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Aug 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The NordStar Capital News, offering @fordnation a shoeshine, today says the Stealth Campaigner is working diligently alongside his Phantom MPPs, who are:

"...resurrecting the spring budget that served as their campaign platform." /2

thestar.com/politics/provi…
Platform? Doug’s "Get it Done" campaign consisted of videos in front of "friends", handouts to drivers and WSIB corp allies and promises for blue collar workers. That activists were gagged for a year by Bill 254 not only escapes the corporate memory of the progressive paper.../3
..it celebrates the grift facilitated by Ford's anti-democratic tactics.

Reporter Benzie forgets a Sup Ct justice found 4 sections of Ford's overreaching gag law breached s. 2 of the Charter based on freedom of expression and that, in response to the rebuke, Boss Ford.../4
...invoked the Charter's s. 33 notwithstanding clause an unprecedented second time, reintroduced the offending sections of the act using the clause, overriding the Superior Court ruling and passing the amendments following a 63 to 47 latenight vote.

The Canadian Civil.../5
...Liberties Association said the gag law would aid the incumbent government’s re-election bid by limiting political voices during a campaign.

Ford, despite an error-ridden 1st term, won 83 of 124 seats.

#CLUSTERFORD #onpoli

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Unrelenting in his indolence, still celebrating a PC Party victory two months after it happened, Doug Ford finally emerged Aug 3, 2022 to obfuscate and deflect on hospital department closures, but not before the cowardly label-maker had run his embattled Mistress of Health.../2
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Any hopes that the Covid disaster unfolding in the emergency rooms of provincially controlled hospitals might shame the premiers into action were demolished when the media decided it was all tightwad Justin Trudeau's fault and the premiers deserved praise for their prudent.../2
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Doug Ford earned special mention from a variety of libertarian media pundits for sharp budgeting that saw a $1.8B payment issued to the (likely indifferent) holders of Ontario debt. But the story of seriously ill citizens camped out on hard.../3
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The Code Blues at infirmaries were ironically accompanied by the arrival of the Ford Disinformation Convoy to Victoria, B.C. .../4
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Jul 18
Seeing a lot of tweets about Ford's suppression of the provincial vote June 2 and the media's complicity.

#CLUSTERFORD rewind:

"The Toronto press pack, wondering why the 2022 campaign went missing, failed to note that Huckster Ford's face had been on screens continuously.../2
..for months, while no issue advertising was to be heard. Ford gagged teachers, HCWs, the disabled, LTC/Covid victims, small business, closing off a key platform available to special interests, and even had activist lawyer Caryma Sa'd aggressively handcuffed at a Trump-style../3
..re-election rally;

Ford's election law was starkly favourable to his PCs, hobbling labour and other third parties for a full year, including during the campaign, while personal allowable contribution limits were doubled to $3K;

Meanwhile, Ford burned through $9M in 35.../4
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The media has buried the lede again, as the impact of Ford's Bill 254 and its ham-fisted interference in election advertising and 3rd party involvement has been on display since the campaign began five weeks ago: Ford's face has been on screens continuously, along with the.../2
...huckster patter, but no issue advertising is to be heard;

Teachers, HCWs, the disabled, LTC/Covid victims, small business, etc., have been shut down, as Ford blunts (and handcuffs) critics as an election tactic. Nevertheless, an obtuse press pack wonders why the campaign.../3
...went flat;

April 2021, Ford's election financing revamp, aka the Protecting Ontario Elections Act, was characterized as the "Squashing Ontario Democracy Act" by Unifor, the country's largest private sector union;

Ford's election law is starkly favourable to his PCs; .../4
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April 2021, Ford's Bill 254 election financing revamp, aka the Protecting Ontario Elections Act, is characterized as the "Squashing Ontario Democracy Act" by Unifor, the country's largest private sector union;

Ford's election law is starkly favourable to his PCs, hobbling../2
...labour and other 3rd parties during campaigns, but personal allowable contribution limits are doubled to $3,000;

Ford's amendments double the time spending limits are imposed on political advertising by 3rd parties, from 6 to 12 months leading to an election. During.../3
.. that time, each interest group or individual's ad spend is now limited;

An ON Superior Court Justice found 4 sections of Bill 254 infringed s. 2. of the Charter based on freedom of expression;

In response to the Superior Court rebuke, as usual embracing audacity over.../4
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