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Toronto-Age |OT2|
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somesayyea
Member
it's a Christmas miracle!
I saw that. great reporting Star.
I'm sure his brother is.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/art...d-guilty-kicked-from-office-but-can-run-again
PalaceBrother
Member
I wonder if he'd get elected again.
But this probably makes FORD NATION frothing mad. The dude still had 35% support even after all the crazy stupid stuff he did.
I'd have been happier if the ban on running again for 7 years was enforced rather than this.
I think there's a strong CON push in the suburbs, but I highly doubt its going to be a Ford. He fucked up BIG TIME!
Cromulent_Word
Member
What a glorious, glorious day.
Man it wasn't the 905, it was Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough.
Speaking of the Sun. Not a peep on their website about this.
905 I don't think it means what you think it means.
Oh I know. But when he was elected everyone was crying about the 905ers got him elected. I still find it funny.
Zombie James
Banned
Apparently his radio show got cancelled, too.
Bwahahaaha
As soon as we get a new mayor you guys will be bitching non-stop about them. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. The guy was harmless and infinitely better than Miller. Welcome to Canadian politics where we are more concerned about voting people out than voting the right parties in.
The Elite
BOSS
I have to listen to some AM 640 tomorrow morning. They defended him like crazy on that station.
Go read the comments on the article thats up. GLORIOUS
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/25/ford-faces-decision-day
No I'd rather not get brain damage thank you.
Harmless? Dude nearly destroyed Transit City! Ferris Wheels and Monorails! Using city resources for personal hobbies and for the benefit of his private company! DUUUDE!
How in any way was this guy harmless? He set us back in so many goddamn ways.
criesofthepast
Member
Wow can't believe the news. I'm not a huge Olivia Chow fan so I hope that's not who we have to look forward to.
How could he even fix the transit though? Seriously... by time Ford got in office the transit in Toronto was beyond fucked. And if you think any Mayor hasn't used their position for personal gain, then you are naive.
Like?
I can honestly say that Ford did next to nothing that negatively effected the average person on a daily basis, unlike Miller who tried to battle the unions and got his shit pushed in.
The Elite
BOSS
this is everyone at my office when the news hit
I think there are a few pro-Ford people in my office so I haven't spread the news.
Off the top of my head,
Killed transit city, took us two years to get that back. And it's set us back quite a few more years on top of that.
Tried to close libraries
Tried to build a giant shitty mall and ferris wheel on the portlands even though a solid plan had already been in development
Wasted my tax money spending more to remove bike lanes on jarvis than it took to put them there
Used the recent budget fiasco to push for cuts on vital city services
Being just a shitty person in general
And above all else, he brought shitty tea party politics to Toronto.
Delayed the Eglinton LRT by half a decade at least, axed three other LRT lines to fight for his costly Scarborough subway extension that he was certain would find private funding. Also pushed to have TTC declared an essential, which is only going to drive up cost at the bi-yearly negotiations.
Tried to use his scare tactics with budget cuts and then when people complained he hosted multiple circus like public meetings at city hall. He had people coming in to speak at 3am because he wanted to run it all night instead of being reasonable and reconvening in the morning. Of course, the Mayor couldn't be bothered to sit through all of those. That and his posy of thugs frequently went out of their way to attack people, rather than trying to reason with them. Mammoliti was like a trained guard dog during the meetings.
And he gave the city a shit image with his previous history before he was Mayor, the way he pined for an NFL team for his first six months in office as if it was the most important thing in the world, his weight loss challenge blunder, not attending city events, yelling at reporters, blowing by streetcar doors, ripping up bicycle lanes, crying like a baby when council didn't go with his transit plan.. even when transit experts agreed with them and not Ford.
Just because 'all politicians' are evil doesn't mean we should tolerate Ford. His issues extend far beyond what the norm is, and as you said, the norm is bad enough.
You are tripping if you think a Mayor alone is going to change transit in this city. Everything else you list was contested by parties supporting both sides of the argument (save money vs. save services). And there is no winning with the bike lane debate. Toronto was designed poorly to begin with, hard to change that now.
Oppo
Member
Hard to agree with that when I watched him take out the fucking bike lanes that were already there.
Transit City was on track (paid for!), he derailed it.
Anyways I strongly disagree with your overall "we're too far gone to fix anything" sort of view.
Are you kidding me? We had a plan and he killed it. It would have been great if what you said was true and he didn't get a chance to change anything because otherwise we wouldn't be set back by like five years.
Yes it was contested, but why wouldn't we be happy that we ousted an ass that championed the other side? Especially when he didn't actually save us any money?
Dude... either set up a GAF account for your dad or stop talking about him. What do you think of Ford?
How old are you?
The LRT is a dumb idea. And in regards of shit image, did you forget this:
And the fact that you mentioned his struggle with weight loss really makes me wonder about your opinion in general. No one wakes up in the morning and wants to be that size and yet that's the best argument people can muster up about Ford. Disgusting.
Ford had the amazing fortune that all he needed to do to start fixing transit at the start of his term would be to do NOTHING. Transit City was all ready to roll. He threw the whole plan into chaos for no good reason.
That's such a vague accusation that it's meaningless. Hell every Mayor gets a salary so are using their position for 'personal gain'. You aren't however allowed to break rules and laws while you're Mayor and then be PROUD of it.
And I find it crazy that you're ignoring all of the outright mistakes he's made and have the audacity to claim that the only valid argument against him is weight.
The LRT is a dumb idea. And in regards of shit image, did you forget this:
And the fact that you mentioned his struggle with weight loss really makes me wonder about your opinion in general. No one wakes up in the morning and wants to be that size and yet that's the best argument people can muster up about Ford. Disgusting.
The LRT is a good idea, because above all else, it is the only plan achievable by the city right now.
The changes made to the garbage collectors was the only non-negative thing about his office so far, far outweighted by EVERYTHING ELSE that you seem to choose to ignore.
Beez's dad definitely needs a gaf account
WOW this is crazy! I expected a slap on the wrist... but this is much much better.
Democracy works, folks. He was a horrible mayor and generally seemed like a horrible person. I'm glad all his stupidity got him kicked out of the office (too bar it wasn't sooner though).
Let's just pray he doesn't run again because we all know he's going to run with the "the liberal hippies couldn't deal with how I was cleaning up the gravy so they kicked me out!" which will rile up his base and probably get him re-elected. But he genuinely seemed to not like being a mayor so we'll see...
Democracy works, folks. He was a horrible mayor and generally seemed like a horrible person. I'm glad all his stupidity got him kicked out of the office (too bar it wasn't sooner though).
Let's just pray he doesn't run again because we all know he's going to run with the "the liberal hippies couldn't deal with how I was cleaning up the gravy so they kicked me out!" which will rile up his base and probably get him re-elected. But he genuinely seemed to not like being a mayor so we'll see...