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Gravydämmerung: Getting away with it
Jun. 5th, 2013 10:12 amThe video of the Honourable Wife-Beating, Drunk-Driving, Bird-Flipping, Crack-Smoking, Possibly-Drug-Dealer-Murdering, and Evidence-Destroying Mayor smoking crack is apparently "gone." (This is why you always make a back-up, people!) The CBC was suggesting this morning that it might have found its way into the hands of police, who are refusing to comment (which means that they have it), where as the Star suggests skittishness on the part of the video's current owner. Occam's Razor suggests that the entire thing was about drug dealers blackmailing Ford, he paid up, the staffers resigned because of it, end of story.
At any rate, the laughable bumblefuck seems to have gotten away with it again. Not surprising. He routinely flouts the law, but the cops love him, so they don't investigate. Despite his everyman persona, he's a white millionaire, and white millionaires do not go to jail for breaking the law. Or lose their jobs.
(On a related note, if you haven't read this article about racial disparity in pot arrests in the U.S., you really should do that now.)
The mayor of Toronto smokes crack. It is known. It's hardly the worst thing he's done, but it was looking for awhile like the one thing that we could pin on him. But he's proven remarkably Teflon-coated. If I were more conspiracy-minded, I might point out that the crack video provided an excellent sideshow that distracted everyone from the fact that the federal Conservatives blatantly stole the last election. (I do think Ford's provincial and federal allies were completely willing to throw him under the bus, but it probably wasn't their preferred option.)
Meanwhile, Ford's actual policies still suck. Toronto recorded a $248 million surplus for 2012, mostly from the land transfer tax that he wants to cut. So there's that, but math is hard, and crack videos are funnier.
In other local news, Walmart wants to take a giant shit all over Kensington Market, while Frank Gehry is trying to take a slightly differently shaped shit over the Entertainment District. (Can't we just ship him to Dubai or something? I hear they like that kind of thing.)
You wouldn't know it sometimes, but I really do love my city. It's just run by people who hate it, which is a hell of a tragedy.
At any rate, the laughable bumblefuck seems to have gotten away with it again. Not surprising. He routinely flouts the law, but the cops love him, so they don't investigate. Despite his everyman persona, he's a white millionaire, and white millionaires do not go to jail for breaking the law. Or lose their jobs.
(On a related note, if you haven't read this article about racial disparity in pot arrests in the U.S., you really should do that now.)
The mayor of Toronto smokes crack. It is known. It's hardly the worst thing he's done, but it was looking for awhile like the one thing that we could pin on him. But he's proven remarkably Teflon-coated. If I were more conspiracy-minded, I might point out that the crack video provided an excellent sideshow that distracted everyone from the fact that the federal Conservatives blatantly stole the last election. (I do think Ford's provincial and federal allies were completely willing to throw him under the bus, but it probably wasn't their preferred option.)
Meanwhile, Ford's actual policies still suck. Toronto recorded a $248 million surplus for 2012, mostly from the land transfer tax that he wants to cut. So there's that, but math is hard, and crack videos are funnier.
In other local news, Walmart wants to take a giant shit all over Kensington Market, while Frank Gehry is trying to take a slightly differently shaped shit over the Entertainment District. (Can't we just ship him to Dubai or something? I hear they like that kind of thing.)
You wouldn't know it sometimes, but I really do love my city. It's just run by people who hate it, which is a hell of a tragedy.
