Snoopster
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My sympathies to the good folks of that great city, Toronto, but seriously, you voted this guy in?
After dodging accusations for many months now, the mayor, Rob Ford, admitted to the press today that he might have done crack cocaine in a drunken stupor about a year ago.
Unfortunately for him, him he denied these accusations for the past number of months, but once the Chief of Police confirmed that actions consistent with this were in fact on video, the mayor finally admitted it.
Of course, that shouldn't impact his mayoralty term should it???
Of course, it's really worse than that...
http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/11/05/mayor_ford_finally_comes_clean.html
(Please keep in mind that there is an absolute feud between Mayor Ford (and his circle - what's left of it) and the Toronto Star. The Star, and gawker, both indicated that they were offered a video for a price showing the mayor smoking crack, but declined. The mayor took them to task saying there was no such video, although he has since changed his tune.)
Rob Ford's apologist/enabler brother isn't helping him at this point. Simply a bad team. Of course they would like the police chief gone...he exposed the mayor for what he is. (Let's just not get into the impression that the mayor hung around with drug dealers, and his drug-dealing driver is on trial for extortion.) The mayor wasn't going to deal with his problems otherwise. JMO.
After dodging accusations for many months now, the mayor, Rob Ford, admitted to the press today that he might have done crack cocaine in a drunken stupor about a year ago.
Unfortunately for him, him he denied these accusations for the past number of months, but once the Chief of Police confirmed that actions consistent with this were in fact on video, the mayor finally admitted it.
Of course, that shouldn't impact his mayoralty term should it???
Of course, it's really worse than that...
The mayors announcement came as such a surprise because an hour earlier Fords brother, Councillor Doug Ford, held a news conference blasting police Chief Bill Blair for releasing info on the video showing the mayor smoking what appears to be crack.
Blair had said he was disappointed at what he saw on the video and Councillor Ford said that was inappropriate. He wanted Blair gone. He said he was not intimidated by the chief and was the only one willing to stand up to Blair and prevent Toronto from turning into a police state.
That ratcheted up criticisms from city councillors who called the attacks on the chief outrageous and beyond the pale.
http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/11/05/mayor_ford_finally_comes_clean.html
(Please keep in mind that there is an absolute feud between Mayor Ford (and his circle - what's left of it) and the Toronto Star. The Star, and gawker, both indicated that they were offered a video for a price showing the mayor smoking crack, but declined. The mayor took them to task saying there was no such video, although he has since changed his tune.)
Rob Ford's apologist/enabler brother isn't helping him at this point. Simply a bad team. Of course they would like the police chief gone...he exposed the mayor for what he is. (Let's just not get into the impression that the mayor hung around with drug dealers, and his drug-dealing driver is on trial for extortion.) The mayor wasn't going to deal with his problems otherwise. JMO.