Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in 'crack cocaine' video scandal
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Media piling-on is building sympathy for Rob Ford
"I don't like Ford, but he was elected and this is a ridiculous distraction. They need to let him do his job."
That was something a very liberal ex-girlfriend said to me on the phone last night about the media histrionics over Rob and Doug Ford's alleged, unsubstantiated misdeeds. And it's something that in one form or another, I'm hearing more and more from people in Toronto.
Eye on a Crazy Planet: Media piling-on is building sympathy for Rob Ford
nothing sells newspapers better than controversy
"I don't like Ford, but he was elected and this is a ridiculous distraction. They need to let him do his job."
That was something a very liberal ex-girlfriend said to me on the phone last night about the media histrionics over Rob and Doug Ford's alleged, unsubstantiated misdeeds. And it's something that in one form or another, I'm hearing more and more from people in Toronto.
Eye on a Crazy Planet: Media piling-on is building sympathy for Rob Ford
nothing sells newspapers better than controversy
The liberal elite’s gift to Rob Ford - The Globe and Mail
No evidence- all innuendo - no smoking gun- pun intended.
So until there is proof??? He will still face a barrage of questions, rumor generated questions, articles full of innuendo - So I prefer to wait.
Now Ford does stick his foot in his mouth way to often-Both he and his brother do that far to often. But that is up to the voters to decide at the next election.
No evidence- all innuendo - no smoking gun- pun intended.
So until there is proof??? He will still face a barrage of questions, rumor generated questions, articles full of innuendo - So I prefer to wait.
Now Ford does stick his foot in his mouth way to often-Both he and his brother do that far to often. But that is up to the voters to decide at the next election.
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This must have been tough for the Star to write...
"People who think that Rob Ford’s political career will take a hit following allegations of crack cocaine use are delusional, says the man who ran George Smitherman’s failed mayoral campaign.
“Ford has his problems and they’re serious. But I think it’s a bit strange that the Liberal government can waste billions of dollars and it hardly gets anywhere near the ink that this getting,” said Kouvalis. “Olivia Chow is an MP — and bless her heart — but she’s never gone through a tough campaign before and she has a lot of skeletons in her closest that she’ll have to face.”
And... Mind your own business, Premier
Rob Ford video scandal: Don’t count the mayor out yet, political strategists say | Toronto Star
This must have been tough for the Star to write...
"People who think that Rob Ford’s political career will take a hit following allegations of crack cocaine use are delusional, says the man who ran George Smitherman’s failed mayoral campaign.
“Ford has his problems and they’re serious. But I think it’s a bit strange that the Liberal government can waste billions of dollars and it hardly gets anywhere near the ink that this getting,” said Kouvalis. “Olivia Chow is an MP — and bless her heart — but she’s never gone through a tough campaign before and she has a lot of skeletons in her closest that she’ll have to face.”
And... Mind your own business, Premier
Rob Ford video scandal: Don’t count the mayor out yet, political strategists say | Toronto Star
Gawker reports Rob Ford alleged crack video may be 'gone' - Toronto - CBC News
oops - HHmmm- no video??????
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...012-with-248-million-surplus/article12338434/
Ford’s support shows he is who voters expected him to be - The Globe and Mail
No one in Toronto expected Rob Ford’s mayoralty to be a genteel garden party, especially his core supporters.
They cast their ballots for someone already revealed as a bull in a china shop at best. The drunk-at-the-hockey-game story was out there, as was the marijuana bust, the episode of promising to buy someone Oxycontin, and the “Orientals work like dogs” line.
The bizarre accusations over the last two weeks would demolish a Stephen Harper or a Kathleen Wynne, because their supporters hold very different expectations. But these revelations are a straight-line from the facts voters had about Ford before the election.
In the fall of 2010, pollster Michael Marzolini conducted a focus group for the Smitherman campaign. One woman said “she was overlooking Ford’s personal issues, as long as he didn’t waste her taxes.”
Some Ford voters in effect “priced in” scandal to their Ford vote. So long as he respected taxpayers, they were prepared to accept questionable personal issues.
This isn’t to say the challenges of the past two years haven’t done damage. The current 36 per cent support is well below the 47 per cent of the vote the Mayor received in the election.
But a covenant was made between Ford and his voters that he would respect taxpayers, and they would overlook his other shortcomings. This covenant allows Ford tremendous slack from some of them on everything except attacking spending and lowering taxes.
oops - HHmmm- no video??????
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...012-with-248-million-surplus/article12338434/
Ford’s support shows he is who voters expected him to be - The Globe and Mail
No one in Toronto expected Rob Ford’s mayoralty to be a genteel garden party, especially his core supporters.
They cast their ballots for someone already revealed as a bull in a china shop at best. The drunk-at-the-hockey-game story was out there, as was the marijuana bust, the episode of promising to buy someone Oxycontin, and the “Orientals work like dogs” line.
The bizarre accusations over the last two weeks would demolish a Stephen Harper or a Kathleen Wynne, because their supporters hold very different expectations. But these revelations are a straight-line from the facts voters had about Ford before the election.
In the fall of 2010, pollster Michael Marzolini conducted a focus group for the Smitherman campaign. One woman said “she was overlooking Ford’s personal issues, as long as he didn’t waste her taxes.”
Some Ford voters in effect “priced in” scandal to their Ford vote. So long as he respected taxpayers, they were prepared to accept questionable personal issues.
This isn’t to say the challenges of the past two years haven’t done damage. The current 36 per cent support is well below the 47 per cent of the vote the Mayor received in the election.
But a covenant was made between Ford and his voters that he would respect taxpayers, and they would overlook his other shortcomings. This covenant allows Ford tremendous slack from some of them on everything except attacking spending and lowering taxes.
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Oh, no! The video is gone. I bet the unicorn took it.
Gawker reports Rob Ford alleged crack video may be 'gone' - Toronto - CBC News
Gawker reports Rob Ford alleged crack video may be 'gone' - Toronto - CBC News
Rob Ford quiet on report alleged video may be 'gone' | CTV News
I've heard some reports on radio that he reached out and touched elders in the Somali community who told the drug traffickers to ditch the video.
Rob Ford may have dodged the full impact of this, but his name is now on par with the punch line to a totally tasteless joke about venereal disease. The people of Toronto can decide whether they want that kind of stigma to be part of the cities reputation.
I've heard some reports on radio that he reached out and touched elders in the Somali community who told the drug traffickers to ditch the video.
Rob Ford may have dodged the full impact of this, but his name is now on par with the punch line to a totally tasteless joke about venereal disease. The people of Toronto can decide whether they want that kind of stigma to be part of the cities reputation.
Can't be any worse than the stigma of taxes up the a-ss for lots of stupid stuff from Miller. I will judge his performance as mayor not for the sideshows.
I do know that Gawker is currently sitting on $184,689.81 collected via our Rob Ford Crackstarter. (That's $201,254 raised in total, less $8,365.23 in fees extracted by PayPal, $8,043.96 taken by Indiegogo, and $155 in contributions raised that we have yet to receive.) It is obviously our hope that someone steps up to claim this money and provides us the video.
The Rob Ford Crack Video Might Be "Gone"