From July 18: @NickKouvalis Rob Ford will run & win in Ward 2 - Doug Ford will run & lose the Mayor's race. You heard it here 1st. #topoli https://mobile.twitter.com/NickKouvalis/status/490243024547348480

‏@ddale8 Mel Lastman on the Ford switch: "It's nuts. It doesn't make sense. This is ridiculous. It's the height of stupidity."

Is Doug Ford allowed in the debates?

I don't see how Rob doesn't win in Ward 2. Which means we'll have four more years of that blustering idiot on council and the international headlines will read: Toronto reelects crack smoking mayor to council.

Doug Ford. Strategist.

He's in rehab, there's nothing he can do.

Doug Ford's Achilles heel is that he thinks he's a great strategist. But that rehab story should've come later, and he's already pissed of Warmington by giving the exclusive to the CBC and not letting Warmington know. Doug is on his own now, I really hope he gets confronted with his limitations...

Renata wasn't the leaker because it was in recorded in the car before they showed up. But it must have been someone close. They surely know who this is. And this person gave it to the Star for free, plus a full verbal account of the night? What is that persons motivation?

So Ford is still hanging out with drug dealers and buying coke, but the police haven't done shit. Fuck them so fucking hard. The police are almost as big of a blight on this city as Ford is.

The Post has one too: http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/30/rob-ford-tape-full-text-the-audio-tape-of-the-toronto-mayor-at-an-etobicoke-bar-disparaging-karen-stintz/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

This jumps the shark for me. Pursuing doesn't mean there's legitimacy. "Can carry," "if..." These are weasel words that don't mean anything except to hype the highest, more extreme possibility. This sounds like nothing more than gossip. It might be cop gossip, but not informed gossip.

Good editorial. I only when he's gone anything associated with him or his style of politics becomes political suicide. Fingers crossed, at least.

It's funny to see some people on twitter freaking out about this, worried that this is dire. But he used to do this all the time, we just didn't know about it. Now there's people watching him every moves he makes, posting photos and videos. Granted, getting hammed at the Leaf game thing is super...

I'm skeptical of escalating it to that degree. He sweats all the time. Does coke and booze do that? Does Oxy?

Alcoholics who want to drink at work drink vodka from a water bottle. It's not to get you actually smell it that you'd realize what it was. Anecdotal I know, but anything's possible with this guy.

Paranoid and prone to conspiracy theories. Just like a coke addict.

So apparently still drunk but not kicked out. I forget some people just like to troll.

Today was like Toronto's Red Wedding.

"Gang members were bracing themselves for what might come." So threats made to regain the video may have compromised Project Traveller? And did Ford know about that investigation and use that knowledge as part of the threat to "bring the heat?" Did Ford have any influence over when and where...

here's the full Star article: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/04/03/brazen_2_probe_of_rob_ford_and_others_mired_in_squabbling.html This especially caught my attention: