How is stating the fact that Ford is a lying drunken bigot a petty attack? I'm not attacking the man - there is no reason to. I was simply stating fact.
We know his is a liar - he has done so frequently. One example was when he was asked if he'd ever been charged with drunk driving, and he said that he hadn't. Later on he admitted to not only being charged, but also to being convicted.
We know he is a drunk ... the DUI previously mentioned, and the incident where he got tossed out of the ACC a couple of years ago prove that.
And we know his is a bigot, as demonstrated by his anti-gay comments. He has clearly stated that he opposed gay marriage. Anyone who speaks out against gay marriage is a bigot.
I'm not sure why you keep trying to twist this into immigration; I'm not raising that issue, and I'm not raising his habit of making ethnic stereotypes.
Good god man.
Your hatred for Ford and others that supported him and also towards those that don't share your superior progressive values have just become irrational rants. One DUI charge that was apparently later dropped doesn't make him a raging drunk. And if Ford is a liar, what of the many other councillors that have lied including Miller? You don't turn this same intense scrunity towards them for some strange reason.
And what about Smitherman's very colour past?
Or that while as a cabinet minister, he was well known for being verbal abusive on a regular basis. No secret here. Not one peep from you and others at this forum though about how Smitherman has a well documented history of being verbally abusive while in cabinet, having a out of control drug addiction problem in his past and himself lying to the public and obviously corrupt while in office.
Yet while you and others quietly ignore this, you contiinue to paint Ford as some raged filled red neck type that hates everyone in the city. The real issue here is that your people lost the election and you can't stand this reality. You're coming across as being a bitter, bitter sore loser.
Thus, Ford and everyone connected with his win are evil and misguided invivdiuals because it's the only thing in your mind that can possibly explain the end results. As opposed to actually understanding and accepting that enough people in this city, finally fed up with what's been going on at city hall cast their votes and overwhelmingly voted Ford in to try and fix things.
This was a democracy and Ford won and now his job and that of the rest of council is make this city work. That means working together. And this means
certain councillors, still bitter about the results and licking their wounds, need to put their egos aside and work with the mayor. Not making comments about refusing to work with him on the basis they just don't like the man.
And if in your mind
anyone who believes in the traditional definition of marriage as being between a man and woman ( which includes Ford, myself, most of my friends and co-workers and society) are evil bigots.... Then that says more about your mentality and refusal to accept that others have and are entitled to having a different opinion. Simply believing in the concept of marriage between men and women doesn't make people a bigot.
It simply means that people believe that marriage is defined as being between a man and woman.
It's not actually about hating gays despite what others would have us believe. People are pissed because a smaller group want to socially re-engineer the family unit despite the success of having a father and mother at the core families. Human societies everywhere adopted this strategy and it worked. Then recently, someone just decided that fathers and mothers are no longer important and necessary to children and their upbringing.
That's my view and opinion on this matter and I'm entitled to it. Doesn't make me a bigot. I just think that having a father and mother involved with child rearing is the model that makes the most sense.
Despite stating that Ford and others are screaming iintolerants, you have demonstrated again and again that you yourself are equally if not more intolerant. By launching personal attacks towards others with different views, opinions and beliefs, you make a mockery of the concpet of open tolerance towards diversity. You proclaim to believe in diversity but the reality is that it's YOUR beliefs that should count and not anything that's contrary to this.
A big problem with too many on the left.