Somehow, in the past two days, the situation at city hall managed to get even more surreal. Council voted en masse to urge Rob Ford to step aside. Police documents allege Ford entertained a prostitute in his office. Ford talked about oral sex on TV (including CNN, which carried it live). The mayor got his own television show. Needless to say, it’s a total zoo. Here, we round up ten quotes that drive home how outlandish Toronto politics have become.
—Premier Kathleen Wynne, opening the door to intervention from the province—under certain strict conditions
—A missive from actor and noted drug dabbler Charlie Sheen, after a fake story that he had called Ford to resign made the rounds on social media
—Rob Ford, responding to an allegation that he told a woman who is not his wife that he “wanted to eat her pussy”
–Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, who has been at the vanguard of council’s efforts to oust Ford, commenting on the mayor’s apology for his “graphic remarks”
—Seth Meyers, who anchors Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment. Probably a safe bet, Seth.
–Ford earlier today, on why he has decided to pursue legal action against several ex-staffers and a BierMarkt employee for what they said to police
—Doug Ford, describing Ford’s treatment at council yesterday as a kind of crucifixion
—Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, whose on-again-off-again support of Ford is once again waning
—Police Board vice-chairman Michael Thompson, after Rob Ford asked how Thompsons’s could know 15 Windsor Road was a “crack house” if he had never been there
—Ford, who drew peals of laughter in council with his explanation of how he didn’t break his 2006 vow that his drunken outburst at the Air Canada Centre “will not be repeated”
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