又一个市长丑闻

[Jun]

市级政治真是太逗太有料了。撇开华盛顿政治不说，前阵子圣地亚哥市长闹出骚扰女职员的丑闻被迫辞职，这两天多伦多市长 Rob Ford 的吸毒事件又闹得满世界都知道了。有人开玩笑说，这市长也太落伍了，这年头还吸 crack 可卡因。那玩意儿早在八十年代末就因为华盛顿市长 Marion Barry 而红过，有“贫民窟穷黑人才用的毒品”的名声。加拿大政客还是不如美国政客那么 glamorous ... 啊！

这几位闹丑闻的市长，除了政治站队不同，在性格方面其实完全是一类人：loud, extravagant, arrogant, charming, chauvinist. 哇啦哇啦，充满自信，特能震住人，在本地人民里广受欢迎，人人都暗自希望有个这么瞎嚷嚷的老爸。

福特市长虽然表面上十分喧哗，私人生活却非常秘密。Ford 开记者会承认自己吸毒的时候，太太也没有站在他身后陪着。

Ford was elected as Toronto's 64th mayor in 2010, and was ordered out of office two years later by a judge who found him guilty of a conflict of interest over his private football foundation. That decision was later overturned, but it served as a highlight in a public life that has seen Ford admit to reading newspapers while driving, and have to be asked to leave a party because organizers were concerned about him being drunk. (The reading-while-driving event was memorialized in a butter sculpture.)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/n ... ontroversy

奶油雕塑，在加拿大国家展览中展出。我觉得加拿大人民真的好有幽默感，难怪好莱坞的喜剧明星里十个有八个是加拿大来的。



http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/08 ... wheel.html

[笑嘻嘻]

Charming? 寒！

[Jun]

他们几个人据说都深受市民爱戴。

[vivi]

真的，事发后他的民调更高了，还要下次再选他。