Why Hundreds of Thousands of Torontonians Supported their Conservative Crack-Smoking Mayor

TEA Party Nation take heart: If Ford Nation could surmount all odds including a mainstream media ganged up against them, so can you!

Columnist/ author Arthur Weinreb’s book, Ford Nation: Why hundreds of thousands of Torontonians supported their conservative crack-smoking mayor, is the one book that lets out of the bag, a secret the mainstream media never wanted out in public.

People the world over know the story of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose admission to crack smoking on one of his drunken stupors, took him viral as the quintessential ‘digital mayor’.

Though not written as a how-to book, Weinreb’s Ford Nation: Why hundreds of thousands of Torontonians supported their conservative crack-smoking mayor is a blueprint for how taxpayers hell-bent to keep city hall out of their back pockets during a mayoral race with the media stacked up against them, against all odds, scored incredibly huge Election Day returns.

That the media failed to rid Toronto of Ford is an admission that will never be contained within media headlines.

“Rob is especially admired for his refusal to bend to the constant demands for his resignation and the constant criticism and name calling he endured since he first came on the municipal scene in 2000. A lesser man or woman would have given up years ago. But Rob persisted in order to pursue his objective of not wasting the tax money of Toronto residents. While the scandals are often used as an excuse, those who were constantly calling for his resignation did so because they hate him and his politics.
“Although some people might think it’s cool to have a mayor who uses illegal drugs and appears drunk in public, the vast majority of Ford Nation are law abiding people who do not approve of Rob personal conduct but support him in spite of his behaviour. They were willing to overlook the scandals because there were simply no other politicians who cared more about them than Rob and Doug did. These other politicians cared about themselves, their friends, and their corporate, union and special interest group supporters. Had another politician come along who had the same genuine care about taxpayers, things would have been completely different.”
By the time Toronto’s mayoral election campaign was in full swing, the international media had thrown in with the local mainstream media in ridiculing Rob Ford as the globe’s ‘Digital, crack smoking mayor’.

Actually makes sense. We knew something was wrong when the media beat him down relentlessly, unlike virtually all other (liberal) big city mayors guilty some similar (if not identical) drug use and excesses.

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