What's the deal with Mayor Rob Ford??

[CountDeMoney]

Welcome to the club.

[Admiral Yi]

Crack doesn't have the stigma anymore

You're stoned.

[Barrister]

I don't consider myself a puritan, but I'd probably have some qualms with my Mayor strolling around town meeting with drug dealers that his driver knows, and smoking crack cocaine. Crack cocaine is a poor hood drug, I don't really know what a respectable member of the ruling class is doing using it when he could have been snorting coke or something more appropriate for his economic/societal station.

You don't seem to appreciate what Rob Ford's "economic/societal station" is.

Bingo

Otto,  Ford got elected on a platform which proudly declared his anti-establishment, anti-intellectual and anti ruling-class status.  If someone in one of those groups had been around to advise him he probably could have turned this story to his advantage early on.  Who knows he still might do.

There were stories when this first came out that Ford's right hand man (whose name escapes me) was fired because he point-blank told Ford he needed to come clean about his alcohol / drug use and seek treatment.  He'd be doing about a million times better right now if he'd followed that advice.

[CountDeMoney]

Crack ain't just black anymore.  Hasn't been for a long time.

You people need to get out more.

[Malthus]

Crack ain't just black anymore.  Hasn't been for a long time.

You people need to get out more.

Rob Ford and Seedy. Leading us into the new millenium. 

[Barrister]

Crack ain't just black anymore.  Hasn't been for a long time.

You people need to get out more.

Now that I'm in the south and no longer doing drug prosecutions I'm a little bit out of the loop, but certainly in the north poor whites would use crack.  Powdered coke was very rare to see.

[crazy canuck]

There were stories when this first came out that Ford's right hand man (whose name escapes me) was fired because he point-blank told Ford he needed to come clean about his alcohol / drug use and seek treatment.  He'd be doing about a million times better right now if he'd followed that advice.

I suppose you missed my first post where I said:

If he had just come clean about smoking crack in the first place this story would have gone nowhere except for the puritans.

[garbon]

Crack ain't just black anymore.  Hasn't been for a long time.

You people need to get out more.

Okay but it still has the stigma of poverty.

[katmai]

Crack is a ghetto drug
Meth is where it's at for the poors of the bleached variety
get it right people, sheesh.

[crazy canuck]

Crack ain't just black anymore.  Hasn't been for a long time.

You people need to get out more.

Okay but it still has the stigma of poverty.

And again you miss the point of the constituency that elected Ford

[Malthus]

Unfortunately, unless he resigns voluntarily, or is tried and convicted of something, there appears to be no mechanism for removing a mayor for being a drunken and drugged-up wreck.

[garbon]

Crack ain't just black anymore.  Hasn't been for a long time.

You people need to get out more.

Okay but it still has the stigma of poverty.

And again you miss the point of the constituency that elected Ford

I wasn't caring about that but just replying to Seed's campaign to rehabilitate crack.

[CountDeMoney]

Crack ain't just black anymore.  Hasn't been for a long time.

You people need to get out more.

Okay but it still has the stigma of poverty.

If only they had worked harder and got better jobs, they'd be able to afford better drugs.

[garbon]

Crack ain't just black anymore.  Hasn't been for a long time.

You people need to get out more.

Okay but it still has the stigma of poverty.

If only they had worked harder and got better jobs, they'd be able to afford better drugs.

Easier to abuse hydrocodone when you have a prescription.

[crazy canuck]

Unfortunately, unless he resigns voluntarily, or is tried and convicted of something, there appears to be no mechanism for removing a mayor for being a drunken and drugged-up wreck.

I am not sure if this is a form of social commentary predicting he will be re-elected or not