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PinkLucy said:
Because Fords are interchangeable. But Ward 2 voters won't care, they will just keep voting Ford.
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As long as the last name is "Ford". Even a ventriloquist's dummy could get win in Ward Two, if its name is "Ford".

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the lemur said:
Unless it was ... find one billion in debt, make it disappear from the books, voilà, one billion "saved".
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Sure, use Fordian math against me!:D
 
JWBF said:
This is the individual (I have a better term but such profanity if frowned upon) who campaigned for a subway that would do practically nothing for the people in his ward... scratch that, it would increase the ride time due to another decrease of bus service to pay for the Fordian delusions.

Let Trudy, and the neo-Harperites deal with him.
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No doubt Cho will come down with an acute case of stepasidus sometime between the party deadline and the close of registration, leaving Doug no choice but to run for the seat.
 
From The Star at this link:

Raymond Cho and Doug Ford team up in Scarborough to take on provincial Liberals

Councillor seeks to represent Progressive Conservatives in Scarborough-Rouge River riding

Raymond Cho and Doug Ford are teaming up to take a part of Scarborough away from Ontario’s Liberals.

Cho, a local councillor in the Scarborough-Rouge River area since 1991, says he’ll seek the riding’s Progressive Conservative nomination on June 4.

And former Etobicoke councillor Doug Ford – rumoured to be interested in running there for the PCs himself – wants to be Cho’s campaign manager.

“I actually urged him to run, he’s a very popular man, and he urged me to run,” Cho said Thursday, May 19.

The Scarborough councillor, who ran for the federal New Democratic party in 1988, and later joined the Liberals, surprised many by becoming the riding’s PC candidate in 2014.

He finished third, and when PC Leader Patrick Brown asked him this spring to try again in a byelection to replace Cho’s longtime Liberal rival Bas Balkissoon, Cho refused.

But on Thursday, Cho said the party kept asking, and a local poll for the PCs suggested Cho had the best chance to win the riding for the Tories.

That, coupled with Ford’s promise of support, Cho said, has changed his mind.

“It’s a good offer,” he said, recalling just a few weeks ago he invited Ford to breakfast and tried again to get him to run in Scarborough-Rouge River.

“I thought I convinced him,” said Cho, who was seen by some colleagues as left-leaning in the past and may seem an unlikely partner for the right-leaning Ford.

Both, however, have their loyal supporters in Cho’s constituency, where Ford’s 2014 mayoral campaign did well.

“Doug Ford has a lot of respect for me, and vice versa. We’ve been good friends,” Cho said.

Balkissoon’s sudden resignation as the local MPP in March gave Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne six months to call a byelection.

The PC nomination next weekend may be contested, but though the provincial riding association promised to release a list of candidates by late Friday, there are so far no declared PC rivals for Cho to beat.

Born in 1936, Cho tried to seek the provincial seat as a Liberal in 2005, but was denied the chance.

Balkissoon had held the riding since, but though the appeal of Liberals in Scarborough-Rouge River has deep roots, Cho said he’s confident enough people are finally getting tired of the provincial party and its recent scandals.

Cho said he supports extending the proposed Crosstown East light-rail transit line north from University of Toronto Scarborough to Malvern Town Centre.

He also repeated his support for a Sheppard subway extension as far east as Meadowvale Road, despite a lack of funds for the project. The province has planned and funded another LRT line, the Sheppard East, in the same corridor, but two years ago it delayed the project.

Brown hasn’t said he’ll fund a subway extension on Sheppard – always a touchstone project for Ford and his brother Rob Ford – but Cho said Brown “listens” so he would consider it.

“I’m all for subway, and will fight for subway once I get elected,” said Cho.

Neethan Sha, who ran against both Cho and Balkissoon in 2014, and also ran against Cho in two municipal elections, seeking Cho’s council seat, is set to be acclaimed the riding’s New Democratic candidate Thursday, May 26.

The riding’s Liberals will nominate their candidate Sunday, June 5.
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Groan... The puppeteer Doug testing out the provincial waters. Hopefully, the voters would vote for the NDP (Neethan Sha, at the moment) if they don't like the Liberals.
 
The Toronto Sun's coverage of this includes these two quotes from Doug:

“I have to focus with the family and Rob’s kids,” he said. “I wouldn’t have time to be going full steam ahead. That’s the first part. Second part is I don’t think it would be fair to the people of Scarborough if I ran out there and then a couple years later moved to Etobicoke North.”

“I just encourage everyone to get out there and send a clear message to this Liberal government that the gravy train is going to stop,” he said. “And I’ll be down there in a couple years to make sure I help that gravy train stop.”​

Has he ever been quite this clear that he intends to run provincially?
 
Raymond has probably been introduced to Doug's Night Shift to co-manage his campaign. No more Gravy Trains! Just Subways!
 
Roy's Square said:
The Toronto Sun's coverage of this includes these two quotes from Doug:

“I have to focus with the family and Rob’s kids,” he said. “I wouldn’t have time to be going full steam ahead. That’s the first part. Second part is I don’t think it would be fair to the people of Scarborough if I ran out there and then a couple years later moved to Etobicoke North.”

“I just encourage everyone to get out there and send a clear message to this Liberal government that the gravy train is going to stop,” he said. “And I’ll be down there in a couple years to make sure I help that gravy train stop.”​

Has he ever been quite this clear that he intends to run provincially?
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I suspect he's telling Brown more than he's talking to us.
 
animatronic said:
I suspect he's telling Brown more than he's talking to us.
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If he can deliver on this maybe they'll let him sit at the adult table and run closer to home in Etobicoke. They don't seem to mind taking the Ford money, but having one as a candidate is another story entirely.
 
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