Monday, March 28, 2011

FYI Mayor Ford, conflits of interest look bad to thinking voters...oh never mind then, you'll be fine

Documents released this week confirm that the mayor’s family business has earned tens of thousands of dollars over the past decade doing business with the city he now leads.

That may seem like a trifling thing. The contracts awarded to Etobicoke-based Deco Labels and Tags are small potatoes for a government with a budget of more than $9-billion. No one is suggesting that Deco got the business simply because Rob Ford was a city councillor. No one is saying that Mr. Ford exploited his influence to secure contracts for the company, which is a prominent name in its line of work and is quite capable of winning the business on its own merit.


Of course no one is saying it...openly...yet.

Read more here.

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