Bake 'em away, Toogie

[Flannel Boy]

41-2

The vote count on a motion to remove Ford’s emergency management powers and his ability to influence any of the city’s accountability officers—notably, the integrity commissioner who will investigate the mayor’s conduct

[Great Rumbler]

41-2

The vote count on a motion to remove Ford’s emergency management powers and his ability to influence any of the city’s accountability officers—notably, the integrity commissioner who will investigate the mayor’s conduct

Hmm...I wonder who the two opposed votes were from?

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Rob Ford and his brother.

[close]

[Great Rumbler]

According to various accounts, Ford allegedly did cocaine and/or oxycontin while at a bar that night. On the way to the bar, Ransom said multiple other staffers told him Ford "took a cab to the bar and started calling the taxi driver a Paki, threw business cards at him and made mocking fake language sounds."

The cabbie wasn't the only person Ford allegedly insulted that night. At the bar, Ransom said Ford "stumbled around the dance floor and fell down." Ransom said staff eventually "covered up" Ford with some coats and "escorted" him into a taxi back to City Hall "with the help of security." Once he was back at City Hall, investigators said Ransom described Ford, an independent who has been affiliated with the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, going off on a "tangent" where he insulted multiple staffers who were members of the Liberal Party. According to the documents, Ransom said Ford called the staffers "Liberal bitches" and "Liberal hacks." police said Ransom claimed Ford eventually "pushed" one of the staffers "into a wall" and "charged at" another.

Investigators also wrote that Ford's former special assistant of communications, Isaac Ransom, told them he "once received a pocket dial and could hear Mayor FORD peeing in the background." Police said Ford's ex-chief of staff, Mark Towhey told them he "received numerous 'pocket dials' from the Mayor" and that Ford "was pretty infamous for these types of calls." Towhey allegedly described one instance where he "stayed on the line for about five minutes" and "it was obvious that the Mayor was out partying and drinking and sounded pretty intoxicated."

The documents indicate Fickel told police that Ford once asked him to come over to his house and fix a computer. Fickel said he was on a date at the time and left his girlfriend, Victoria Hills, in a car outside. However, Fickel said Ford insisted on inviting Hills in after a few minutes because he "thought it would impress her."

"FICKEL did not want to bring HILLS inside because the house looked like it was falling apart and messy. There was heavy cigarette smoke and clothes everywhere in the house," police wrote in their summary of the interview with Fickel.

Ransom also said Ford "would try to get out of doing ethnic media events, meetings with international politicians and ambassadors." Sadly, the documents didn't go into detail about Ford's reasons for avoiding these "ethnic" events. After February, Ford apparently also could not be found at nighttime public events. In one of his interviews with police, Towhey said he " removed all evening events from the Mayor's schedule" after an incident where Ford allegedly showed up to a military ball intoxicated with his children in tow and was asked to leave.

Several staffers allegedly described Ford using marijuana including Towhey who said another staffer told him he once "found a marihuana cigarette in the Mayor's desk" at City Hall. Police said the joint was "already gone" when the staffer tried to show it to him. The documents also describe a few stories of the mayor's conduct after he allegedly smoked weed.

According to Ford's former special assistant Nico Fidani, vodka is the mayor's "favourite drink." Another former assistant, Chris Fickel, told investigators it was a "regular occurrence" for Ford to ask "young staffers" to buy him alcohol and that these requests could happen "at any time during the day." Fickel indicated that Ford had a preferred vodka brand and "always wanted Iceberg vodka." Iceberg, which is made from water harvested from melting ice in the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, is billed as "the smoothest, best tasting vodka."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/five-incredible-details-from-the-rob-ford-document-drop

[Howard Alan Treesong]

[Joe Molotov]

Well then.

[Polari]

wtf Canada

[Boogie]

In his final chance to speak before council voted to strip him of his powers, he compared council's actions to saddam Hussein invading Kuwait, and that he was America.

[Human Snorenado]

Does anyone else want a Rob Ford channel?  Just me? 

[Yeti]

I want an animal-documentary style series where they follow him around and comment on his actions in hushed tones so as not to alert him to their presence.

[Yeti]

 

[Takao]

Does anyone else want a Rob Ford channel?  Just me?

Canada's equivalent of Fox News gave him a TV show last week but canceled it after 1 episode because it cost too much.

[Brehvolution]

[Dickie Dee]

[Boogie]

http://m.thestar.com/#!/news/rob-ford-was-targeted-by-gang-members-in-blackmail-plot-police-documents-say/2ce4a9bbc9282d9318b27724f3e0c9d7

Highlights: to no one's surprise, Ford did not smoke crack just once.

Also, while gawker was willing to pay 200k for the video, Ford offered 5k and a car.  What a cheapskate.

Finally, he also allegedly smoked heroin.  Which, amazingly, at this point is quite the "yawn-worthy" revelation in this whole saga.

[T234]

5K and a car? Cheapskate indeed. I thought his brother was supposed to be bringing BALES of hash from Morocco since the mid-80s? Canadian criminals are going downhill from the 90s-early-oughts. Must be the PLUMMETING price of cannabis, the main underworld export.

[Boogie]

So far as I am aware, the info is that Dougie was just a mid-level dealer in the 80s.

Today, their income is from the legit family business, which does like 100-200 million in revenue per year.

And Canadian crooks are still doing just fine producing and exporting meth and ecstasy, thankyouverymuch

[Himu]

You can smoke heroin? Thank God I'm in the dark about this bullshit.

[nudemacusers]

You can smoke heroin? Thank God I'm in the dark about this bullshit.

you can smoke anything if you put your mind to it. People crush up pills and smoke them.

[Himu]

Jesus.The only thing I've smoked are cigs and weed and I want to keep it that way.

[TakingBackSunday]

salvia is something

if you wanna feel like a lego block

[nudemacusers]

salvia is terrible

you see some shit, though

[recursivelyenumerable]

I am reading the Wikipedia article on this guy and what

[T234]

So far as I am aware, the info is that Dougie was just a mid-level dealer in the 80s.

Today, their income is from the legit family business, which does like 100-200 million in revenue per year.

And Canadian crooks are still doing just fine producing and exporting meth and ecstasy, thankyouverymuch

One of those two things is not like the other in terms of safety and addiction profile. Meth is the scourge of the modern world. Except North Korea.

[Great Rumbler]

So far as I am aware, the info is that Dougie was just a mid-level dealer in the 80s.

Today, their income is from the legit family business, which does like 100-200 million in revenue per year.

And Canadian crooks are still doing just fine producing and exporting meth and ecstasy, thankyouverymuch

Meth is the scourge of the modern world. Except North Korea.

Actually, meth addiction is becoming a huge problem in North Korea:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/30/world/asia/north-korea-drugs/

[T234]

THATSTHEJOKE.JPG

A few weeks ago, when they caught 40 POUNDS to be smuggled from DPRK to the United States AS A TASTER, that's when I realized it was a big fucking deal.

To put it into perspective, 40 pounds of meth is a couple million dollars. 40 pounds of High-Times Grade weed is 65-80,000 depending how much your connect likes you. 40 pounds of LSD is about 1.8 BILLION-WITH-A-B DOLLARS and is 179,200,000 doses, not that far from one hit for every grown man and woman in the United States.

[brawndolicious]

How much meth would an average addict need to keep out of withdrawal?

[Boogie]

THATSTHEJOKE.JPG

A few weeks ago, when they caught 40 POUNDS to be smuggled from DPRK to the United States AS A TASTER, that's when I realized it was a big fucking deal.

To put it into perspective, 40 pounds of meth is a couple million dollars. 40 pounds of High-Times Grade weed is 65-80,000 depending how much your connect likes you. 40 pounds of LSD is about 1.8 BILLION-WITH-A-B DOLLARS and is 179,200,000 doses, not that far from one hit for every grown man and woman in the United States.

I, for one, am glad that you are here to educate us on the economics of the illicit drug trade, Thor.

[T234]

High times used to have a price guide.

[Takao]

A Toronto Star reporter is suing Ford because he implied the reporter was a pedophile on national TV. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-star-reporter-to-sue-rob-ford-for-libel/article15932345/

[Boogie]

Also, his brother, city councillor Doug Ford, showed up at a public housing complex yesterday and just started handing out twenty dollar bills to people.

When other councillors started going "umm, vote buying much?" he just goes "everyone knows the Fords aren't corrupt."

....I swear, this guy is the white Clay Davis.

[Human Snorenado]

So sad, brehs

[Takao]

this fucking bumbaclut

[Great Rumbler]

We had it all wrong guys. Mayor Rob Ford is Christ Farley.

[Boogie]

  ROB FORD STILL DOING CRACK, NEWS AT 11.


http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/rob-ford-takes-leave-as-new-drug-video-emerges/article18354671/?service=mobile&post_id=28100639_10102547843278722#_=_

[Boogie]

[Joe Molotov]

Is he the Prime Minister yet?

[Dickie Dee]

Rob Ford: One wild night in March
Fresh from Hollywood, two months before rehab, Rob Ford and his felon pals hook up again for drink, drugs and astonishing invective

By: Kevin Donovan Investigations, Published on Fri May 09 2014
 
Loaded behind the wheel of his Cadillac Escalade, high on his Jimmy Kimmel interview, Mayor Rob Ford is winding through the streets of his city.

It’s two days after Ford’s celebrated appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, two months before rehab.

In the course of this March 5 night, Ford will bring together two of his closest felon friends, beating one and accepting drugs from another; go on a racist tirade; and boast that he often has sex with “girls” in front of his wife, according to an account of the evening. He will suggest one man could have sex with her, a source has told the Star, recalling Ford’s words.

The information for this story comes from interviews and from the Star’s review of audio tape that captures a portion of the evening. The Star did not pay for the tape. Ford could not be reached by the Star for comment, as has been the case since the Star began its investigation more than a year ago. His lawyer Dennis Morris would not comment on the majority of the allegations in this story.

(Ford is said to be in a rehab program seeking help for alcohol addiction. The Star has heard that Ford has been spotted at three different rehabs in the past week, including CAMH in Toronto, Homewood in Guelph and Greenstone in Bala, about a 40-minute drive from the Ford family cottage.)

Ford had taken a private jet to Los Angeles for the March 3 Kimmel show with brothers Doug and Randy. Viewers were treated to Ford largely being mocked by the talk show host.

What follows is an account from people present of Ford’s behaviour on a chilly but not freezing night soon after the mayor’s chartered jet returns him from Los Angeles to Toronto:

Ford’s perpetually shiny Escalade is moving through icy streets with Ford at the wheel. Ford is wasted; on what, is unclear. It’s about 8 p.m.

Beside him in the car is Bruno Bellissimo, Ford’s friend from high school. Close by in the neighbourhood is Sandro Lisi. In one of the many fascinating turns of the Ford story, these three men were back where they started a year previous, during the infamous Garrison Ball incident of Feb. 23, 2013. On that night, Ford, Lisi and Bellissimo headed down to the military ball with Ford’s young children in the backseat. His choice of companions then included Lisi, with a record of threatening to kill young women, and Bellissimo, a crack addict, who shortly after the ball beat up his mother and was convicted of assault and threatening death. Ford was ejected from that year’s Garrison Ball for being impaired.


Back to March 5, 2014, two days after Kimmel.

Ford is behind the wheel and hammered. One constituent he calls that night recalls Ford slurring his words.

The Star has heard audio of Ford and Bellissimo talking and both are slurring. (The Star has interviewed people who say it is nothing for Ford to down a 40-ouncer of vodka. The man who recorded the audio of Ford at Sully Gorman’s bar two weeks ago told the Star Ford’s ability to drink shots of tequila is “incredible.”)

Ford has two ways of communicating as he drives — his cellular phone and his Onstar device, a General Motors product that acts as a cellphone. During one call as he drives that night, Ford is recorded as saying the following about Jews, blacks and Italians:

“Nobody sticks up for people like I do, every f---ing k--e, n----r, f---ing w-p, d-go, whatever the race. Nobody does. I’m the most racist guy around. I’m the mayor of Toronto.”

On a roll, Ford continues to spew invective that may be the worst published yet. At one point he makes a rude comment about his mother.

His tirade is interrupted by a call from Dennis Morris, Ford’s lawyer. Morris voices immediate concern that Ford is driving and tells him to pull over. Ford does not respond kindly. Morris suggests the police may be tailing him.

“The cops are f---ing right behind me. They are, it’s fine,” Ford says.

Morris tells Ford he cannot be driving drunk.

To which Ford responds, “Yeah, you never had your f---ing kids taken away.”

(Asked this week if he recalled the incident and telephoning Ford, Morris said he believes his client was parked at the time.)

Ford eventually pulls into a park near his home in Etobicoke, according to an account of the evening. Lisi arrives, driving his black Range Rover. (Lisi is facing drug trafficking and extortion charges in connection with an alleged attempt to retrieve the embarrassing crack video. No accomplice has been charged. The Star reported recently that at another late-night event, Ford pummelled Lisi, his friend, until Lisi cried.)

According to an account of the evening, drugs are present as the men meet in the park. An hour passes. Ford and Bellissimo drive to Ford’s home, with Lisi in tow driving his Range Rover. From here on, there is no known audio recording of the night.
The front walkway to the Ford house leads to a modest front door. At about 10 p.m. that night, Ford and his pals arrive. Ford has a bag of McDonald’s food in his hand. Ford jiggles the front door and then kicks the door open. He, Lisi, Bellissimo and another man step in.

“Don’t worry guys, my kids aren’t here,” Ford says.

For no apparent reason, Ford turns on Bellissimo and hits him squarely in the face twice — boom, boom — forgetting that he has a bagful of Big Macs in his hand. Burgers and fries scatter. Ford makes Bellissimo pick them up.

Down the stairs they go. Ford’s wife Renata is on the couch, a tired lounger that has been described to the Star by paramedics and firefighters who have attended calls at the house over the past two years. Renata is smoking a joint.

“You’re a f---ing idiot,” Renata says.

Enraged, Ford rummages for his Don Bosco coaching jacket. “It’s where I keep my weed,” he tells people in the room. Ford turns on his wife, screaming that she has taken his drugs. Standing there quietly are Lisi and Bellissimo.

To a visitor, Ford says, almost offhanded, “You can f--- her if you want, in front of me.”

Nobody speaks. The comment is ignored by Ford’s wife. Men in the room are shocked.

“It’s okay,” Ford burbles. “She lets me f--k girls in front of her all the time.”

Eyes flicked upward, to the rest of the house.

“It’s okay, my kids are not home,” Ford repeats.

For the next two hours Ford never stops moving. He paces the dingy room, back and forth. Lisi says little, checking his phone from time to time.

Ford drinks and smokes a joint. He speaks Jamaican patois, reminiscent of his turn at the Steak Queen restaurant in January, another night when he was out in north Etobicoke with Lisi.

Still popping back and forth, Ford invites people to punch him. “I’m jacked,” Ford tells the men as he flexes his muscles.

After a while, Ford and Lisi disappear into a small room. When they come out, Ford, looking around his dismal basement, complains that his brothers Doug and Randy “throw and flash their money around.” Ford says he never does.

“But taking that private jet down to L.A. was nice,” Ford adds. “I am going to get me one of those.”

Somebody asks Ford how he got into the U.S., given his admission of smoking crack.

“The customs guy who came on the plane, he recognized me!” Ford replies.

The night continues. Ford, who notoriously and allegedly grabbed the butt of a female political rival at the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee Action Party in 2013, is one day away from that event again.

“Aw s--t,” Ford says as the night wears on, his wife still sitting on the couch smoking. “I have to go to that f---ing CJPAC s--t tomorrow night.”

He attends the CJPAC event the next day.

Damn, might as well have just bolded the whole thing,

[Boogie]

Still not Prime Minister, Joe.

[Boogie]

also:  holy fuck the Star just does not give a shit about protecting its sources.  That article is written in such a sloppy, obvious manner that it doesn't matter that whoever fed that info is kept un-named, that dude is burnt.

[Great Rumbler]

That article is written in such a sloppy, obvious manner that it doesn't matter that whoever fed that info is kept un-named, that dude is burnt.

Probably not, I doubt Rob Ford can even remember anything that happened that night.

[Joe Molotov]

My favorite part of the article.

“Aw s--t,” Ford says as the night wears on, his wife still sitting on the couch smoking. “I have to go to that f---ing CJPAC s--t tomorrow night.”

He attends the CJPAC event the next day.

[benjipwns]

It'll be a shame if this guy doesn't get Marion Barry style longevity.

[SpeedStats]

Well, I don't think he can get Marion Barry-style longevity if he is in poor health.

What happened a few weeks ago was that Rob Ford was diagnosed with an abdominal tumour and had a biopsy (and pathology results take at least a week to get through).  They don't know if it's benign or malignant, or if it is malignant--if it has metathesized (ie: spread to other parts of the body).  So now he's out of the mayoral race.

The thing about the Fords is that they think they're the Kennedys of Canada or some shit, but they're more comparable to the Bushes, I guess?  The Ford kids' father was in provincial politics as a Progressive Conservative. 

So now...
- Rob Ford's brother, Doug Ford Jr., is now running for mayor because Rob Ford's health can't take a mayoral race.
- their nephew, Mike Ford, was running for a city councillor spot and "decided" to drop out of that race
- BUT Rob Ford has now decided to run for that city councillor spot instead.  That city councillor spot was Doug Ford Jr's spot, and also Rob Ford's old spot before he became the mayor.
- Mike Ford is now running for a spot on the school board

Doug Ford isn't as likeable as his brother, and he probably has a bit more of a temper.  He's also a homophobe, doesn't like autistic kids, never answers his phone or responds to his constituents, and isn't sympathetic towards people with handicaps.  Most of the Fords are cut from the same cloth, basically.  And he sold weed in high school but that's not really an issue, and that stuff happened a long time ago.  His attitude is more concerning than that.  He also doesn't know what racism means.

Really sucks that Rob Ford got taken out like that.  I think his politics are dumb and I think he's done some embarrassing stuff, but it sucks that it ends for him like that.  I feel really bad for his kids.

It's silly that they're treating Toronto like a monarchy or fiefdom, though.  All of that "passing the torch" crap they kept going on about makes my eyes roll.

I dunnoooooooooooooooo.  The whole family is crazy.  I guess a good comparison would be that Doug Ford Jr. is the Jeb Bush to Rob Ford's Dubya.

[Boogie]

Good summary.

Crazy week.  And that's not mentioning Mike Tyson. 

[SpeedStats]

I didn't see the Mike Tyson thing, lol.  I was probably at work.



http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2194279-mike-tyson-explodes-on-canadian-talk-show-host-after-rob-ford-question

Mike Tyson Calls Rob Ford 'The Greatest Mayor In Toronto's History'

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/09/09/mike-tyson-rob-ford-toronto_n_5792678.html

 

[chronovore]

I just keep thinking that Chris Farley faked his death so he could run in politics, but still couldn't get the monkey off his back.