Rob Ford Discussion Thread

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i don't use chrome (yet) so lucky me has not seen this but,,,
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014..._rob_ford.html

http://youtu.be/X6KkvYh6rPA

i know i should know the speakers name, but don't and her voice reminds me of,,,

http://youtu.be/P5t-r2OHoWU

was a terrific piece, not sure why i can't find it all,,

there's an article in this morning's globe about the rob's sobriety coach
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle19582848/

....Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s sobriety coach wants the world to know that he loves his job – even though he’s had a hard first couple of weeks at the office.Ever since Mr. Ford’s return from rehab, Robert Marier has been glued to the mayor’s side, and he’s feeling the weight of his new, very high-profile job. The 49-year-old Montrealer, who left his wife behind in Quebec to live out of a suitcase in a Toronto hotel, began working as the mayor’s “sobriety coach” just two weeks ago. Since then, he’s been thrust into the spotlight of the media – including an accusation that he kicked a protester, which he denies – all the while entrusted with the responsibility of keeping the chief magistrate of Canada’s largest city on track in his recovery...
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Mr. Marier has no formal clinical training, instead using his own experience – a “been there, done that” attitude – when working with clients. Working through a company that hires him out, he said he’s helped hundreds of clients in the five years he’s been coaching.
As a coach, he works one-on-one with clients to “reinforce the positive results of continued abstinence,” according to a description he provided to The Globe. He’s also tasked with running “interference” between clients “and those who seek to provide drugs and/or alcohol” – associations the mayor claims he’s cut out of his life.
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guess he's supposed to run interference between rob and sandro

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Originally Posted by lecale

You know, I just have to add, Ford makes $177,499 a year as mayor of Toronto. If you wanna talk about stopping the gravy train, why not get this drunken crackhead out of City Hall?

He's no average joe. He makes huge coin. He will make three-quarters of a million dollars for being Toronto's world renowned Crack Smoking Mayor over the course of 4 years, and he also takes in a salary from Deco Labels, on top of that.

His personal net worth has been estimated to be as high as $50 million.

That's how come the Ford brothers can afford to stand outside public housing buildings and hand out $20 bills. They have discovered the secret to getting elected. While the Ford brothers are in the 1% of wealth in Canada, there are huge numbers of the obese, the drug addicted, the criminal, the public housing resident, welfare cases, high school dropouts, working class immigrants as so forth that see Ford as just like them, and they are poor enough that $20 will buy their vote. And of course that is corrupt. That is criminal. It is illegal to buy votes.

Then, Ford tried to use his powers to cut services to the very people that need them. The TTC, libraries, parks, social services (a.k.a. welfare, early childhood and similar support programs for the poor). It's the elite, like the Fords, and the middle class that are unaffected by these cuts, and the poor that are damaged by them. But it is the poor that elected this guy! He backstabbed them and did everything he could to limit property tax increases to wealthy property owners instead. He calls this ending the gravy train, but the wealthy still get their gravy. The poor are stuck with an empty gravy boat.

Ford is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He appeals to society's downtrodden by presenting himself as one of them. The poor, uneducated, ignorant masses have lifted up a criminal to be Toronto's face to business and the rest of the world. It's a bad situation for everybody (except criminals and the wealthy elite).

That is my problem with Rob Ford. The fact that his is an ignorant, homophobic, antisemitic, misogynistic, drunk and crackhead comes second.

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It sounds like your problem is with the electorate.

I officially now know more about the Fords than I ever needed or cared to. You know most people can barely name their own mayor, this guy is a world wide celebrity. So wrong.

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Originally Posted by lecale

cupcake!

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I really hate people using these cutie kinds of words to dismiss another poster..It's extemely patronising/matronising and adds nothing to the discussion.

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Originally Posted by Darth Penguin

I really hate people using these cutie kinds of words to dismiss another poster..It's extemely patronising/matronising and adds nothing to the discussion.

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Settle down snookums. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by DaveP

Settle down snookums. :rolleyes:

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Hi Pookie how are you?

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Originally Posted by lecale

Yes, we need more social programs for these people, not less.

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And perhaps they shouldn't be trusted with their own vote?

https://www.facebook.com/LetFordBe/p...315619/?type=1 Rob Ford attended a Chinese cultural event in Toronto this week. He was apparently "treated like a rock star" by the attendees

Apparently at the weekend's Japanese festival in downtown Toronto, Mayor Ford showed up and people crowded him to ask for pictures or just to meet him.