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CHIMO

(9,223 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:40 AM Sep 2012

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Reporters who followed him to Chicago for his Team Toronto business mission questioned him during a walkabout in downtown Millennium Park about press reports, appearing first in The Globe and Mail, that three “special assistants” in his office were detailed to help with his football coaching work.

Before his encounter with reporters, the mayor seemed to enjoy his visit to Millennium Park, handing out business cards, posing for pictures and chatting with curious onlookers. But he seemed briefly confused during one exchange. When one woman told him she’d been to Canada, he asked where. She said “the part across from Detroit on the river.”

“Oh, Manitoba!” the mayor said. “Oh, you were in Manitoba. Winnipeg?”

When a reporter explained that she meant Windsor, he replied: “Windsor. So that’s in Ontario. It’s about four hours away, Windsor and Toronto.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/ford-hits-chicago-but-cant-escape-controversy/article4552962/

Toronto has a Palin!

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ford-hits-chicago-but-cant-escape (Original Post) CHIMO Sep 2012 OP
Oh, god, how embarassing. Lucy Goosey Sep 2012 #1
Ford compared to Peter Griffen Joe Shlabotnik Sep 2012 #2

Joe Shlabotnik

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2. Ford compared to Peter Griffen
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:38 PM
Sep 2012

“I expect to see a chicken show up at (Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's) next football game and wrestle him through the city up and down City Hall corridors,” Coun. Adam Vaughan told reporters Monday.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2012/09/17/20206416.html



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