Musings —05.23.2013 01:34 PM
—Ford follies, ad absurdum
This is fun! Just did a phoner with CITY-TV about the latest installment in this three-ring circus masquerading as a municipal government: Rob Ford just fired his most senior, and most loyal, guy: his Chief of Staff.
Anyway. Just thought I’d post the screen grab, because it struck me as amusing, somehow. Now CITY wants to hear SFH’s anti-Rob Ford tune!
Was he one of the D-Bags handing out magnets and business cards at Peter Worthington’s funeral yesterday?
If so, then this is a good firing.
Sun News is reporting they have been told Ford will be making a statement this afternoon. Don’t know if it’s about this firing or about the video.
Neither. It’s going to be about how he stopped the gravy train.
…and rode the crack train off the rails.
Obviously not one of Ford’s aides distributing magnets.
In Towhey’s defence, he’s far too astute.
Yeah, my bad.
Just went back to look at the pic again. Obviously not him.
He got fired over a disagreement about football? WTF?
More likely about him coaching the Don Boscoe Eagles football team.
Even some of his council allies suggested when he became mayor he should step down as coach.
I would suspect he gave Ford his advice on how to handle the current crack allegations that Rob didn’t like and that’s the real reason for the firing.
so im guessing withdrawal is a bitch and his chief of staff refused to procure him crack. Thats grounds for dismissal right?
To be fair, council has moved along as much as much as they have been able to with the 2 years of the Ford gong show. If Ford isn’t an argument against a “strong mayor” system, then I don’t know what else could be.
Really, imagine the Two Ompa Loompas with power beyond a single vote. Frightening.
Before he was elected I predicted that he wouldn’t be mayor by the end of his term. Now I’m not sure he will be alive by the end of his term.
The whole Rob Ford thing now has a last days of Watergate feel to it. It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion. You don’t want to look but you can’t look away.
But you have to look away, if only to catch the Watergate car crash in slow motion happening in Ottawa. Look away from either one for a few minutes and there’s some brand new event.
There’s something to be said about two hardcore conservative leaders – a PM and a mayor – embroiled in scandal and firing their chiefs of staff, in both cases probably one of the key people keeping some sense of sanity in the office, some level of connection to reality.
Without Towhey and without Wright, those much maligned offices are even further diminished and dysfunctional.
exactly, and hopefully that is going to be the final nail in both coffins.
Let’s hope.
Somewhere in all this, Kathleen Wynne is laughing.
I don’t know – she might be laughing harder if she was in the middle of an election campaign with Doug Ford as a PC star candidate
Breaking now:
680 News in Toronto is reporting Gawker has suspended fundraising for the Ford video for the time being as they have not been able to reach the “owners” since Sunday.
Gawker now saying they are continuing the fundraising but have put an update on their, and the fundraising site they haven’t been able to reach the owner.
Something like “Our confidence in being able to obtain this video has diminished”
oh boy…guess fordnation sent out the goons to roust them and bury them! or they got paid off by fordnation
Didn’t someone once talk about a Tory Troika, or a three-peat, or a threeway or something or other a little over a year ago?
Christmas-on-a-crack-pipe! did we ever dodge a bullet or what?
BTW, Shucks ain’t they sweet!
http://is.gd/BxQjQb
I’m sure as someone who has crisis management expertise W would agree that the solution is not (a) stick head in sand and hope it blows over or, worse, (b) engineer a cover-up. The correct course of action is always to admit a wrong and try to mitigate any damage ( e.g in this case – ” I’ll be making a visit to the Betty Ford ” ). His CoS seems to have a background in crisis management so my guess is he gave Ford that exact textbook advise and lost his job for it. If so, the fact Ford won’t take sound advise in the face of a crisis is just as damning to his leadership ability as the apparent crack problem.
I dunno… the whole smoking crack thing might still trump the not able to take reasonable advice thing in this case.
Warren – Is this the single strangest series of events you’ve ever seen in politics? I mean, at this point is there anything – no matter how outlandish – that someone could say about Ford that you could definitively say “Oh there’s no way that could be true”? It’s like he’s on the edge of some kind of breakdown. It reminds me of the early days of Charlie Sheen’s “winning”.
thats soo true…well except that Sheen wouldnt shut up and went on every talk show that would have him. Ford is going all quiet…which is just as eerie.
Thought you wouldn’t post it…keep echoing away in here losers.
I’ll go out on a limb here and speculate that’s its a little past time for Mayor Ford to hire Daisy Group to help him with his … image.
I think Robbie Boo Boo is heading for detox, so that he has a small chance to salvage something he can hang onto.
Like his pride.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/mayor-rob-fords-allies-prepare-to-run-toronto/article12123758/
Maybe.
But Doug Haladay who is on the Executive Committee said he has no knowledge of this.
There has been a request for a conference call to discuss the situation, but Haladay wants a face to face meeting instead.
It’s been fun, and in the rest of Canada we have all had a good time laughing at Toronto. But at this point, the joke has run its course. Probably time for Ford to resign and let us all get back to mocking the Leafs (the real winners in all this, epic choke completely overshadowed)