AlvinofDiaspar
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It would be interesting to see how the Fords use Mikey as the proxy to work the TDSB.
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It would be interesting to see how the Fords use Mikey as the proxy to work the TDSB.
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pattycakes
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It's funny you should say that sweetlou. A reporter asked Rob last night if he thought he could have won based on Doug's numbers and he didn't deny it. He started to say something, caught himself, and then repeated his "Doug did a great job" speech.
Videodrome
Senior Member
Rob said that he goes back for tests tomorrow to see if the tumor has shrunk. That could be a very grim appointment and set up a by-election very soon.
pud99
Senior Member
No. (One of the CH reporters referred to him on Twitter as a castrato.)
GavinTheAlmighty
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I can confirm that a ton of Domise signs were stolen and/or vandalized multiple times, to the point that Andray straight-up stopped putting them on peoples' lawns for their own safety. I don't know how much that accounts for, but even last night, Andray's signs were torn up and tossed over the side of the road on Kipling Avenue.
Visibility and name recognition is key in these elections (hence the number of reprehensible incumbents who walked right back into their own seats), and there was a concerted effort to silence Andray via destruction/theft of the signs.
saskganesh
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On average they were, but yeah, looks like I'm eating some crow for breakfast today.
animatronic
Senior Member
At this point we just need Rob to survive/not get Juded out long enough that council can make an appointment vs. a by-election. Allow for some "cooling off" from this election so Mikey the Mute can't ride in on Rob's campaign hearse.
At this point I'm pretty much convinced that we need ranked ballots, term limits and party politics. This bullshit name recognition that everyone seems to ride in on is getting ridiculous.
At this point I'm pretty much convinced that we need ranked ballots, term limits and party politics. This bullshit name recognition that everyone seems to ride in on is getting ridiculous.
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Riverdale Rink Rat
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Six months, max. And that's only if they have a semi-successful surgery. He's toast.
I expect we'll see some kind of Ward 2 fiefdom by-election in the spring, although I'm betting it's not Doug -- he seems to think he has bigger fish to fry. Mikey?
As odd and unbelievable as it seems, I think Doug did better than Rob would have. Apparently lying is ok for Ford Nation, but ongoing substance abuse issues probably turned some Rob voters away. How so many people can support either of these reprehensible individuals given all of the facts that we know about them (or elect Mutey for that matter) is beyond me.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Randy? The 4Ks? Anyways, at this point the heat should be kept on Deco - it's the meal ticket.
That might be balanced out with the natural "charm" that RoFo got - his brother is too reptilian in that regard. Though increasingly I am of the mind that you can have a vegetable running with a Ford name and it'd still get ~33% of the votes.
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Videodrome
Senior Member
Six months sounds accurate.
Not Mikey. He has to be a trustee now.
YPQ
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Not in bad taste at all. You're not wishing, just speculating. If I had to do the same, I'd give him less than that. 12 - 18 months perhaps. Again, not wishing - I'd wish for him to see the light & get well, live another 25 years, STFU and stop being an unrepentant douchebag & an insufferably bigoted prick. Unfortunately, our wishes don't factor into this and it's "up to the man upstairs" or whatever the proper NightScrawler syntax would be.
At this point, my beef is more with the horde of Ford Nationals that buy into this freakshow than with the bobbleheads themselves. The ranked ballot initiative can't move fast enough for me.
DeathSilver
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Yeah. Most likely prednisone.
AlvinofDiaspar
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The city should make a point and send him a bill for the by-election - how many hours of transit would that have paid for?
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GavinTheAlmighty
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You raise a very good point. There's no universe where Mikey doesn't resign as trustee and run in a Ward 2 by-election. Trustee is just a position to keep him warm while the family waits to push him into the big pond. He'll almost certainly run in 2018.
Unfortunately, ranked ballots wouldn't have desperately helped Ward 2 this time around. Rob Ford won a majority there. It's gross, but it's democracy.
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