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 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.