MayorVij vs. Video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford allegedly smoking crack is up for sale: Gawker
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FYI, many of you may have heard this by now, but just in case, I was sort-of surprised to read about it this morning. It sounds like it checks out well enough for a number of journalists to risk their livelihoods and lawsuits over it, so I guess the 5th largest city in North America probably has a crack-smoking mayor.
While this may or may not be true, the way it's being handled suggests it probably is. Mayor Marion Barry of Washington D.C. was caught smoking crack, resigned, was joked about by Chris Rock and others, then came back to become mayor again. Stranger stuff has happened, but these allegations don't surprise me.
As usual, many people are probably just going to believe what they want as this is in style today instead of working together to figure out the real truth about who's responsible for using their tax dollars well to help manage their political affairs well enough to provide a good today and even better tomorrow. This sucks.
Therefore, I'm simply offering an opportunity to help change how people think about these things by having them make sure I'm in a position to. Right now, I'm on holidays from my save the world stuff, looking for gainful employ and keeping an eye on the big picture and how to casually influence as opposed to just fix it.
My strength is being able to handle controversial information in a strong way to come up with more practical and empowering interpretations of our collective problems, reactions and solutions. While people might want to get scared or uncomfortable and laugh, the best way to stay positive is to feel we can deal with this stuff.
Please check out my website for my latest project, the Ford articles and my 2010 mayoral run against him. I can't step on my front porch without seeing many confused adults acting weird instead of confidently saying hello, so our ability to do anything except for complain and then laugh at stuff like this off needs to be fixed.
Best,
Vij
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What You Want to Believe In is... People.
http://whatyouwanttobelievein.com/
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Video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford allegedly smoking crack is up for sale: Gawker
Gawker claims video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack is up for sale
A bizarre headline about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has made its way onto Gawker - a prominent U.S. news blog that has recently taken an interest in the leader of Canada's largest city.
According to Gawker correspondent John Cook, an unidentified person shot a video of Ford allegedly smoking crack cocaine. The person is now looking to sell the video for a six-digit figure.
Cook goes on to describe a journey he took to Toronto in an attempt to buy the video. He met a man who claims to have shot the video and watched the footage on a touch-screen cell phone while sitting in a car outside a housing project somewhere near the airport.
[ Related: Rob Ford declares downtown casino debate dead-ish ]
Here are a couple of significant claims made in the Gawker piece:
The video was shot in the last six months
Ford allegedly purchases crack cocaine from a dealer who is popular with the city's elite, allegedly including some of Ford’s staff members and his brother, as well as a "prominent hockey analyst."
A Canadian news agency allegedly offered $40,000 for the video, but was told it wasn't enough. The owner wanted to sell it for six figures.
The full story is pretty complicated and worth a read. There is no evidence corroborating the allegations Cook makes, outside of what he has brought to the table. And these allegations, as damning as they appear, should only be viewed as unconfirmed accusations.
It should be noted that former mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson alleged Ford appeared to be on cocaine during a party in March, at which she claimed he grabbed her rear end.
Ford called her a liar and demanded an apology.
It appears Gawker and its sister-site Deadspin have recently taken notice of Ford and his antics. The sites have published stories on his foibles several times in recent months, including his recent run-in with a video camera and the time he posed for a photograph at McDonalds with someone dressed in a Hamburglar outfit.
VIJAY SARMA
CP24, Published Friday, September 24, 2010 2:30PM EDT
Where Vijay Sarma stands on the big issues facing Toronto:
1. Transit City is an important and controversial part of Toronto. What are your thoughts on the proposed plan?
"I think that large infrastructure problems are not something we need right now when we already have problems with existing transit lines. We should fix those first, otherwise taking on a new project might just weaken our ability to facilitate the current TTC projects."
2. Bike lanes have become a topic in the last few weeks. Do you plan on implementing them on Jarvis, University and the other locations?
"Definitely for it, but it has to be done with the participation of the community where those bike lanes are going to be. If people in the community want bike lanes, great. If they don't, then they shouldn't have them and so it would take community involvement to approve a bike lane."
3. How do you feel about the idea of charging road tolls?
"I'm against road tolls. With our budgets right now, and our tax rates sky rocketing over the last couple years, I think the last thing we need is toll roads slowing down the pace of the business in this city and make life more inconvenient for the people of Toronto."
4. How do you feel about the crime level in Toronto? How do you plan on addressing it?
"If there is persistent corruption or crime that is something our government and media, should deal with. Men should deal with it on behalf of women and children just how men have defended their culture for thousands of years before this."
5. How do you plan on cleaning up the city?
"First of all the pollution in the environment on a daily basis is something I want to deal with. The CBC had a story called The Disappearing Male, talking about how the male sperm count is going down. So I think there are things that affect our daily lives in terms of pollution that we have to deal with as well. Garbage pickup I would double to triple a week, as oppose to once a week to make it more convenient for businesses to operate in this city."
6. How do you plan on bringing "new life" to the city? (ex: people, business, events, parades etc.)
"I think we should have a strong cultural funding but I think that it should be community based. So the communities themselves is where the artists develop from, should chose whom they wish to find as opposed to the centralized process we currently have now where the city, provincial, or even the federal government does it. I'd like to see the people do it and chose which artists they would like their tax dollars to support."
7. How important is accountability while you are in office and how do you plan on monitoring this?
"I'd like the citizens of Toronto to communicate with the city employees, city bureaucracies and our elected officials for one hour a week to make that conversation continue. We're not part of one political party so we don't take any direction directly from them. We only take direction from the people or from the people who talk to us which are often corporate lobbies, special interest groups and so on. I'd like to make sure that we have a transparent system and let the people work for an hour a week to help maintain that."
8. What are your plans for the city's budget including taxes?
"I'd like to borrow from the Bank of Canada which any municipal, provincial, or federal government can do if the right people are in charge of each of the governments. I plan to cut taxes. No more extra taxes, eco fees, property taxes. We pay approx 60% of our income in total taxes and I think that the government has enough money. They're just not using it as well as they should."
9. What "big idea" do you have that will be part of your platform?
"I think that millions of people online are looking for the truth and I think that the media does a great job of covering issues rarely once in a while. I think that it would be a great idea if we were open to the work of whistle blowers, scientists, doctors, and others who questioned the main stream orthodox issues like fluoride and vaccines which are two keys for me. And so I'd like to see those re-visited by our city. So if we have the campaign like the H1N1 campaign, where we promote the vaccine, we also promote the risk of the vaccine and where you can get legal vaccines and exemption forms. It's part of the 1997 Immunization of School People's Act."
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