Maybe not scandals, but there was controversy.
The leader my favorite blogger refers to as "Kim Dong Wynne" threatened to get involved in the Ford's business. They responded.
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"I think the premier should take care of the problems that she has at Queen's Park right now," the mayor said Thursday.
Councillor Ford urged the premier: "Get your own house in order."
"I find it ironic, folks, an unelected premier that is up to her eyeballs in scandals, wasting billions of dollars of tax dollars, she has the nerve, hypocrisy, to come and criticize the mayor," Doug Ford said.
"You're avoiding an election, you're running from an election and you're running from the people because you know you wouldn't get re-elected."
Doug Ford has announced that he intends to run for the provincial Tories in Etobicoke, but his appeal appears to be wearing off, especially in light of unproven allegations he may have had his own history with drugs.
When asked whether the Tories were still supportive of a Doug Ford provincial candidacy, PC MPP Jim Wilson said Thursday that the party has an open nomination process, so anyone can make a run.
"He's not our candidate," Wilson said. "He has to win the nomination first, just like anyone else. I don't even know the guy. Personally, I've never even met him."
Wilson said he did know the Fords' dad, Doug Sr., a former Tory MPP, whom he described as a "decent chap."
And in yet another sign that Queen's Park is watching the Toronto upheaval, Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian has sent a letter to the mayor warning him not to destroy any office e-mails or telephone records.
"Any inappropriate destruction of records has the potential to seriously erode the public's trust and confidence in the City of Toronto as an accountable and transparent government institution," Cavoukian said. "Could you please immediately confirm that these records have not, nor will be, destroyed."
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