With all due respect, you are parroting the MSM position on Rob Ford. If you're not from the Toronto area and don't know much about him, this is understandable and you have been very much mislead.

Rob Ford was a flawed human being but at the core was a good guy. He made the claim, and I do believe it to be true, that he would make an effort to answer every single phone call he would get as Major (and he was Major of a 2.5 Million person city). Despite the constant attacks by the media, he generally never said a bad word about anyone (this is the opposite of Doug Ford who started his political careers with some really distasteful attack ads, foreshadowing what was to come). Throughout his whole tenure as Major, the media attacked him day and night (unlike Dough Ford, the media is propping him up). The media knew about he had issues and tried to push him over the edge with constant harassments. They would have reporters show up at his house to spy on his young family (perverts) and when he confronted them about it they would turn it round on him even though what they were doing was clearly unethical and had nothing to do with journalism.

If you think him and Hunter are the same, you should consider:

1. The media ran with the crack story on him worldwide. Can you say that about Hunter or did they cover for him?

2. They called him racist for hanging out and partying with people of African ancestry. The people who he hung out with didn't think he was racist. If they had, they would have kicked his butt. The MSM was outraged on behalf of the alleged victims who didn't care. Sound familiar?

When Rob Ford was elected, to the extend it was possible, he did what he was elected to do. In Canada, the Major is only 1 vote on city council with almost no special powers, so the many leftists on city council did try to block his agenda. However, where it was possible, he carried out his agenda and actually got more done than might have been expected given the lefty city council.

Think what you want, but I do suggest you do some of your own research on Rob Ford and don't just parrot the MSM narrative on him. He was definitely flawed but I would take him, even on crack, over 99% of today's politicians. It would obviously have been better if he did not have a substance abuse issue, especially because it gave the media an angle to attack him thereby undermining what he was trying to do, but if I had to pick: substance abuse issue (Rob Ford) versus being liars who only govern to suit themselves (Dough Ford and 99%+ of politicians), I would take the latter any day.

If any word describes Rob Ford, it is a man of the people. He was never to high an mighty to talk to anyone and legitimately cared about the people. In the same position, he would never do what Doug Ford is doing. In fact, of any politician, this is 1 of the few that I actually believe would have sided with the truckers. The same people in Toronto who loved Rob Ford, absolutely hate his brother Doug.