NOW Toronto: If you love this town, you’ll leave, Mr. Mayor
If you love this town, you’ll leave, Mr. Mayor
By Michael Hollett
If punchline mayor Rob Ford loved this city half as much as he claims to, he would make the only choice available to him, one clear to the rest of the world as this sad soap opera unfolds: he must resign.
In this shameful saga, each day is more unbelievable than the last. Ford was elected to “clean up” City Hall; can he really claim to be fulfilling his promises as he turns this great city into an international laughing stock?
Remember the Mel Lastman “scandal” when the then mayor got his picture taken with a Hell’s Angel? At least he wasn’t behaving like one.
David Miller got his hand slapped for leaving his lights on during Earth Hour. And what about poor Adam Giambrone, who dropped out of the mayoralty race against Ford for having office sex? Seems almost quaint now: a little backroom banging – no crack, no crowds, no drunken roaming through City Hall screaming obscenities, clutching a half-empty bottle of booze and smacking staffers. ...................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=195207
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and is actually the old Toronto core, surrounded by the urban-sprawl suburbs of Etobicoke, North York, East York, Scarborough and York. The city core is very, very liberal, while the suburbs are conservative. Unfortunately, Toronto isn't just Toronto anymore.
Here was the vote distribution map from the 2010 Toronto municipal election.
That, and as marmar said upthread, the fact that the two left candidates split the vote to a certain extent. And, the Toronto mayorship tends to pendulum back and forth between conservatives and liberals. Toronto had just had 7 years of liberal David Miller.
Who knows what's going to happen now. There's no mechanism for City Council to remove Ford as mayor. That can only be done by the Province, who is probably not going to get involved. And Ford is probably too stubborn and stupid to resign.
Sid
