Paul Ainslie ‏@cllrainslie 9h City committee rejects ranked balloting machines http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/4754470-city-committee-rejects-ranked-balloting-machines/ … via @ccmirror Doug Ford, Crisanti, Leon and Shiner were the no votes.

Steven D'Souza ‏@cbcsteve 59m A police dog bomb-sniffing dog just entered the Mayor's office Too bad the dog is just sniffing for bombs. I wonder if they're ever trained for double duty, like bombs and drugs!

Well......that depends on who is signing his paycheques.

Andray shud "encourage" a few more people with the last name Ford to run in Ward 2. So if name recognition is the voting criterion, that'll really confuse them.

There is that too. The polls seem to reflect Tory has momentum right now. He shud ride it for another month and see if it is maintained. The time to deal would be late Sept/early Oct. By that time he might be so far ahead he might not need to.

Yeah something definitely went down in RoFo's office that afternoon. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall. Hopefully the full story will come out eventually.

Pedro Marques ‏@MetroManTO 7m Indications that Stintz is on the verge of a deal with Tory for the Speaker's chair. Right @NickKouvalis? #TOpoli 1:07 AM - 9 Aug 2014 · I don't see why Tory would do so at this point in time. Why not just let her fade away? Her 4% is not packing a lot of...

I really hope this is not a big part of her drop in popularity. Otherwise we really deserve what we will end up with!

I hope there are many more like you. It will help ensure RoFo won't get elected this time around.

What is more pathetic is main stream press fighting to put all this nonsense on the front page! Most of them have become stenographers rather than journalists.

We finally bit the bullet and cut the landline. It was cathartic. Next up, the car!:)

There is this too. In our family we never pick up an unknown number. Neither do any of our friends that we have spoken about this. Maybe that, and landline only, are why the polls are so "off" in recent elections.

Betty White!

Yes please. Why was she even given the 15min in the first place?

no 76% yes 23%

Surely he can't be THAT stupid!

Hmm.......Ford Nation won't need the endorsement but not sure if the balance of the electorate will be swayed by a Stintz endorsement either, as mentioned a couple of pages back.

But it may not be extortion. I am having trouble to figure what RoFo wanted to keep whatever it is on the QT.

And it fits the narrative so far. Stintz has been treating Ford with kids glove so far in the campaign, the visit to his office, her reaction when she left and suddenly the jamming issue was "settled"! Maybe she was finally made aware their drug taking was captured on vid or pics. What I'm...

RoFo started off his opening address with $700 mil in savings. Within the last 15 min that has changed to $1 billion. He has mentioned it twice already. I think he's going to stick with that going forward.