Alright, so the mayor of Toronto recently faced some allegations about being a crackhead. This is a list of shit that makes said allegations not look totally ludicrous :P Full list is at this link, but I listed a few of the ones that stood out for me.
http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/05/17/rob_ford_42_remarkable_moments_from_toronto_mayors_career.html
26. July 2011: Ignoring a personal plea from Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke, whose late son was gay, Ford skips the Pride parade to spend time with his family at their cottage. He also skips every other event at the 10-day festival.
32: August 2010: Ford says he has the “same thoughts” as a Wendell Brereton, a pastor and city council candidate who believes same-sex marriage can “dismantle” democratic civilization and who says on his website that his “kind of Toronto doesn’t parade immorality and call it pride.” Upon receiving the pastor’s endorsement, Ford says he too supports “traditional marriage.”
38. June 2006: During a debate on HIV/AIDS prevention spending, Ford says, according to a National Post transcript, “Why are we catering to one group with a disease that's preventable? It's very preventable. If you're not doing needles and you're not gay, you won't get AIDS probably. And I don't know why we're spending $1.5-million on this.”
39. April 2006: Ford berates a couple at a Maple Leafs game with such comments as “Do you want your little wife to go over to Iran and get raped and shot?” When the couple complains, Ford denies even being at the game — though he had given them his business card. He eventually concedes and apologizes, saying he had been “pretty well acting like an idiot.”
36. March 2008: During a debate about whether to allow stores to open on holidays, Ford says, “Go to the Orient, go to Hong Kong ... You want to see workaholics? Those Oriental people work like dogs ... they sleep beside their machines. The Oriental people, they're slowly taking over ... they’re hard, hard workers.”
41. June 2005: During the annual grants debate, Ford says, according to the Globe and Mail: “I don’t understand. Number one, I don’t understand a transgender. I don’t understand: is it a guy dressed up like a girl or a girl dressed up like a guy?”
3. April 2013: Saying “we need more females in politics,” Ford invites women to call him if they would like him to “explain how politics works” over coffee.
6. March 2013: Former mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson accuses Ford of sexually assaulting her by grabbing her buttocks at a party held by a Jewish political organization. Ford denies the allegation; on his weekly radio show, he questions whether Thomson is “playing with a full deck.”
5. Ford was asked to leave a military gala in February because organizers were concerned he was intoxicated. Ford does not address the specifics of the story, but he calls Star reporters “pathological liars” and the article an “outright lie.”
34. June 2010: In a secretly taped phone conversation, Ford appears to entertain a request from an HIV-positive man to help him illegally purchase OxyContin. “I’ll try, buddy,” he says. “Leave this with me ... I have no idea. I don’t know any drug dealers at all ... I’ll bet my life I won’t be able to help you out,” Ford says. He later says he has been “set up.”
37. March 2007: Ford says: “Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. And, you know, my heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day.”
29. August 2010: The Toronto Sun confronts Ford about an arrest in Florida in 1999 for marijuana possession. Ford adamantly denies the charge: “I’m dead serious. When I say no, I mean never. No question, Now I’m getting offended. No means no.” He later acknowledges that he had “one joint in my back pocket.” The next day, he says his memory had been fuzzy because he had been charged with “failing to give a breath sample” that same night. But even that is not true: he was actually charged with driving under the influence, to which he pleaded no contest.
11. November 2012: Paying TTC passengers are told to get off a bus in the rain so it can pick up Ford’s football team after an away game and drive them back to Don Bosco. After the police request the bus, Ford calls the TTC’s chief executive officer on his cellphone, then calls him again when the bus does not arrive immediately.
13. September 2012: City officials acknowledge that Ford personally asked senior civil servants to approve a road and drainage project on the land beside the headquarters of his family’s business, Deco Labels and Tags, in time for the company’s 50th anniversary party.
22. January 2012: Ford calls centrist and progressive councillors “two steps left of Joe Stalin.”
40. July 2005: Ford calls Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby, a fellow Etobicoke conservative, a “waste of skin.”
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