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It's a bit frustrating that when asked the secret of Rob Ford's success Doolittle points to Ford always returning phonecalls and responding to constituent concerns. She did it last night on The National and she answered the same on Anderson Cooper a couple months ago. It's probably a prominent explanation in her book. She's the reporter closest to the story, so she'd know much better than I, but I've always thought of these as way overstated claims similar to "best mayor ever" and "a billion dollars". Reporters could have tested this, finding ten people from different parts of the city and with different concerns and seeing which ones received responses. Wouldn't have been all of them, I'm sure. I have a friend who received a call from Ford's people about a concern he'd relayed about some small problem at a community centre near Jarvis. They wanted to bring several people and media to meet my friend, so he refused, asking whey they couldn't just fix the problem. This guy hates Ford, so I don't know why he didn't play along, but he didn't.

Attend the community council meeting for Toronto - East York and you'll see the councillours there personally assisting constituents with small concerns dealing with patios, hot dog stands, fences and decks. Probably more than Ford ever did. Why do I think Ford was successful? Divisiveness, wedge issues, unattainable promises, and his lies and mythmaking being constantly legitimized and spread by reporters who have never put the claims to the test.

On another front, I'd always given more credit to Ford Sr. than he probably deserved. I'd imagined that he'd worked himself up on the presses to build his printing business. Now I see that he was a salesman who entered into the business through his social connections.
 
https://soundcloud.com/to-is-on-fire/toisonfire
blackballed said:
Private subway, Gravy train, Mark Towhey, Holyday
Deco Labels, Sue Ann Levy, North Etobicoke
Nick Kouvalis, Mike Bendixen, Oxycontin, Queen's Quay Karen
Nunziata, Mammoliti, Frank Di Giorgio

ACC F-bombs, "Wasn't there", "Hatchet job"
Florida DUI, Anger in the 905
Come to power, Pipe dreams, Up all night at Steak Queen
David Shiner, Mike Del Grande, Nakamura goodbye

T.O. is on fire
Three-in-ten believe him
So he keeps deceiving
T.O. is on fire
No we didn't light it
But we've got to fight it

Broken promise service cuts, Savings claims are just nuts
Cusimano, Campaign audit, Communist plot
All-night marathon, Budget math is dead wrong
Dead drop pick-ups in the parking lot

Read it in the Sun, Love notes from Warmington
Karen kills the subway plan, Gary Webster gets canned
Radio BS fest, Cut the Waist is a mess
Council's strained, Doug's unchained, Someone call Kouvalis

T.O. is on fire
Three-in-ten believe him
So he keeps deceiving
T.O. is on fire
No we didn't light it
But we've got to fight it

Daniel Dale incident, Cops don't buy his argument
Stupid casino drive, Drops the ball on Woodbine Live
Staff abuse, Late night calls, Wasted while at City Hall
Shiny new Escalade, Still skips the Pride parade

Peter Payman, Fake name, MacIntyre, Broken leg
Waterfront TO, Ferris wheel no-go,
Court case, Letterhead, Out of office, Back again,
15 Windsor, Bassos, Buying drugs from Sandro

T.O. is on fire
Three-in-ten believe him
So he keeps deceiving
T.O. is on fire
No we didn't light it
But we've got to fight it

New car and five grand, Phone's back in his hands,
Kipling, Dixon, Wasted at the Garrison
Shit storm in the media, Crack videomania,
Price and Sandro, Lead pipe beating Basso

Cesna in the sky, Driving while drunk and high
TPS looks away, what else do I have to say?

T.O. is on fire
Three-in-ten believe him
So he keeps deceiving
T.O. is on fire
No we didn't light it
But we've got to fight it

LCBO, KFC, Robocalls for Ainslie
Zig Zags, Ziploc, Gatorade, Vodka
Dugga, Hezza, Methadone, More than enough at home
Drinking Iceberg in the park, Russian Price after dark

Danforth stupor DUI? Mysterious alibi
Veiled threats, Porter jets, Bobbleheads, Subway debts
MIA in the ice storm, "SoE means martial law"
Every year with him's a chore, I can't take another four

T.O. is on fire
Three-in-ten believe him
So he keeps deceiving
T.O. is on fire
Until he is gone
It will still burn on and on and on and on….
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Okay, once more with feeling: https://soundcloud.com/to-is-on-fire/toisonfire. Once again thanks to blackballed for the lyrics, and thanks to mr. beagle lover for his vocals!
 
Southcore said:
I saw the clip too. It was Ford, two guys in suits, and a forth man a bit more dressed down (wearing a football jersey?) IIRC. Ford the the dressed down guy on the left of the screen, the two guys in suits on the right, all of them standing in front of a doorway. One of the suits pulls out a brass coloured flask and takes a few swigs. I feel like he passed it to the other suit beside him, but Ford definitely did not take a drink (well on the the video anyway). I had CP24 on loop for several hours that morning/afternoon, I remember it happening.
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Thank you! I was starting to feel like I was losing my mind.
 
EagleEye said:
Whoever goes tonight better take lots of notes about who was there and what was said. I hope they have good security because you'll never know how Ford nation will behave.
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It costs $40 and includes a copy of the book. I don't think any nayshuners would be willing to shell out for that. That's almost an entire vehicle registration fee!
 
OSS 117 said:
It costs $40 and includes a copy of the book. I don't think any nayshuners would be willing to shell out for that. That's almost an entire vehicle registration fee!
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I didn't mean inside, I don't expect them to pay. However, they might be outside, protesting or causing trouble.
 
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beaglelover,

Ironically, I can't find the words to express what a great job you guys did putting those lyrics to music. It's better than it ever sounded in my head.

Bravo. Thank you.
 
retailestate said:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/02/03/doug_ford_slams_new_book_as_attack_on_his_family.html

“We’re running on our record,” he said. “We have the best city in the world, we have the lowest taxes in the world, our economy is booming all under the Ford administration.”

Why do they keep reporting this crap??? Although - I do notice that they have ratcheted up the crap spewing right before every time something bad was about to happen...
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To The Star's credit, they did follow it up with this zinger:

On average, Toronto has the lowest taxes in the GTA.
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I think their reporting on it is meant to highlight the ridiculousness of it all.
 
blackballed said:
beaglelover,

Ironically, I can't find the words to express what a great job you guys did putting those lyrics to music. It's better than it ever sounded in my head.

Bravo. Thank you.
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blackballed-so happy you approve! Would be amazing if there was a video we could post to youtube-unfortunately not my strength! Again, thanks blackballed for the words that started it all!
 
I don't think the Sun's published a single article mentioning the Fords today. I wonder why. I mean, "Woman accused of putting feces in husband's IV line" is pretty riveting stuff, but the woman and the feces are both in Arizona. How about some news a little closer to home?
 
@80sDougFord:

A Billy Joel cover? Billy Joel could suck a bowling ball thru a 20 ft. hosepipe. We still got @singjennyjames . That chick rocks! #topoli
 
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