According to your friends at the Star, his attendance was pretty good compared to others.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...dance_better_than_lateterm_david_millers.html
Question is, what were the others doing when they weren't there?
Is it really coaching kids football on taxpayer time that's your issue...or is it just another stone?
The guy returns hundreds of calls well after business hours...is that not considered work?
Bash him all you want, but let's keep things in context here. He is a very fiscally responsible mayor regardless of his bad habits in his personal life.
Your cited link puts Ford's attendance squarely in the middle. It's only "……pretty good" if that's how you score dead average.
We may not know what other Councillors were doing when they weren't there, but they haven't been recorded as meeting and exchanging packages and envelopes with drug dealers, pissing in parks, smoking crack, lying about and then admitting to drunken stupors, abusing members of the public, his so-called friends, and fellow Council members …. The list goes on. If others were up to similar discreditable and disgusting behaviour, I'm sure there'd be plenty of interest.
Doing the Mayor's job properly wouldn't leave much time for any personal activities, including coaching football, especially not in the hours when he's being paid to be on the job. He can't claim privacy for his personal life if he can't keep personal and private life separate.
It may or may not be true that he returns all his calls, a couple of my acquaintances are still waiting. But the ones he boast about taking care of have all been minor matters like potholes, that an efficient and properly funded Works Department would take care of without the CEO telling them to. And we'll politely ignore the calls seeking special treatment for him and his. In any case, taxpayer complaints are more properly the local Councillor's responsibility. Still, I guess it's kinda sweet Rob's still trying to do the only real job he's ever had or done at all well. Sweet but hardly good enough to make him a real Mayor. What any City or corporation needs is a CEO who manages an efficient, quality operation and gets the departments the operating funds necessary to do their work without such micro-bandaiding.
No fiscal responsibility has been demonstrated, but a lot of unkept promises about such stuff are still out there. Taxes are going up, service fees and charges are going up, departments are doing less, planning is a hopeless mess, and the elected leader is a lying drug-using drunkard whose worst failing is believing he can do it all himself. Whether it's coaching, leading Council, keeping promises, or being responsible for himself and his family his record is incompetence and one sad failure after another.
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