Robert Bruce Ford
Born: May 28, 1969, 12:00 PM (unknown)
in: Etobicoke, Ontario (79w33'08" 43n39'29")

progressed Neptune sextile Jupiter (0 to 1')

this guy seems to have entered my news radar recently...
Seems to have a pattern of denial (enemies gunning for him?)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/s ... -gala.html

This story seems to be less than 24 hours old now.
http://gawker.com/for-sale-a-video-of-t ... -507736569
video for sale: priced raised to $200,000 in the last few hours
was asking for a "six-figure" amount of money (more than $100,000) and Cook offered $40,000 for the video but was turned down.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/17 ... 90180.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford#O ... troversies
2 full screens of text

http://www.torontolife.com/informer/fea ... nata-ford/
Imagine being married to someone who claims to have personally returned more than 200,000 calls in the past decade. A YouTube video of a campaign appearance shows Renata sitting at her husband?s side, nodding like a bobble-head doll, while he waves a fridge magnet with his telephone number on it and tells the audience, ?I return phone calls personally.?

As this city?s mayor, will Ford ever stop being receptionist-in-chief? After I left several messages, I received one of his famous 54.8 returned calls per day (although exactly why he bothered is a mystery).

Sun-Mercury conjunction in Gemini = Aries Point(7ge30)

http://www.canada.com/news/Toronto+Mayo ... story.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tor ... le4330595/

June 13, 2001: Mr. Ford questions a grant for a video about homosexuality in Toronto's South Asian community, telling The National Post: "I have no problem giving money out to physically or mentally handicapped children or seniors, but spending $5,000 on this video is disgusting, it is absolutely disgusting to spend this amount of money on this, whatever it was called, video."

March 6, 2002: During a council budget debate, Mr. Ford calls fellow Councillor George Mammoliti a "Gino-boy." Mr. Mammoliti says the remark is a racial slur: "I heard it in school. Hearing it at city hall shocks me." Mr. Ford denies making the remark.

April 17, 2002: During a council debate on whether there should be homeless shelters across the city, rather than only downtown, Mr. Ford says: "This is an insult to my constituents to even think about having a homeless shelter in their ward. And you want me to have a public meeting to discuss this? Why don't we have a public lynching?" (See video above.)

June 14, 2005: Mr. Ford questions the utility of grant programs for transgendered and transsexual people during a council debate. "I don't understand. No. 1, I don't understand a transgender, I don't understand, is it a guy dressed up like a girl or a girl dressed up like a guy? And we're funding this for, I don't know, what does it say here? We're giving them $3,210?"

July 19, 2005: During a council debate over speeding up construction of affordable housing units, Mr. Ford says: "People do not want government housing built in the city of Toronto. They want roads fixed, more police presence, but they don't want more government housing that will depreciate the value of their property."

July 23, 2005: During a council debate over a pothole, Mr. Ford calls fellow Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby "a joke. She's a waste of time. A waste of skin."

Dec. 7, 2005: Railing against new powers for the mayor, Mr. Ford says: "Giving the mayor more power for this council is like giving criminals free guns." The comment draws a chorus of unsuccessful demands for him to withdraw the remark.

April 15, 2006: Security guards remove a drunken and belligerent Mr. Ford from a Maple Leafs game after he shouts insults at an out-of-town couple. The attacks began after the man asks Mr. Ford to be quiet. Mr. Ford responds: "Who the fuck do you think you are? Are you a fucking teacher?" Failing to get a response, he turns his attention to the man's wife: "Do you want your little wife to go over to Iran and get raped and shot?" The couple realizes the angry man's identity after Mr. Ford leaves behind a business card. When reporters confront Mr. Ford with the couple's complaint, he denies being at the hockey game. A day later, he comes clean, saying he lied because he felt "embarrassed and humiliated." He also says: "I had one too many beers and I sincerely apologize." Mr. Ford later e-mails the couple an apology, writing: "My complete lack of manners were unprofessional, immature, and do not in any way reflect my usual behaviour in public."

June 28, 2006: During a council debate on public-health grants for community-based AIDS-prevention programs, Mr. Ford says: "If you're not doing needles and you're not gay, you won't get AIDS, probably."

March 7, 2007: During a council budget debate, Mr. Ford says: "What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later, you're going to get bitten. And every year we have dozens of people that get hit by cars or trucks. Well, no wonder. Roads are built for buses, cars and trucks. Not for people on bikes. And my heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day."

March 5, 2008: During a council debate over holiday shopping, Mr. Ford says: "Those Oriental people work like dogs. ? They're slowly taking over." He later corrects his use of the word "Oriental" but defends Asians as hard-working people. "When I said working like a dog, I was brought up, my father told me every day to 'Get out of bed and work like a dog, son.' A dog means you're a hard worker."

March 26, 2008: After Mr. Ford's wife, Renata, calls police to their home, Mr. Ford is arrested and charged with assaulting her and uttering a death threat. A month later, prosecutors drop the charges because inconsistencies in Ms. Ford's accounts make a conviction unlikely. "It's the happiest time in my life when my family's all together. ? That's all I wanted from the very beginning and that's what I have now," Mr. Ford tells reporters.

June 14, 2010: A poll by The Globe and Mail/CTV/CP24/Nanos puts Mr. Ford in the lead, with 17.8 per cent of support compared to rival George Smitherman's 15.9 per cent.

June 17, 2010: The Toronto Sun reports that Mr. Ford offers to help an ill man "score" the powerful painkiller OxyContin in a taped phone conversation. "I'll try buddy, I'll try," Mr. Ford tells Dieter Doneit-Henderson. "I don't know this shit, but I'll fucking try to find it." A few moments later Mr. Ford asks: "What does OxyContin go for on the street, so I have an idea?" Mr. Ford later accuses Mr. Doneit-Henderson of setting him up, saying he only suggested buying illegal narcotics to get a scary stalker off the phone.

July 14, 2010: A report in The Toronto Star says the Toronto District School Board asked Mr. Ford to stop coaching high school football after possibly roughing up a student player in 2001. Mr. Ford's campaign vehemently denies the report, saying he quit voluntarily. Mr. Ford files a notice of intent to sue The Star. Jonathan Gordon, the former student, later tells The Globe and Mail that Mr. Ford never laid a hand on him.

Aug. 4, 2010: Mr. Ford endorses the views of a fundamentalist Christian pastor who said same-sex marriage could "dismantle" a "healthy democratic civilization." Appearing alongside Pastor Wendell Brereton, Mr. Ford says: "We're together. We have the same thoughts." He adds: "I support traditional marriage. I always have. But if people want to, to each your own. I'm not worried about what people do in their private life. I look out for taxpayers' money."

Aug. 12, 2010: Mr. Ford tells The Toronto Sun that in-camera council meetings have "more corruption and skullduggery going on in there than I've ever seen in my life." He also says council's decision to award an untendered 20-year contract to a pub operator "stinks to high heaven." Mayor David Miller slams the comments, saying they are irresponsible and unsupported.

Aug. 17, 2010: During a televised mayoral debate, Mr. Ford says that in a "perfect world" Toronto would keep its population at current levels. "We can't even deal with the 2.5 million people in this city. I think it's more important that we take care of the people now before we start bringing in more."

Aug. 19, 2010: Mr. Ford says he was charged with failing to provide a breathalyzer sample and marijuana possession while visiting Florida with his then-fianc?e in 1999. However, the police arrest affidavit says he was charged with driving under the influence, not failing to provide a breathalyzer sample. Mr. Ford said he pleaded no contest to the breathalyzer charge, paid a fine and did 50 hours of community service. Mr. Ford's admission comes on the same day The Toronto Sun ran a story about the drug charge, which was later dropped.

? Aug. 19, 2010: As the campaign heads into the home stretch, Ford holds a news conference to discuss a 1999 arrest for marijuana possession in Florida. He ultimately pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and failing to give a breath sample to police.

? June 2011: Ford angers the city's gay community by declining to attend either the city's gay pride parade or the flag-raising ceremony to kick off Pride Week. Ford said he would be at the family cottage for the parade. His decision broke with tradition that saw the city's three previous mayors march in the parade.

? Jul. 26, 2011: A Toronto woman accuses Ford of giving her the finger after she asked him to get off his cellphone while driving. Ford says the incident was a misunderstanding.

? Oct. 5, 2011: Another woman accuses Ford of talking and texting on his cellphone while behind the wheel. Calls flood in for the mayor to hire a driver, but Ford declines and describes such an expense as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

? Oct. 25, 2011: Ford makes numerous calls to 911 after being accosted by a crew from CBC's "This Hour has 22 Minutes." Ford says he felt threatened by the presence of the crew and alleges they scared his daughter.

? Mar. 12, 2012: Toronto resident Paul Magder launches a lawsuit alleging Ford had a conflict of interest when he voted on a council matter involving his football charity. The matter eventually worked its way to court where Ford was found guilty of the charge, only to have the ruling overturned on appeal.

? May 2, 2012: Ford calls police after a confrontation with Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale. Ford alleged Dale was spying on him at his home, while Dale contended he was on public property next door doing research for a story. Dale alleged he was physically threatened by the mayor, a claim Ford denied.

? Sept. 19, 2012: While on an official visit to Chicago, Ford mistakenly identifies Winnipeg as a city located across the border from Detroit. Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz volunteered to give his Toronto counterpart some geography lessons, since Winnipeg is roughly 1,800 kilometres from where Ford had said.

? Nov. 6, 2012: Ford comes under fire after a Toronto Transit Commission bus was emptied of passengers and rerouted to collect his football team. Police say the decision to commandeer the bus was made by an officer and not Ford. Ford himself placed at least two calls to the head of the TTC requesting information on the bus when it failed to show up as promptly as expected.

? Mar. 8, 2013: Ford vehemently denies allegations from former mayoral rival Sarah Thomson that he touched her inappropriately during a political dinner. Thomson claimed the mayor was behaving oddly and made suggestive remarks before grabbing her.

? Mar. 24, 2013: Ford calls into a local radio show to complain about the defence tactics used in a high profile court case. Ford scorned the "not criminally responsible" defence that was successfully used on behalf of Richard Kachkar, who killed a Toronto police officer while driving a stolen snowplow. Ford's comments drew criticism from the defence lawyer, who called them "prehistoric" and took the mayor to task for speaking out as deliberations began.

? Mar. 26, 2013: Ford denies a Toronto Star report that he was turfed from an official dinner due to drunkenness and an ongoing battle with alcohol addiction. Ford described the story as an "outright lie."

? May 16, 2013: Reports surface in U.S.-based news site Gawker and later in the Toronto Star that Ford was seen on video smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. The Toronto Star also reported that Ford can be heard referring to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau in disparaging terms. The video could not be independently verified. Ford calls the drug video allegations "ridiculous."