Rob Ford video in police hands
Oct. 31st, 2013 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Blair said a video seized during an investigation contains images of Ford that are "consistent with that which had previously been described in various media reports," an apparent reference to an alleged video that shows Ford smoking crack cocaine.
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Date: 2013-10-31 04:25 pm (UTC)Who does seem to be the brains of the outfit.
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Date: 2013-10-31 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 04:34 pm (UTC)-- Steve wishes he could be at home and keeping up the events as they unfold. With a nice big bowl of popcorn, of course.
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Date: 2013-10-31 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 04:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 05:54 pm (UTC)Ford's on Team Harper; they just went to considerable trouble to prop up Ford's re-election chances with federal subway funding out of the blue. (Ford's subsequent tack, that suburban subways across Finch and Sheppard are clearly of greater importance than a downtown relief line, so those should clearly happen before any downtown relief line is contemplated, is of a piece with the whole "hatred of functional cites" conservative policy line.)
It's hard to tell what will actually damage Ford, politically, but this can't be good. And it can't begin to hope to keep Duffy's next shoe, if he's got one to drop, out of the headlines.
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Date: 2013-10-31 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 06:38 pm (UTC)Ford's a movement conservative; Harper gets invited to the Ford barbecue, Ford's personal convictions run to authoritarianism and serious oversimplification and a loathing of diversity and peace. Harper's done major things to help him out politically, endorsements, etc., not just the subway money.
Duffy may be conservative, but there isn't much evidence that he's a movement conservative; he seems more to have viewed the senate seat as a fee for service, and is responding to a threat to take it away with the political equivalent of a breach of contract suit. (It may also be the case that he's got very little to lose.)
So I don't see the two situations as being all that parallel.
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Date: 2013-10-31 08:09 pm (UTC)Lots, lots more details, which I haven't finished reading.
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Date: 2013-10-31 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-31 08:56 pm (UTC)(Thinking you are being followed by the cops and performing counter-surveillance driving sort of makes it clear you are really worried about surveillance and therefore probably worth following.)
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Date: 2013-10-31 09:37 pm (UTC)Just why you would talk to your dealer on average more than ten times a day would be interesting, too, if Lisi does turn out to have been Rob Ford's dealer.
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Date: 2013-11-01 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-01 10:35 am (UTC)The four-times-a-week package volume would support partners. The Sun's original crack video reporting nebulously implied that Doug Ford still ran at least the Etobicoke drug trade, just as he had as a young man. The whole November 8th and the official response to Clayton Ruby's complaint that the police generally and Blair specifically had flubbed the investigation by not charging Ford would support something like that, too, because that boiled down to "wait for it, you impatient leftie".
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Date: 2013-11-01 05:07 pm (UTC)Honestly, I don't think (Rob) Ford is a dealer. He doesn't seem competent enough to have lasted this long.
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Date: 2013-11-03 02:08 am (UTC)It's just boggling my mind that the mayor, one of the most easily-recognized people in the city, would engage in suspicious behavior like that. Hanging around a park with vodka and grape drink and throwing the empties around. Why wasn't anyone near him willing to tell him that he needed to keep a low profile?
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Date: 2013-10-31 11:57 pm (UTC)In an alternate universe, with Fantino still in charge, the video would still be missing. The Mayor would have disbanded the Toronto Police Services Board (the civilian oversight committee for the police), and a municipal bylaw would have been passed banning the SIU (which investigates police misconduct) from setting foot inside the GTA. Plus the police would have a 200% raise. Retroactive to the year 2000.
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Date: 2013-10-31 08:23 pm (UTC)BOOM.