Rob Ford
was the central talking piece in one of the United States foremost think tank,
located the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC
on Friday, May 16. The topic was how Ford was able to become the mayor of
Toronto, and also how he is still able to maintain such popularity among
Torontonians even after all of the scandals he has been involved in. He holds
much of his popularity in “suburban voters” who are “less educated” and also
from some of those who support him because he “upsets the elites”.
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| Rob Ford's recognizable face |
I think that all of this thought put
into Rob Ford and who supports him and why is wasted, since my belief is that
in order to judge somebody on how fit they are to hold a position, you cannot
look at their personal life but have to judge based on what they did in office
in the past. Holding a think tank on whether Rob Ford is fit to hold office is
not going to show you how good or bad of a mayor he is, since you are probably
only going to look at how bad of a person he is. I have no doubts that, based
on media, Rob Ford is about as terrible of a person that he can get without
stabbing somebody, but that is in his personal life and I don’t judge him on
how good a mayor he is by that; I don’t judge his mayoral abilities at all
because in the news they barley mention how he is doing as a mayor. I think
that the only reason Rob Ford blew up in such a way is because the media
decided to cling to him.
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Rob Ford a topic of
discussion at U.S. think tank
May 16, 2014
Paul Koring
The Globe and Mail
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