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Rob Ford's Greatest Hits / 'Interesting' politicians in your city

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EvilMario

Will QA for food.
Over the past couple of years, people have gotten to know Toronto's Mayor, Rob Ford, for his very out spoken.. and often inane public gestures. Below are a few of Ford's highlights over his political career. Are there any interesting / colourful / rage inducing politicians from your city?

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Rob Ford: 42 remarkable moments from Toronto mayor’s career

9. February 2013: A forensic audit of Ford’s campaign financial practices concludes that he overspent the legal limit and that he committed dozens of other “apparent contraventions” of elections law. An expert committee later votes 2-1 against prosecuting him.

10. November 2012: A judge ousts Ford from office for violating conflict of interest law by casting a vote at council to excuse himself from repaying $3,150 to lobbyists and a company from which he had accepted donations for his foundation. He is granted a stay that allows him to keep his job pending his appeal, which he wins in January.

11. November 2012: Paying TTC passengers are told to get off a bus in the rain so it can pick up Ford’s football team after an away game and drive them back to Don Bosco. After the police request the bus, Ford calls the TTC’s chief executive officer on his cellphone, then calls him again when the bus does not arrive immediately.

22. January 2012: Ford calls centrist and progressive councillors “two steps left of Joe Stalin.”

25. July 2011: As he does every year, Ford votes against each of six widely popular grants programs that provide city money to community organizations. He loses 43-1 in votes on the first four programs, 42-2 on the fifth, and 41-3 on the sixth.

29. August 2010: The Toronto Sun confronts Ford about an arrest in Florida in 1999 for marijuana possession. Ford adamantly denies the charge: “I’m dead serious. When I say no, I mean never. No question, Now I’m getting offended. No means no.” He later acknowledges that he had “one joint in my back pocket.” The next day, he says his memory had been fuzzy because he had been charged with “failing to give a breath sample” that same night. But even that is not true: he was actually charged with driving under the influence, to which he pleaded no contest.

36. March 2008: During a debate about whether to allow stores to open on holidays, Ford says, “Go to the Orient, go to Hong Kong ... You want to see workaholics? Those Oriental people work like dogs ... they sleep beside their machines. The Oriental people, they're slowly taking over ... they’re hard, hard workers.”

37. March 2007: Ford says: “Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. And, you know, my heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day.”

38. June 2006: During a debate on HIV/AIDS prevention spending, Ford says, according to a National Post transcript, “Why are we catering to one group with a disease that's preventable? It's very preventable. If you're not doing needles and you're not gay, you won't get AIDS probably. And I don't know why we're spending $1.5-million on this.”

41. June 2005: During the annual grants debate, Ford says, according to the Globe and Mail: “I don’t understand. Number one, I don’t understand a transgender. I don’t understand: is it a guy dressed up like a girl or a girl dressed up like a guy?”
 

Divvy

Canadians burned my passport
So, how does this guy keep getting elected?

And will he if this "crack footage" is real?

He's only been elected once, mostly because he brought over the stupid "tea party" branded politics over and the conservative people in the suburbs ate it up. Also the opposition was pretty crappy too. Just a bad term for Toronto all around.
 

EvilMario

Will QA for food.
So, how does this guy keep getting elected?

And will he if this "crack footage" is real?

His campaign slogan was 'stop the gravy train' at City Hall. The mayor before him had very strong liberal and socialist leanings, which many downtown applauded, but many of the suburbs hated. Ford, being from the suburbs in the city, took that and used it as his platform.
 

Kinitari

Black Canada Mafia
So, how does this guy keep getting elected?

And will he if this "crack footage" is real?

People really don't vote often in this city. Well... that'll probably change a bit now. He's been so bad he'll probably really help increase that youth vote.

I can only imagine how voting would change if you could vote online.
 

JDeluis

Member
37. March 2007: Ford says: “Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. And, you know, my heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day.”

I'd vote for him just for this quote. LOL

Screw Bilkes
 

EvilMario

Will QA for food.
I'd vote for him just for this quote. LOL

Screw Bilkes

One of the best ways to commute in this city, that is basically stuck in gridlock for more than half the day. Why would you be against dedicated bicycle lanes that keep bicycles from needing to share a lane with a car?
 

JDeluis

Member
One of the best ways to commute in this city, that is basically stuck in gridlock for more than half the day. Why would you be against dedicated bicycle lanes that keep bicycles from needing to share a lane with a car?

Calm down. It's a joke. You don't need to worry about me voting for him, I don't live Canada eh.
 

FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
Gotta go with Ernie Chambers of Omaha. He's be a senator in the Nebraska Unicameral since 1971 (minus a small four year stent from 2009-13 because term limits, lol) The dude's awesome and kinda crazy at the same time. He's got a really colorful personality, is constantly fighting for the African-American community of Omaha, wears sweatpants and t-shirts to legislative sessions rather than suits, sued God in 2007, etc. He's not rage inducing to me, cause I love the guy, but I bet ya other people in the state loathe him, unfortunately.

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EvilMario

Will QA for food.
Calm down. It's a joke. You don't need to worry about me voting for him, I don't live Canada eh.

Calm down? I was just asking a question. I want to know why you would be against dedicated bicycle lanes in a major city. You're the one that made the initial comment, so I just want clarity.

Gotta go with Ernie Chambers of Omaha. He's be a senator in the Nebraska Unicameral since 1971 (minus a small four year stent from 2009-13 because term limits, lol) The dude's awesome and kinda crazy at the same time. He's got a really colorful personality, is constantly fighting for the African-American community of Omaha, wears sweatpants and t-shirts to legislative sessions rather than suits, sued God in 2007, etc.

I wonder how often that's happened. Bwaha.
 

FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
Calm down? I was just asking a question. I want to know why you would be against dedicated bicycle lanes in a major city. You're the one that made the initial comment, so I just want clarity.



I wonder how often that's happened. Bwaha.

IIRC he did it not because he's like "lol fuck religion amiriteguyz?" but he did it to make fun of frivolous lawsuits.
 

ToxicAdam

Member
Carty Finkbeiner in Toledo is a legend.

He's been a Democrat, a Republican and an Independent. He's been the mayor, a council person and a national embarrassment.


He's different from many mayors as it seems he isn't crooked, just incompetent. Lots of verbal gaffes and physical altercations.

His bets ever:

Finkbeiner’s 1994 suggestion that deaf people should be located to the airport. There’s a key moment when Finkbeiner breaks into tears at a press conference addressing the national scandal, but then says he still intends to pursue the idea.

The 1999 call for a boycott of Little Caeser’s pizza, because Finkbeiner did not like a chain’s owner’s plan to build a sports arena in Rossford to compete with Toledo’s. The local franchises responded by changing “Crazy Bread” to “Carty Bread” and offering a special on a ham pizza.

The 2007 incident in which Finkbeiner parked in a handicapped spot and left his dog, Scout, locked in the car. Oddly, Murray does not mention that the incident was repeated shortly thereafter, or that it happened again a year later.

Finkbeiner to then-Human Resources Director Bill Logie at a labor negotiation session: “You just shut up. I don’t want to hear anything out of you or I’ll smash your face.

In May 2006, he called Toledo's African American Fire Chief Michael Bell “King Kong” at a staff meeting

A lot more here
 
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