I’m sure it’s just because the police are readying a SWAT strike to take me down for this.
In the meantime, the “Warren’s Going To Jail” party is being moved to a bigger venue, to accommodate the large number of folks who have said they want to attend.
The police have fully turned against him. Have a nice day, Your Worship.
To wit:
Source? His own brother. “Mayor Rob Ford has penned ‘numerous’ letters for criminals: Doug Ford.” That’s the headline in the Sun, right here.
Rob Ford claims he opposes “hug a thug” programs. But the thugs he hangs out with, personally?
They’re okay.
He’s had convictions for threatening death to one woman, and assault and threatening bodily harm to a second woman. He entered into a peace bond with a third woman who accused him of assault and threatening death. He also has been charged three times with drug possession. But to Rob Ford, Sandro Lisi was just an “exemplary member of my campaign team where he displayed exceptional leadership skills.”
That’s all bad enough, of course. But isn’t it against the rules for Ford to help out this thug using letterhead from the Mayor of Toronto? Believe me: it is.
UPDATE: He’s clearly violated Article VI of the Code of Conduct. All that need happen, now, is a complaint: “No member of Council should use, or permit the use of City land, facilities, equipment, supplies, services, staff or other resources (for example, City-owned materials, websites, Council transportation delivery services and member of Council expense budgets) for activities other than the business of the Corporation.”
I have read Lenihan’s stuff, and I always try and listen to him speak. I believe he’s one of the smartest guys around when it comes to making Canadian democracy better. His latest essay, on National Newswatch, shows why that is so.
His newest adventure – chairing the Ontario government’s “Open Government” panel thingie – will not be without its challenges, however, and as the photo below makes abundantly clear. (One anonymous Grit staffer had the best response to this unmitigated disaster, which everyone in the province has now seen: “We’re shrinking government, one letter at a time.”)
Good luck, Mr. Lenihan, you’ll clearly need it.
You can’t even make this shit up, anymore.
Why doesn’t Rob Ford go and join his cronies behind bars, where they all seem to be found? He’d be happier, and so would we.
A well-known columnist asks a question. A little-known columnist responds.
I don’t understand why everyone is puzzling over Mike Duffy’s motive, here. It’s simple: revenge. If they are going to try and destroy him, he’s going to destroy them.
Norman Spector said yesterday that this whole thing may mark the end of Stephen Harper’s time as Prime Minister. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know this much about politics: if you corner desperate men, and if you give them no way out, they’ll do everything they can to kill you.
