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Originally Posted by Linus

From what I've been reading (via CBC and HuffPost.ca) this guy is actually worse than Mel Lastman -- and that is saying a lot.

Oh god...dude...not even the same league as Lastman. Lastman wasn't exactly world's best mayor, but Ford is like a parody of the worst redneck bigot you could possibly think of. Not even the conservatives wanted his support in the past two election campaigns. Have you seen the TweedleRob and TweedleDoug caricatures? They've been vandalized all over the city, lol. He really is the worst mayor this city has ever had. From privatizing garbage pick up west of Yonge, to him and Doug's whole "hey, let's build the world's largest ferris wheel on Toronto's lakeshore! And a giant mall! Tourists will flock!" venture, to selling off/trying to sell off the city's low income housing units (cause we need more condos! everyone wants to buy condos! Never mind poor people can't find places to live! They're just lazy anarchists!), to lying about the whole transit city deal with the province...to every other stupid idea the dude has ever had. This city is going to be a mess by the time he's done with it. He's even mentioned trying to decamp the Occupy movement currently set up in St. James park. And if he does I get the sense the shit will really hit the fan, cause a surprising amount of people here are supporting the movement.

I also wonder if Rob or Doug (aka co-mayor) have any knowledge whatsoever of Canadian culture in general. First Doug claims he has no clue who Margaret Atwood is, now Rob doesn't know who Marg Warrior Princess is ()...seriously, where have these guys been? Under a rock?

And yeah...this whole 911 call on Marg was just beyond stupid. I keep thinking to myself "no, he can't be THAT fucking stupid"...then he goes and does something stupider than the last time. Apparently he tried to deny calling police dispatch "bitches" and throwing insults at them...little did he realise...it's a fucking 911 call. They record it you moron! You can't deny something they've recorded you saying, and the police ain't exactly your biggest fans as of late.

Then he tries to lie about how the Marg thing went down, saying she came running out of the van scaring his young daughter who supposedly went screaming back into the house "and freaking out." Uh...duuuhh, you don't think there were cameras filming the whole thing, Mr. Ford? As Marg said "unless the child was in his suit coat, there wasn't any child there." And of course, he has to tell us how intimidated and afraid he was. And again gotta love Marg's reply to that one "I'm a 60 year old woman with a plastic sword..."

So yeah, in conclusion, he is definitely fucking worse than Lastman. Lastman I didn't question as a sentient being. Ford is like a character you'd expect to be in Family Guy or the Simpsons. Fucking hate the guy and his "gravy train" bullshit with a passion, and can't believe how many idiotic people who haven't been able to figure out that not paying taxes = no money for city/no money for public services fell for his campaign. Oh well, never mind he's shut down all sorts of museums, is screwing everyone over by wiping out public services...but damn, at least he got rid of those pesky vehicle registration fees! *megaeyeroll*

Did I mention I really fucking hate him?