Oh yeah... Like the infamous bomb threat. Doug Ford was immensely disliked by city hall staff and his bullying and threatening manners were well known. He is a thoroughly unpleasant man who lacks manners and empathy.
Yeah, it was the bomb threats I was mostly thinking of - and don't forget there was more than one; two at least, and maybe three? I honestly can't remember - but there were other shady and extremely lawless episodes 'mysteriously' surrounding the Fords, not least of all the violent turn that accompanied the search for Pea Brain's crack tape. Anyone remember that? We still don't know* who was responsible for that vicious home invasion that took place during that entire period, and will probably never find out...officially, anyway. And didn't someone get thrown off a balcony? Weren't there assaults on some people in prison? Wasn't Thug a drug dealer in his misspent youth? Do the rest of you remember this stuff or am I imagining it?
*(We may not
know, but we can certainly guess in whose interests it was that Fatty's crack tape be found and quietly suppressed.)
As for Thug's treatment of ordinary staffers at City Hall and elsewhere, I don't doubt he's absolutely horrible to have as a boss - I'll bet the people at Deco could tell stories - but I'd be willing to bet that during his political career, he's treated people on the same level as him as though they're his flunkies, and possibly even those who are higher than he is on the food chain. He's a belligerent, bullying asshole who comes from a monied background. That's how his kind generally behave. They honestly can't help themselves. And he's a moron.
My vote was for change, not "protest" and clearly most of ontario felt the same way.(liberals got decimated so hard the NDP took their place)
Well, if you were naive enough to vote for the Tories hoping for "change," you certainly didn't get it. The Libs and the Cons tend to march in lockstep when it comes to economic matters. Perhaps you don't recall how Wynne was scampering around as Premiere, privatizing everything in sight? Or how she privatized Hydro, hired some corporate asshole to run it, paying him a vastly inflated salary to do the same job as his predecessor in the process, and then seemed genuinely flabbergasted when that little move wasn't wildly popular with ordinary voters? And you expected different from the Conservatives, never even mind a Conservative Party run by a cheap crook like Thug Ford?
And also voted against Horwath...or at least, stopped short of committing to Horwath as a preferable anti-Wynne alternative (for your usual reasons: enduring memories of 1990-95, "stop the socialist hordes", the limited infrastructure that comes w/being an eternal third-party force, etc). Say what you will about the PCs, but they carried "alternate natural governing party" validity that overrode Doug's personal limitations.
Yeah, agreed...that all played into it as well. Of course, the people who tend to solely blame the NDP for the state of the economy due to the single government they headed at Queen's Park in the 90's don't tend to utter the words "Reagan," Thatcher" or "Mulroney" whenever they make these claims. As for Horwath, she may be well meaning, but she's been about as effective as a limp dish rag over the past few years. She should stand aside and let somebody else have a shot at being Leader.
