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

[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.