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Toronto Mayor

What should Rob Ford do?

  • Resign

    Votes: 14 63.6%

  • Take Some Time Away

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Nothing

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • Other (explain)

    Votes: 5 22.7%
  • Total voters
    22
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Just a quick poll about what you think about the situation around Rob Ford, the embattled Toronto Mayor. Please explain your response.
 
The most appropriate thing to do for himself and the city of Toronto is to resign.
 
iacardsfan said:
Just a quick poll about what you think about the situation around Rob Ford, the embattled Toronto Mayor. Please explain your response.
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I picked other.I could care less what the mayor of Toronto does. Its like trying to care what the mayor of Istanbul Turkey, Oaxaca Mexico, Pretoria South Africa or the mayor of some other city does.
 
I would say it depends on if he was doing a good job

I don't like him personally, and I am not sure on how his budget cuts have effected the city (positive or negative). His personal life is his, and what he has done, while stupid in my opinion, is certainly not bad enough to say he is a horrible evil person who should lose his job. The biggest issue is that he left himself open to blackmail while doing what he did
 
I hear he likes to get college presidents drunk before major speeches too. Definitely has to go.
 
As a former resident of Toronto I can say...

We all fall down.

We all stumble.

Hell my time in Toronto was characterized by heavy alcohol and marijuana usage. Three years later I have a wife and kid, and at junior management level in the hotel industry.

I don't have anything against the guy personally, I never found him particularly palatable as Mayor but that's just my opinion.

But the issue is that as mayor he is charged with performing certain tasks for the city (such as promoting the city, securing multi-billion/million dollar projects) which I feel are just not possible with all of this surrounding him.

He should resign immediately.
 
i voted other and ive just saying, when 58% of Americans support pot, can we really be so judgmental of when someone smokes another drug. and yes he took an oath, but hes a politicain people, did anyone really expect him not to break a rule or two?
 
iacardsfan said:
Just a quick poll about what you think about the situation around Rob Ford, the embattled Toronto Mayor. Please explain your response.
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I chose other - as a resident of Toronto, I voted for Mayor Ford and I will gladly vote for Mayor Ford again next October. He may be a bull in a china shop, but that china shop needs to be busted up a lot and he's the man who's been digging up the liberal rooted decay at city hall and he still has lots to do.

He should continue with his agenda of reducing waste, saving taxpayers' money, reducing and/or limiting the growth of taxes, and exposing the teat-sucking liberal leeches who've been destroying the city for too long.
 
Ford is a train wreck. He is out of control AND it seems to have affected his ability to make rational decisions. It would appear that Ford is an alcoholic on his way to the bottom. He has already admitted to smoking crack and will not admit to smoking it only once. He is reported to also smoke pot and abuses oxycontin. Snorting coke in a nightclub has been mentioned by several sources. Attempting to use his power as mayor to find out about police surveillance and to attempt to talk to a prisoner in jail long after visiting hours and possibly paying for the utility bills at an alleged crack house; posing (socially) in front of the crack house with 3 drug hustlers; one of whom was murdered and the other in jail for trafficking; admitting to city council yesterday that he has purchased illegal drugs - might be red flags. LOL! Crack? Who the hell smokes crack other than out of control junkies, marginal members of the mainstream and people so deep into other substance addictions that smoking crack is a common progression.

There is more, but why list it all? In fact, the investigation into Ford by the police and the press doesn't seem to be complete at this point.

Ford has yet decided if he needs rehab! From all I have read he is in no way contrite. Would you want someone like this running your business? The good Ford has accomplished for Toronto is overshadowed by Ford's public meltdown. He is a sick man who needs a great deal of help, physically and psychologically. He is no longer responsible to himself and it sounds as if he has long ago lost the confidence of most of his staff. He should resign now and begin working on his life and his family.

Lastly, it would appear that Ford has compromised himself to the point that many other people in positions of power are going to stay the hell away from him. What he may have accomplished in the past is well, in the past. I doubt he has the brainpower to function as he once did.
 
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Risky Thicket said:
Ford is a train wreck. He is out of control AND it seems to have affected his ability to make rational decisions. It would appear that Ford is an alcoholic on his way to the bottom. He has already admitted to smoking crack and will not admit to smoking it only once. He is reported to also smoke pot and abuses oxycontin. Snorting coke in a nightclub has been mentioned by several sources. Attempting to use his power as mayor to find out about police surveillance and to attempt to talk to a prisoner in jail long after visiting hours and possibly paying for the utility bills at an alleged crack house; posing (socially) in front of the crack house with 3 drug hustlers; one of whom was murdered and the other in jail for trafficking; admitting to city council yesterday that he has purchased illegal drugs might be red flags. LOL!

There is more, but why list it all? In fact, the investigation into Ford by the police and the press doesn't seem to be complete at this point.

Ford has yet decided if he needs rehab! From all I have read he is in no way contrite. Would you want someone like this running your business? The good Ford has accomplished for Toronto is overshadowed by Ford's public meltdown. He is a sick man who needs a great deal of help, physically and psychologically. He is no longer responsible to himself and it sounds as if he has long ago lost the confidence of most of his staff. He should resign now and begin working on his life and his family.
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He's full of stinkin-thinkin that's common for people who have chemical dependency issues. He's obviously going to leave claw marks before he surrenders. That'll be an outward sign that he's hit bottom. And that's what he doesn't want people to be witness to.
 
Removable Mind said:
He's full of stinkin-thinkin that's common for people who have chemical dependency issues. He's obviously going to leave claw marks before he surrenders. That'll be an outward sign that he's hit bottom. And that's what he doesn't want people to be witness to.
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Yesterday a member of Toronto City Council asked him if there were any other skeleton's left in his closet. Ford replied, "Maybe a coat hanger."

He was apparently a good mayor, but probably accomplished most of achievements before he barreled over the edge. I wish him the best, but I seriously doubt his recovery will be possible without major life changes. Seems to me Ford must first realize that being a mayor is relatively short term, but being a practicing addict can be forever if he doesn't do the heavy lifting to make it to and through recovery.
 
He broke the law. He should go...to jail. Period.
 
CanadaJohn said:
What law did he break? Why haven't the police charged him with breaking the law?
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Purchasing and using illegal drugs is a crime.

Just because the cops haven't cuffed him and stuffed him, doesn't mean that he didn't break the law.
 
apdst said:
Purchasing and using illegal drugs is a crime.

Just because the cops haven't cuffed him and stuffed him, doesn't mean that he didn't break the law.
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Maybe so - there's perhaps one or two on council who haven't. How many in Washington have? The leader of the opposition in Ottawa has admitted to doing the same - however, he's a liberal so the requirement to resign doesn't apply.
 
JJB3333 said:
i voted other and ive just saying, when 58% of Americans support pot, can we really be so judgmental of when someone smokes another drug. and yes he took an oath, but hes a politicain people, did anyone really expect him not to break a rule or two?
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Politicians should not slide down to that level and still be acceptable.
 
CanadaJohn said:
What law did he break? Why haven't the police charged him with breaking the law?
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Might want to read your own papers.

Ford himself is the one who admitted that he had purchased illegal drugs.

Oopsie.
 
CanadaJohn said:
So, why haven't police charged him?
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I don't know, and don't care.

Maybe they all just worship him as their hero, and the bestest Canadian role model.

Look at all the new tourism that will be generated by people who come to worship, him being god-like and all.
 
SMTA said:
I don't know, and don't care.

Maybe they all just worship him as their hero, and the bestest Canadian role model.

Look at all the new tourism that will be generated by people who come to worship, him being god-like and all.
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I'll put you down as not visiting Toronto this year - what a pity.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I'll put you down as not visiting Toronto this year - what a pity.
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Sorry - I not an alcoholic and don't smoke crack, so there is really no need.

Sorry to disappoint you!
 
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