Rob Ford video in police hands

[james_davis_nicoll]

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.

Comments

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Doesn't seem likely.

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.

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Duffy on Team Harper too, until he wasn't?

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Not in the same way.

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.