The Days of Telling Voters for whom they MUST Vote Are Over

The entire knock ‘em down, drag ‘em out style of vicious Toronto politics long precedes the world’s best known Digital Mayor, the much beleaguered Rob Ford.

With the mainstream media being the far left’s under the sheet first cousins, the public at large seemed unaware that the far left, who made Canada’s largest city their private breeding ground, seared Toronto with their own branding iron as a way of demonstrating their stubbornly held belief that they OWN Toronto, lock, stock and barrel. It had been that way ever since Olivia Chow’s late husband Jack Layton ran city hall as a councillor and, in de facto, the Toronto Board of Education where Chow served as a radical school board trustee. Toronto has long been the kind of city where councillors elected to take out the garbage and pave over the potholes instead worked to make the city a nuclear weapon-free zone and where spending other peoples’ money came first, second and last. All went as according to so until the four-footed rats overwhelmed the two-legged ones when leftwing Mayor David Miller lost control over the unions who supported him, leaving the garbage reeking on downtown Toronto streets.

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The stench was becoming unbearable in the summer of 2009 when Rob Ford, the councillor other councillors tried to fire because he refused to spend taxpayer’s money, decided to toss his scorched cowboy hat into the mayoral ring. Imagine the wrath of the left when Ford rode the vote count to become the first non-left, small ‘c’ Mayor of Toronto in living memory with a whopping 383, 500 votes--or 47 percent of the popular vote on Oct. 25, 2010. For the Toronto left, it went down as The Day the Music Died and their taxpayer subsidized undies have been in a twist ever since. It was now time to drag the nasty politics that is Toronto’s signature style out of the gutters and onto the world stage. Never once did the left and its mainstream media running dogs stop to think that they were now making the people of Toronto too big to fail. “Ford, who has emerged relatively unscathed in a soap opera gone viral on the Internet, has a current Forum poll approval rating of 42%—down a mere two points after all the drama over an alleged video supposedly showing him smoking crack cocaine presented by Somalian drug dealers to an all too willing Gawker.com and the on-an-anti-Ford- tear Toronto Star as truth. (Canada Free Press, May 29, 2013) “The far left in Toronto, which never gives up, is up against a mayor who never gives up.” ‘Rob Ford’s first debate since rehab a heated, raucous affair’, trumpets the National Post in today’s headlines. Shouldn’t the headline have been ‘Opponents Olivia Chow, John Tory, Karen Stintz and David Soknacki make Rob Ford’s first debate since rehab a heated, raucous affair’? National Post-described as Ford’s “rocky return from rehab”, which should have been ‘Rocky’s Return From Rehab’, we read how “insults were hurled across the stage”. For Ford, they included all the names excerpt for the one he really is: “the incumbent”. But what really tees off Ford’s opponents is the only small thing about him: his small ‘c’ conservatism. Ford’s heart is as big as his bull in a china shop style. So galling to the Olivia Chows, the John Torys, the Karen Stintzs and the David Soknacki’s--the Toronto electorate has changed while players like them remain the same old, same old. Like the late Jack Layton, they are all so yesterday. The days of telling voters for whom they MUST vote are over, Ms. Chow. And it must be the irony of all time that in throwing Rob Ford out to the ravening wolves of the digital world, his virulent opponents have succeeded at what all previous mayors and councils have never done: woke up the sleeping giant known as the electorate.