More staff depart Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's office

[james_davis_nicoll]

Two more staff members have abruptly left the office of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, following on the heels of three of their senior colleagues who departed in recent days.

Comments

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

Sinking ship?

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Hell, it's a wonder he hasn't left.

Most likely by falling out a window, of course.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Remind me again which floor the mayor's office is on in the City Hall complex...?

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

My inaccurate memory suggests the second floor.

And my opinion of Rob is such that I suspect he would try to leap out that window.

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but if he did, he'd bounce.

(Oooh, 'bang, that was not nice!!)

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Probably get stuck.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

He. Is. Doomed.

His Executive Assistant just walked out the door. That's like the first officer leaving the captain as the last person on the ship. Out of a staff in the teens, he's lost five people in less than two weeks.

What's the over under on him coming to work on Monday and finding nothing but an empty set of offices devoid of anything but some ethernet cabling ends poking out of the walls?

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

I really doubt everyone will leave; it's a family-loyalty sort of setup, and I also doubt the slow seep of critical information is getting to all of them.

Rob just isn't going to quit, not for anything. That would be admitting failure and he's not actually suffering any erosion of voter support yet. Plus there's no mechanism to force him out. Politically tricky for the Premier to do something about it, pretty sure it would take specific legislation and that involves avenues for a court challenge.

Also note that the most likely outcome of Ford being removed is the Deputy Mayor gets it, and Doug Holyday is just as horribly conservative but politically competent.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Given the choice between horribly conservative and a complete chucklehead, and horribly conservative and politically competent, I might just think that the latter should be the right choice.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Except the complete chucklehead isn't getting anything done, and Council's being unusually sensible in response.

It wouldn't have taken all that much competence to saddle us with a casino, for example. Holyday might well get stuff done.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Fair point.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Now I wish I had access to his offices just so I could pull this prank. Clean out the furniture, leave a single cardboard box of Ford's personal effects on the floor, and if possible remove his name from the door. And install enough cameras to get the whole thing for posterity when he comes in and finds his office gone...

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

It's getting to where I'm checking the Internet every couple of hours, just to see if there have been any new arrests or resignations in Toronto.

[maruad.livejournal.com]

If things get too slow, the Mike Duffy scandal is slowly whacking away the Prime Minister and his credibility. Things might be a bit quiet with that one though as the Senate has passed the matter on to the RCMP.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

I'm still always flabbergasted by what people in aggregate seem to care about in politics. All the ridiculous crap Harper's pulled gets nothing - no, what might bring him down is a Senator spending money. Since when has anyone cared what Senators do?

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Pure financial malfeasance is very bad stuff in Canadian politics, it doesn't really matter who is doing it.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

I'm expecting the "conspiracy to murder" charges to come out any day now.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

I'll be very surprised.

Much as I'll be very surprised if the RCMP admits to finding anything in the Duffy scandal.

Both the Toronto Police and the RCMP are heavily committed to the conservative political cause. (We have, for example, the RCMP's bait-and-switch over Mulroney's bribes that caused significant trouble for Chretien.)