MetroMan
Senior Member
I'm really interested to see how Ford gets out of this. It's too good to be true that this technicality will boot Ford from office and save Toronto from not having a Mayor and having to have City Council go around him for 2 more years. But the evidence is all there. The law has no wiggle room to show leniency in the sentence. If he's found guilty -- and he is -- then the only sentence is "removal from office". The only way around this is for the judge to find him not guilty, but doing so will raise cries of favouritism of the law for a politician.
This seems like an open and shut case. It shouldn't take more than a few days, to hear a verdict.
Now, should the Mayor vacate his seat, a new Mayor must be elected. I wonder how fast it would have to be put together. Do we not have a Mayor for a few months? Does the Deputy Mayor take over in the interim? Who would be prepared to run for Mayor on the turn of a dime like this? Shelley Carroll? Adam Vaughan? Karen Stintz? What about Ford's side? No doubt Doug Ford would step up to take his brother's job. Perhaps Giorgio Mammoliti would jump at the opportunity.
Then again, this all seems to be flying low under the radar in the media for what could potentially be an explosive outcome: Toronto's Mayor booted from office. Maybe the media know something we don't and this has an iceball's chance in hell of leading to Ford's expulsion. Lot's of questions. I can't wait for the trial.
This seems like an open and shut case. It shouldn't take more than a few days, to hear a verdict.
Now, should the Mayor vacate his seat, a new Mayor must be elected. I wonder how fast it would have to be put together. Do we not have a Mayor for a few months? Does the Deputy Mayor take over in the interim? Who would be prepared to run for Mayor on the turn of a dime like this? Shelley Carroll? Adam Vaughan? Karen Stintz? What about Ford's side? No doubt Doug Ford would step up to take his brother's job. Perhaps Giorgio Mammoliti would jump at the opportunity.
Then again, this all seems to be flying low under the radar in the media for what could potentially be an explosive outcome: Toronto's Mayor booted from office. Maybe the media know something we don't and this has an iceball's chance in hell of leading to Ford's expulsion. Lot's of questions. I can't wait for the trial.