Comments | tamago23: Yeah, well, my diplomacy ran out

tamago23

Yeah, well, my diplomacy ran out

Dec 10, 2010 11:20

Letter to the douchebag that some of my fellow Torontonians elected as Mayor:
Dear Mayor Ford ( Read more... )

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misslynx December 10 2010, 18:47:21 UTC

Excellent response. I didn't even get an autoresponse when I wrote in - they must have added it later.

misslynx December 10 2010, 18:59:03 UTC

BTW, forgot to add - the most infuriating thing about all this, to me, is that I highly doubt that he actually intends to build any subways at all. I strongly suspect he's just using the prospect of building subways as an excuse to dump Transit City so that he doesn't come off looking quite so much like he's completely anti-transit ( ... )

Sorry to add yet one more thing... misslynx December 10 2010, 19:02:57 UTC

...But a horrible possibility just occurred to me: that maybe he'll use all these e-mails expressing concern about how expensive subways are as ammunition to scrap that plan once he finishes scrapping TC. Because he'll be able to point to them as evidence that clearly Torontonians think we can't afford a subway, even though the original point was to try and save TC, not to scrap the only public transit investment he's apparently willing to make. So he'll basically be able to doubly screw us while looking like he's being responsive.

tamago23 December 10 2010, 20:38:28 UTC

I think I sent mine about two weeks ago, so I guess they're just now getting around to sending out their copypasta responses to everyone who emailed them about it.

You know, before he got elected, I saw a lot of people defending him in the Toronto Star's website comments. Suddenly those supporters have clammed up and few people are defending him now. Hm, I wonder why?

birthingway December 10 2010, 19:45:16 UTC

My condolences at having such a toadish fuckwad for an elected official. (This coming from BC, the land of BS-up-to-the-eyeballs politicians.)

tamago23 December 10 2010, 20:50:28 UTC

Oh man, there's just no words for the toadishness or the fuckwadedness of this guy. :( I'm sure you and Sim will appreciate this particular quote from Mayor Ford: "I can't support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day."

Yes.

He just said that when people get killed on their bikes, it's their own fault for riding a bike.

Did I mention he drives an SUV?

birthingway December 10 2010, 21:58:35 UTC

o.O

If the Vancouver mayor said that, he'd be tarred and feathered!

lafemmedesfemme December 10 2010, 23:36:31 UTC

wow.

that's a special kind of asshole.

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