Paul Benoit: “I think every single person in Toronto that wants Rob Ford to resign owes me a Heineken”
Paul Benoit: “I think every single person in Toronto that wants Rob Ford to resign owes me a Heineken”
—Paul Benoit, who entered Rob Ford’s Scarborough campaign office on Wednesday wearing an oversized rubber Ford mask and carrying a camera, during an interview with the Star. Benoit’s swift, forcible ejection from the office resulted in criminal charges against a Ford-campaign volunteer named William Byers.
Think about it. Someone in a Rob Ford mask (what kind of psycho stuff is this – hiding your identity) goes into a Ford campaign office unannounced with a camera. Why not contact Ford staff first and get permission? This guy doesn’t even realize that there are cameras around Ford 24/7 because of hate threats. We will see the real video soon enough. Ford is filming everyone to make sure that haters don’t cause harm to him or normal citizens. Think about it – a
Ford mask – psycho stuff – vote like the rest of us.
None of Rob’s volunteers are terribly stable. Just look at who they’re supporting.
Micko – I agree that wearing the mask wasn’t the smartest idea, but you know what is an even stupider move? Assuming Rob Ford cares about anyone besides Rob Ford….he is filming everyone because he is obsessed with his own fame, and instead of doing what’s best for the city, he is never failed to do what is best for him including creating, feeding, and thriving off of a media circus that even the media is sick of….at this point if Toronto votes him in, he (or the poor sap who has to clean up his mess) better not come crying to Ottawa like he did last year for money…Toronto should pay for Toronto votes. Also, the mask isn’t really pyscho, they have been selling Nixon masks for years, and its a common prop in lots of harmless practical jokes…perhaps if you are don’t believe in hiding your identity, you should change your online handle to your full name?
A pack of Paul Benoits? No thanks. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
It’s a bit amazing that such people use repulsive low-brow gambits in a bit to protest those who would never stoop to such a level.
But the entire dust-up and all participants? C’mon.
I have no love for Rob Ford, and I am not even a Torontonian, however, Torontonians have every right to prove their stupidity (again) in the next election and vote for him. If all they care about is paying as little taxes as possible then vote for Ford because that is what he has done and will do, with or without crack and drunken stupors. Just don’t come crying to the province when there is no money to pay for the crumbling infrastructure that supports their “great” city. Paul Benoit seems to think that his view of Rob Ford’s politics is what all of Torontonians think, yet that is for the people to decide on election day. His campaign office should be able to do their job without some idiot baiting and filming them while they are donating their time for a cause they believe in. Benoit clearly had been shown what lines not to cross on his first two visits to the office and still decided to go ahead with his prank. I would have wanted to slap him around too, which was probably his goal from the start. He should man up, take his lumps and drop any charges because, although he may not have thrown the first punch, he instigated the situation.
The biggest example of stupidity by Toronto voters was their overwhelming support of the blatantly corrupt Ontario Liberals and its lying, thieving leader Kathleen Wynne. Voting in Rob Ford was probably the only sane and rational thing Toronto voters have done in decades. At least Ford’s follies have only hurt him…and before you even try to say he has harmed the reputation of Toronto, the truth is that dubious honour lies solely on the shoulders of the Toronto Star and other left-leaning media who stooped to the level of bottom feeding rags like the National Enquirer flooding the news with inconsequential stories of Rob Ford’s personal….not professional….shortcomings while allowing the Liberals to skate with barely a mention of illegal cover-ups, unconscionable wasteful spending of tax dollars and the corrupt Green Energy industry which is filling the pockets of Liberal Party faithfuls at our expense. So my question to Paul Benoit is why don’t you and the Toronto Star focus your attention on the real crooks…our provincial government?