they’d be leaving the house.”
Ford said the neighbourhood has experienced screaming late at night and visits from cops “every other day.”
Tommy Lenathen — a city employee, member of CUPE Local 416 and former president of the pre-amalgamation CUPE Local 43 — filed a complaint with integrity commissioner Janet Leiper last month on comments Ford made back in May after attending a community meeting about the house.
“This has got nothing to do with the union. This has got nothing to do with that at all. This is the dad of autistic kid against Doug Ford who doesn’t have any autistic children,” Lenathen told reporters at City Hall on Thursday.
Lenathen wants Ford to provide an immediate public apology to the Griffin Centre, enter a sensitivity training program and resign his council seat.
“He can go to hell, I don’t even care,” Ford told the Toronto Sun on Thursday when asked about the integrity complaint. “I’m working with the Griffin Centre, I’m working with my community the way I should.”
Ford — who is the mayor’s campaign manager — argued that the integrity complaints and ongoing freedom of information requests focused on himself and his brother were “politically motivated.”
“This is not normal in democracy,” Ford said. “They are going after us for (Doug Ford) Park - they are pulling out (freedom of information requests) … I’m thinking you’ve got to be kidding me.
“It is a full out jihad against us right now.”
Lenathen handed out copies of his complaint and Leiper’s response to reporters at City Hall as he tried to get a response directly from Ford.
He stressed autistic children aren’t problems for neighbourhoods.
“They don’t go and pee in the park like (Ford’s) brother,” Lenathen said.
'It is a full out jihad against us': Doug Ford | Welland Tribune
I guess as soon as he got out of rehab, we should have known the idiots would come out in droves. Some people are just plain ignorant. When people are being treated for heart disease or cancer they can have the expectation of privacy re their medical condition. It would be a good thing if people being treated for addictions and mental illness would be give the same consideration. Olivia Chow (hopefully) may have done more damage to herself than Ford through all this. Would any other mental patient be subjected to the questions Rob Ford has? I doubt it very much. I guess they walk among us.
guys like you scowling at me night and day would drive me - yes me - to drink, as well.
Drown your sorrows. It'll still be there tomorrow. People like me get tired of being conned - and Fords have made careers of it. The difference being - we really don't give a shyte if anyone else doesn't like it.
Appearances matter most to they with skeletons in their closets
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or maybe a lot of people are sick to death of him and want him to vanish...(at least for a while)
the fact he even did the whole come back thing right out of rehab is pathetic
he may feel all healed and happy but the people of Toronto need some time which speaks once again to everything being all about him and knowing zero about human nature...there's a shock eh?
a jihad...buffoons
which is why guys like you should never hold public office...if you can't separate yourself then you are not capable of the position
Shirtless protesters gather for anti-Rob Ford rally
ANGELA HENNESY, Toronto Sun
First posted: Friday, July 04, 2014 09:53 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, July 04, 2014 11:37 AM EDT
TORONTO - Shirtless protesters gathered outside Newstalk 1010's downtown studios shortly after 9 a.m. Friday for an anti-Rob Ford rally.
The movement was inspired by Toronto teacher Joe Killoran, aka "The Shirtless Jogger."
The Mayor is set to do an interview at the station at 10 a.m.
Shirtless protesters gather for anti-Rob Ford rally | Toronto & GTA | News | Tor
Shirtless protest against Mayor Ford outside Toronto radio station
July 4, 2014
A shirtless protest against Mayor Rob Ford took place outside Newstalk 1010 on Friday as the mayor was set to be interviewed by radio host Jerry Agar. Protester Norm Di Pasquale explained why he is speaking out against Ford.
Shirtless protest against Mayor Ford outside Toronto radio station | CityNews
ANGELA HENNESY, Toronto Sun
First posted: Friday, July 04, 2014 09:53 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, July 04, 2014 11:37 AM EDT
TORONTO - Shirtless protesters gathered outside Newstalk 1010's downtown studios shortly after 9 a.m. Friday for an anti-Rob Ford rally.
The movement was inspired by Toronto teacher Joe Killoran, aka "The Shirtless Jogger."
The Mayor is set to do an interview at the station at 10 a.m.
Shirtless protesters gather for anti-Rob Ford rally | Toronto & GTA | News | Tor
Shirtless protest against Mayor Ford outside Toronto radio station
July 4, 2014
A shirtless protest against Mayor Rob Ford took place outside Newstalk 1010 on Friday as the mayor was set to be interviewed by radio host Jerry Agar. Protester Norm Di Pasquale explained why he is speaking out against Ford.
Shirtless protest against Mayor Ford outside Toronto radio station | CityNews
I got to agree to disagree here somewhat, Sal. Sometimes when people are in a crisis situation or struggling with a problem, the best thing they can do is get back to a normal routine and keep as busy as possible. It helps to keep their mind off their problems, while at the same time doing something constructive. A feeling of accomplishment is often good therapy.
Okay.
Well at least we have some good news in all of this.
Rob Ford’s campaign sputters as majority of Torontonians not buying post-rehab apologies: poll
Toronto voters aren’t picking up what a post-rehab Rob Ford is putting down, as a new poll suggests the majority of citizens in Hogtown who watched the mayor’s latest comeback speech didn’t accept his apologies for his drugs-and-alcohol fuelled behaviour.
More than six-out-of-ten of the 1182 Torontonians polled by Forum Research watched some of Ford’s 17-minute Monday speech — part apology for his behaviour, part campaign stump speech — and 60% of speech watchers weren’t satisfied with his various apologies.
While a third of respondents (34%) said they were satisfied with the mayor’s speech, the majority of respondents believe Ford won’t remain clean and sober through the rest of the campaign (57%) and want him to resign (62%).
Ford’s ceiling to increase voter appeal appears to leave little room from his current standing, giving the mayor a razor-thin roadmap to re-election.
“One would expect to see a ‘dead cat bounce’ in his ratings created by the mayor’s return, but that has not been the case. On the other hand, we may be seeing the beginning of Ford fatigue, in which the constant controversy is just being tuned out by most Toronto voters,” said Forum Research president, Lorne Bozinoff, in a statement.
In his Monday speech, Ford admitted he was an alcoholic and “ashamed and humiliated” by his actions and words, which included recordings of racist, homophobic and sexist remarks. He specifically apologized to fellow mayoral candidate Karen Stintz but in two subsequent one-on-one television interviews Wednesday he refused to apologize directly to the LGBT community or Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair for insults directed at them.
The mayor then promptly cancelled a number of one-on-one interviews despite repeated promises by his campaign manager and brother, Councillor Doug Ford, that “each and every” media outlet would get one.
However, the mayor gave the Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington (virtually the only journalist Ford speaks with regularly) an interview Thursday night. In that interview, Ford admitted the obvious about why he rarely showed up to work on time over the past year — he was hungover.
“I am not hungover anymore in the mornings,” Ford told the SunThursday. “I can get to the gym at 7 a.m. and then get into work early.”
While Ford’s polling numbers for Forum slightly improved while he was in rehab for two months and away from the city, the latest poll suggests his return didn’t prompt a second bounce.
In the July 2 poll, Olivia Chow continues to lead in a five-way race with 36% support, John Tory comes in second at 27% and Ford trails closely at 26%. In the previous June 23rd Forum poll, Ford was in second with 27% support.
Stintz’s campaign continues to sputter as she garnered 3% support for the second straight poll and David Soknacki fell two percentage points, down to 4%.
Ford’s approval rating continues to easily be the worst among the five major candidates for mayor, as only 31% of respondents approve of him. Tory leads with 63% approval, followed closely by Chow at 57%.
Rob Ford’s campaign sputters as majority of Torontonians not buying post-rehab apologies: poll
Well at least we have some good news in all of this.
Rob Ford’s campaign sputters as majority of Torontonians not buying post-rehab apologies: poll
Toronto voters aren’t picking up what a post-rehab Rob Ford is putting down, as a new poll suggests the majority of citizens in Hogtown who watched the mayor’s latest comeback speech didn’t accept his apologies for his drugs-and-alcohol fuelled behaviour.
More than six-out-of-ten of the 1182 Torontonians polled by Forum Research watched some of Ford’s 17-minute Monday speech — part apology for his behaviour, part campaign stump speech — and 60% of speech watchers weren’t satisfied with his various apologies.
While a third of respondents (34%) said they were satisfied with the mayor’s speech, the majority of respondents believe Ford won’t remain clean and sober through the rest of the campaign (57%) and want him to resign (62%).
Ford’s ceiling to increase voter appeal appears to leave little room from his current standing, giving the mayor a razor-thin roadmap to re-election.
“One would expect to see a ‘dead cat bounce’ in his ratings created by the mayor’s return, but that has not been the case. On the other hand, we may be seeing the beginning of Ford fatigue, in which the constant controversy is just being tuned out by most Toronto voters,” said Forum Research president, Lorne Bozinoff, in a statement.
In his Monday speech, Ford admitted he was an alcoholic and “ashamed and humiliated” by his actions and words, which included recordings of racist, homophobic and sexist remarks. He specifically apologized to fellow mayoral candidate Karen Stintz but in two subsequent one-on-one television interviews Wednesday he refused to apologize directly to the LGBT community or Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair for insults directed at them.
The mayor then promptly cancelled a number of one-on-one interviews despite repeated promises by his campaign manager and brother, Councillor Doug Ford, that “each and every” media outlet would get one.
However, the mayor gave the Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington (virtually the only journalist Ford speaks with regularly) an interview Thursday night. In that interview, Ford admitted the obvious about why he rarely showed up to work on time over the past year — he was hungover.
“I am not hungover anymore in the mornings,” Ford told the SunThursday. “I can get to the gym at 7 a.m. and then get into work early.”
While Ford’s polling numbers for Forum slightly improved while he was in rehab for two months and away from the city, the latest poll suggests his return didn’t prompt a second bounce.
In the July 2 poll, Olivia Chow continues to lead in a five-way race with 36% support, John Tory comes in second at 27% and Ford trails closely at 26%. In the previous June 23rd Forum poll, Ford was in second with 27% support.
Stintz’s campaign continues to sputter as she garnered 3% support for the second straight poll and David Soknacki fell two percentage points, down to 4%.
Ford’s approval rating continues to easily be the worst among the five major candidates for mayor, as only 31% of respondents approve of him. Tory leads with 63% approval, followed closely by Chow at 57%.
Rob Ford’s campaign sputters as majority of Torontonians not buying post-rehab apologies: poll