Thursday, March 31, 2011

Mayor Ford has dinner with shady businessman. And this is news?

Oh look, His Lordship Mayor Ford is acting like any other politician, not totally above board.

And he's only a few months in.

What fun we will have...

In an act that some say amounts to selling access to the city’s highest office, Mayor Rob Ford’s campaign auctioned off a meeting with him to a businessman once found by a civil court to have misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The revelation Wednesday came as the full list of the mayor’s campaign donors was posted online, demonstrating that, although he raised much of his war chest from small contributions, he also garnered money from big-name developers, high-level politicians and the heads of companies holding city contracts.

On Feb. 4, Mr. Ford met with Johnathan Vrozos, who donated $2,000 to the mayor’s election campaign in two tranches. Mr. Ford said Mr. Vrozos bought the meeting at a fundraising golf tournament.


Hey Mr. Vrozos "may" be corrupt, but at least he's not a Pinko, eh Robbie?

Read more here.

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