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flonicky
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From Twitter:
Ray Heard @RayHeard
@nspector4 @davidakin @lorriegoldstein You Heard it here first. Rob Ford will be detained for questioning within days. Cops divided
Ray Heard @RayHeard
@IsotelusRex @nspector4 As I said, cops divided. So much so, they are sharing stuff with reporters
Ray Heard @RayHeard
@nspector4 @davidakin @lorriegoldstein You Heard it here first. Rob Ford will be detained for questioning within days. Cops divided
Ray Heard @RayHeard
@IsotelusRex @nspector4 As I said, cops divided. So much so, they are sharing stuff with reporters
newearthling
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Wow, I knwo this is only speculation, but that would be incredible if that were true: the Fords providing the contracts to 'distribution networks' of guns, drugs, and various other sundried goods, under the guise of garbage removal.
soimelk
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I agree. All the talk about he'll be a juggernaut in 2014 because there are enough people in the city who cut him slack for being a "regular guy" doesn't mesh with the numbers. For starters, he won in 2010 against a weak field, and moderated his message to win enough downtown support to post his victory. As an incumbent mayor, he's very unpopular with people not in his passionate, but definitely not-the-majority base. With today's announcement, he's essentially going to have to win every Scarborough and Etobicoke vote, which will be hard to do, unless his opponent(s) make their campaigns completely about downtown priorities.
blackballed
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Every statement about the 2014 election must be prefaced by a huge caveat about Project Brazen 2. That said, I have long wondered how Ford would react if he were to run and lose. I suspect it wouldn't be pretty and I wouldn't rule out the possibility of him litigating the result.
eyewonder
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What is Fords motivation to be Mayor?
stendhalian
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blackballed
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Doug told him to do it.
pattycakes
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A lot of people that voted for the "Gravy Train" clued in fairly quickly that Rob wasn't quite what they expected or wanted. The slate of candidates was not very inspiring, and I admit to "holding my nose" and voting for Smitherman. Hopefully, with Soknacki and Chow in the race, the choices will be much better than in 2010. Soknacki has been wooing the right leaning Scarborough vote, and I think he will look fabulous after the CIRCUS of the current administration. Confession time.
I live in Scarborough, and I think the LRT was the right choice for the economic and density reasons quoted by the experts. Soknacki also backed the LRT, and will probably grab a lot of downtown voters as a result.
newearthling
Senior Member
To re-organize the control of certain "markets" in the city. But yes, he is probably told what to do by Doug. Doug's handlers are telling both of them what to push for, or what to simply overlook.
salsa
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Adam Vaughan almost made it onto the executive committee. Damn.
Franks2000inchTV
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Would have been AMAZING if it had happened!
typezed
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He represents a definite point of view, he believes he's right, and apparently there's a clown chorus of people throughout the Tim Horton's and Kentucky Fried Chickens of Etobicoke who keep saying to him, "Rob, you're doing a great job, keep up the good work".
greenleaf
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Do the police care about political optics? I wonder if they are waiting post-Thanksgiving to make a move.
soimelk
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Scariest part of these tweets is the stuff about cops divided. Given the activities Ford has been linked to, the notion that there might be a faction in our police force who want to actively protect him from the justice system and the public is shameful. It points to certain police willing to obstruct justice for political purposes. It certainly gives credence to Enzo DiMatteo's NOW article yesterday which I was initially skeptical about.
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