Crackstarter - Gawker crowdfunding the Rob Ford crack tape: good or evil?

Isn't Balky needing help with something

No

I'm going to smoke some weed, this shit's bumming me out. RIP Rob Ford and Balky.

Great piece:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ivortossell/rob-ford-the-honest-liar#.sgOv3m1Q7

feeling this one a lot: http://tvo.org/article/current-affairs/shared-values/andray-domise-the-rob-ford-legacy-that-many-refuse-to-confront

I remember how we all laughed at him falling apart. Well, not me, it made me sick to my stomach.

"I remember when we all did that terrible thing. Well, not me, I'm awesome."

Wow, Domise is a great writer for a politician.

Just got a fundraising e-mail from Domise about a community project that started a while ago. I hope he runs in the by-election (when?), hope he wins, and I may volunteer again. But he should hold off on e-mails for at least a little while.

This is terrifying (from the Buzzfeed article above):
" hired as his personal driver a drug-dealing friend who was convicted of threatening to kill a woman, and who carried around a vial of bedbugs as a threat to his enemies; "

what's terrifying is how much support he continued to enjoy.

New Yorker piece about Ford as a blueprint for Trump. (New piece--there's a similar one that was written a year or two ago.)

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-calculated-populism-of-rob-ford

A few months ago, I should say--it only feels like two years of candidate Trump.

Robyn Doolittle, lead reporter in the crack story who went on to write Crazy Town:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/my-relationship-with-rob-ford-its-complicated/article29397563/

Older brother--who, as I'm sure I've said before on this thread, I consider even worse--says a by-election should be called immediately (because that's what Rob would have wanted), and he's "not sure" yet if he will run.

I hope, but sincerely doubt, he'll sit this one out. The seat should be contested by the people who ran last time in an impossible situation: Ford had gone public with his cancer, so everybody running against him had to almost abstain from saying anything critical out of common decency. (I don't think he was in rehab yet.) Absent Ford, I think Domise will run and win, but there was another woman in her early 20s who did quite well too. Putting the ward and the city through another Ford election and another Ford term on council is disheartening in so many ways. (If nothing else, I assume this campaign would be substantially uglier than last time.) If he does run, he'll win. Ugh.

at least if he gets in as a councilor it means he can't run for the PC leadership. i really fucking hope that party has learned it's lesson with Hudak, that they need to move towards the center and not away from it. would love to be able to consider them an option again.
on the other hand, i don't think he stands a chance with the PCs, whereas councilor would be a cakewalk for him. but - the people of ward 2 made their bed when the voted in a very obviously sick (in every sense of the word) rob ford. they've basically being going without real representation for a decade now anyways – what's another two years.

Yeah, I'm of the second view: he'd never win provincially (an election, I mean--I guess he could get the nomination), so I'd rather have him go that route.

Little Nephew Jr. running; what a drag. Part of me wants Domise to take a chance, most of me says don't bother.

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2016/05/04/byelection-to-be-held-to-fill-rob-fords-seat.html

lil guy

according to that article his birth name is Michael Stirpe

I'm glad they're rewriting the fact that it was a female reporter who investigated Rob Ford. Why have a woman be a lead character when a man could do it? Ammaright? https://t.co/Nx3holhuZW

— robyndoolittle (@robyndoolittle) April 10, 2018

srsly

caroline dhavernas is even canadian!

https://giphy.com/gifs/television-hannibal-3cXQ1pfu2Vf3O

Thermo and I are to blame.

at least if (Doug) gets in as a councilor it means he can't run for the PC leadership. i really fucking hope that party has learned it's lesson with Hudak, that they need to move towards the center and not away from it. would love to be able to consider them an option again. on the other hand, i don't think he stands a chance with the PCs...

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, April 1, 2016

Yeah, I'm of the second view: he'd never win provincially (an election, I mean--I guess he could get the nomination), so I'd rather have him go that route.

― clemenza, Saturday, April 2, 2016