A Sunday Morning Doug Ford 🧵
It starts with simple questions:
WTF?
How is Doug Ford still a thing?
How is he polling in the high 30s?
Do people not see the in-your-face corruption?
How is anyone in this province even remotely enamoured…
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…with a barely educated, barely literate, former strip mall hash dealer with a penchant for folksy populism, and blatant grift?
The man got elected on a platform of simply not being #KathleenWynne. And sadly, enough people in this province hated the thought…
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…of being governed by a lesbian woman that they bought into it.
Remember when the most memorable plank in that platform was ‘Buck-a-Beer’?
But supporters will point to windmills and spending as excuses for why Ford trumps Wynne (see what I did there?) .
And yet…
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…those same supporters are just fine turning a blind eye to Ford’s own corruption.
The grift started early on.
Remember the crony appointments given to Ron Taverner and Rueben Devlin? How about Jenni Byrne and Dean French?
It would appear that…
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…the Doug Ford Gravy Train was picking up steam real quick.
Remember the sweet deals for vid gaming and horse racing, all while Ford gutted basic income, autism resources, and youth mental health?
Remember how Ford cancelled Green Energy initiatives…
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…only to backtrack now as an election draws near?
Similar slashing in healthcare has prompted Ford to offer election season bribes to nurses in an effort to encouraging them to stay in Ontario.
Ford’s education plans have involved nothing more than cuts and the…
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…typical union busting and teacher vilification reminiscent of the Harris days.
Ontario fared no better as COVID hit. The past two years in this province have been visibly marred by Ford’s mismanagement. LTC homes have been ravaged by incompetence and outright neglect.
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We watched seniors fall ill and die as the FordNation fiddled.
Even as a pandemic raged, there was opportunity for grift…a massive salary for Rick Hillier in exchange for offloading those duties onto local health units.
Affordable housing? Ford’s solution…
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…is to simply make it easier for his developer buddies to build more houses. Whether sensitive environments are sacrificed remains to be seen.
Speaking of developers…a look at land ownership along the Hwy 413 corridor will quickly tell you who stands to benefit most.
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More recently, there are two very noteworthy things:
a) Ford’s silence on the “Freedom Convoy”
(he was all too happy to lay responsibility at Trudeaus’s doorstep, even though many of the mandates were provincial jurisdiction…)
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b) Ford’s lifting of the mask mandates -
(something that clearly indicates his willingness to sacrifice the vulnerable in order to pander to his base)
…and we haven’t even touched on gas pump stickers, licence plates, daughter Krista, etc.
The list is extensive.
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A LIST:
ofl.ca/ford-tracker/
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But come June…one thing is crystal clear: there are much better alternatives…ones that will undoubtedly serve the province well, despite any flaws they may have.
It can’t be any worse.
That’s a fact.
June, 2022.
You know what to do.
Spread the word.
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#GravyTrain #PartyWIthTaxPayerMoney
#Grift
#Cronyism
#VoteThemOut2022
#VoteOutDougFord
@AndreaHorwath
@StevenDelDuca
#SaveOntario
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