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Quoted: Rob Ford on “Joe” Stalin, and the city councillors that are apparently just like him

By Stephen Spencer Davis
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Joe Stalin (Image: Wikimedia)
Joe Stalin (Image: Wikimedia)

“These people are all two steps left of Joe Stalin… They don’t care about the taxpayers, but I know one person that does and that’s me.”

Like his right-hand man Giorgio Mammoliti, Rob Ford can smell the communists in his midst. Ford made the remarks (“Joe” Stalin? Um, since when are Ford and the deceased Soviet dictator drinking buddies?) during a radio interview with AM 640 Host John Oakley in response to a question about Josh Matlow. In addition, to Matlow—who, really, is basically council’s Switzerland—Ford specifically referred to comrades Adam Vaughan, Gord Perks, Janet Davis and Paula Fletcher. Read the entire story [Torontoist] »

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