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Controversy after controversy... This guy is about the take the city down. Has it ever happened that a Mayor was thrown out of office? If not, he should be the first!

From giving people the middle finger to talking on the cell and driving to swearing at Police to screwing up the city....

Should his term be ended?

He is constantly being attacked by those who lost the election. They are furious about it, and I don't mean the other candidates.

Here is what I mean:

The police tapes have not been released yet, however described here is what happened that led to the phone call (description starts about 3 minutes in).

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/feat ... 4552563001

Blah, blah, blah, the pinkos are bitter.

It's much easier to spend money that you don't have. Just ask Greece.

Toronto residence get more services for less taxes than the rest of the country. Hence the massive debt. It is time for the pinkos to grow up and stop crying like the babies they are.

I guess you forgot about Mel Lastman and his Crazy Wife... The Kleptomaniac!

Or the oval office incident?

This is politics, these guy's are messed up people, just like everyone else in the world. At least he's entertaining and maybe he will save Toronto some money. I think he's interesting and want to see if he's going to save $$$ and how much.

Frankly, I think Ford is part of the reason Hudak didn't win the provincial election, and so as far as I am concerned I wish Ford the best of health a long time in the office of mayor.

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Liberals are so misguided it's incredible. If you think Toronto could continue down it's path of leftist waste you are a fool.

So, Sandman, is it your contention that, up to this point, Ford has saved the city of Toronto some money?

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Gasp! Everyone knows that politicians should be held to a standard none of us would ever achieve. The man is clearly out of control!

This is an unfair statement, it's still to early to tell, you have to give him more time. He has not had enough time in office to make any impact. If after 2 years, we see nothing then he's an idoit. Time will tell, for now it's a waiting game.

Regardless, Toronto is still way better off with Ford than with Miller.

Is he any worse than half the Liberal or NDP candidates who keep getting votes?

Pay attention comrad. Savings have been had and there is much more to come. The good news is that there won't be any more million dollar toilets.

As they themselves clearly admit, the standard "conservative/republican/right wing" gameplan is to first get people comfortable with their government, then reduce income to the government, in a permanent way if possible, to starve the beast. Then, once that is done, since people don't want to pay higher taxes, even if it's just a reversion to what they were paying before, they are able to get support for spending cuts that otherwise would be unsellable.

This is how the Harper government, for example, is playing a very successful long game. In their case it's not just the tax decreases, but the TFSA and it's growing effect over time that will starve the beast.

I suspect Rob Ford's key problem is that he didn't wait for people to become comfortable with his government before jumping to the next step, and he didn't approach it as starving the beast because he kept floating all kinds of spending on things that aren't a priority with the electorate (like Ferris wheels). Between those two things he lost support from the centrists AND the purist conservatives so couldn't make the unsellable spending cuts sellable. Plus, he kind of screwed up his cutting of taxes to starve the beast by then running to another level of government and asking for money.

I'm sure the handlers are waiting to swoop in out of the wings and pull him back on course, and I think you'll find he'll be a little closer to gameplan by the end of his term. And I wouldn't be surprised to see they had privatized garbage and sold the zoo by then... although I doubt you'll see many library closures

Keep in mind, that's just my guess based on how the conservative movement has lately been playing the long game and I'm assuming they will step in. If they leave him to keep putting his foot in it, the whole council might move against him and make him fairly irrelevant. He really does seem to be confused with how much power he actually does yield... after all, he's the f****** mayor, bitches!

The guy is human, and if I was accosted by some stranger in the morning on my driveway, I'd be pissed too. Don't we all use profanities? I bet there are some on this board who are white collar by profession and University educated, but who also verbally abuse retail staff, telephone service people from Bell or Telus, or service advisors at an auto shop when they don't get their way.

However, I wouldn't have gone as far as call 911 unless I was in danger, and definitely I would not have went Prima Donna as he allegedly did.

I think this is a case of the sore-losing lefties relentlessly going after him, and if it is, I'm sorry, but the people of Toronto who voted spoke with their votes. I hope Rob Ford continues to privatize more services.