l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 1 Toronto mayor can't promise he will stay sober
July 4, 2014 - 4:05 PM
Associated Press
TORONTO (AP) — Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Friday that he won't
guarantee he will stay sober if he's re-elected, telling a radio show that
people will just have to trust him.
Ford, who returned this week to City Council from two months in rehab, said
in an interview on Newstalk 1010 that he can't make promises about something
over which he has "no control."
Radio host Jerry Agar said that as someone who has supported Ford in the
past, the lack of guarantees that he won't drink again if re-elected makes
it tough to "take another four-year shot on Rob Ford."
"That's up to you," Ford replied. "You're going to have to look at my record
and compare it to the people I'm running (against) and you're basically
going to have to trust me."
Ford insisted that returning to lead Canada's largest city and run for re-
election Oct. 27 won't compromise his recovery.
Ford said earlier this week that he's used "every drug you can probably
think of," and blamed substance abuse for the racist and homophobic language
he's used. He said he's used cocaine, marijuana and hallucinogenic
mushrooms, but not heroin. He acknowledged he smoked crack but denied he was
a crack addict. He said he drank at City Hall, but never did drugs at work.
The mayor announced in late April that he would seek help for alcohol
addiction after a video surfaced that apparently showed him smoking crack
cocaine. Reports last year of a similar video led to months of denials
before Ford made his statement about smoking crack in a "drunken stupor."
A small group of protesters, inspired by Joe Killoran, a shirtless jogger
whose rant at Ford during a Canada Day event on July 1 touched off a social
media frenzy, gathered outside the radio studios.
"We have no shirts, you have no ethics," read one sign carried by the
protesters, many of whom were bare chested.
Since his return Ford has given a handful of interviews, but has refused to
take questions from city hall journalists at large about the circumstances
surrounding his alcohol and drug use, the company he kept and offensive
remarks he has made. | d*******p
发帖数: 2525 | 2 应该说是多伦多的市民就是一群joke.......这个市长可是他们自己选择的 | t***h
发帖数: 2924 | 3 这么说不公平.
应该说joke的选民在人口比例里太多了.
那些不joke的,也努力过了,可是人口弱势,没办法.
就像美国现在这样,很多人说:谁让你们选奥巴马的?活该.
这句话不公平.很多人选romney的,被迫接受奥巴马当选的事实.而这群人
比较惨的是,不仅要面对讨厌的人当政,没有经济好处,反而要被抽税去养
那些投奥巴马票的人.
【在 d*******p 的大作中提到】
: 应该说是多伦多的市民就是一群joke.......这个市长可是他们自己选择的
| t**i
发帖数: 511 | 4 当时ford和一个同性恋竞选市长，自由党的票仓少数裔族像穆斯林年长华人等宁愿不投
票也不选同性恋。 其实自由党随便挑个非男同性恋(拉拉也行)都能赢。这有点像
huckabee赢了三番。
said
something
【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: Toronto mayor can't promise he will stay sober
: July 4, 2014 - 4:05 PM
: Associated Press
: TORONTO (AP) — Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Friday that he won't
: guarantee he will stay sober if he's re-elected, telling a radio show that
: people will just have to trust him.
: Ford, who returned this week to City Council from two months in rehab, said
: in an interview on Newstalk 1010 that he can't make promises about something
: over which he has "no control."
: Radio host Jerry Agar said that as someone who has supported Ford in the
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