Breaking: Mayor Tory Steps Down.

Anbarandy

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Stop right there. He's not. You're creating a fake scenario. The man has been married for almost half a century.

Stop trying to talk around the reality of the situation.
Bravo!

Stop him in his epic journeys to "what if-villes" lest we find ourselves stuck inside a Dodge Charger barreling down a street in Charlottesville.
 
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Anbarandy

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I haven't read the 15 pages in this thread, so I'm not sure if this has been mentioned already. From a friend who works close to the Mayor's office, it was common knowledge that Tory and Barb had been living separate lives for a while. She's been living at their place in Florida and many knew about the affair.

Personally, I don't care if he was banging a 31 year-old. I'm reading how bent out of shape some people are getting over this. I actually find it quite amusing at the outrage.

For those who don't like Tory and think he's messed up the city. Careful what you wish for. The next Mayor could be far worse.
From Mel Lastman, Rob Ford and John Tory to Denzil Minan-Wrong, Frances Nutz-iata, Jon Burntupside, Gary Crawfish, Steven Holyshitusay?
 
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Bravo!

Stop him in his epic journeys to "what if-villes" lest we find ourselves stuck inside a Dodge Charger barreling down a street in Charlottesville.
Silly.
 

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I haven't read the 15 pages in this thread, so I'm not sure if this has been mentioned already. From a friend who works close to the Mayor's office, it was common knowledge that Tory and Barb had been living separate lives for a while. She's been living at their place in Florida and many knew about the affair.

Personally, I don't care if he was banging a 31 year-old. I'm reading how bent out of shape some people are getting over this. I actually find it quite amusing at the outrage.

For those who don't like Tory and think he's messed up the city. Careful what you wish for. The next Mayor could be far worse.
It's not the affair so much itself but the circumstances of the affair.

Tory was fucking his employee and considering the position of power that he's in ie) Mayor of the economic powerhouse and largest fucking city in Canada, that's a huge lapse in judgement. You think his side piece didn't benefit in some way or could have used the compromising position she had him in to benefit?
 

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Yes, Tory's ultimate goal has been achieved.
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Yes, Tory's ultimate goal has been achieved.
Now my goal is achieved. Ding ding it's over. See post 25 of the following thread. Squeezer simply beat you to it but you would have written almost the same thing.

 

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It's not the affair so much itself but the circumstances of the affair.

Tory was fucking his employee and considering the position of power that he's in ie) Mayor of the economic powerhouse and largest fucking city in Canada, that's a huge lapse in judgement. You think his side piece didn't benefit in some way or could have used the compromising position she had him in to benefit?
In the grand scheme of things, I really don't care.
 

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medalllione

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Damn, if he paid some hush money then there was no need to resign!!
Agree. I can think of an example down south that did the same thing, kept his job as the most powerful man in the world. Plans to run for Office again no less, half the country will still vote for him, accusations of adultery be damned. Why is Johnny any different? Adultery is no longer a mortal sin in 2023.
 
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It would be hard to part with half his money, no matter how many people might tell him that life will actually be better, especially when there's no better woman waiting for him.
Given his profile, he is likely loaded with money, I bet he can live comfortably with half his accumulated wealth (if he is not grabbed quickly to serve on any one of several board of directors of a Fortune 500 company) and I can guarantee that there will be women willing and waiting in the wings to happily cavort with and spend his money.
 
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Tory was a good mayor thus far, well accomplished and was in the process ( technical still is) in working on the 2023 budget.
However he put his own head on a platter by his actions and voluntarily said he would resign.
Tory full well knew the game, the consequences and hoisted himself with his own petar. This is how the electoral process works and if a worse mayor comes than so be it.

It doesn’t matter if some of the public forgives him or not, he wants to go and should go as he will increasingly morph into a ‘lame duck” mayor if he decides to linger. The Mayoral- MLSE trail will be intensify and further handicap Tory as time goes by.

Likely more than one lady has spread her legs on Mayor Tory’s casting couch in the past and more scandals maybe coming.
Tory’s family life is neither here nor there in this egregious lapse of judgment which will cost the City of Toronto hundreds of millions of dollars if he stays or goes.
 
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Given his profile, he is likely loaded with money, I bet he can live comfortably with half his accumulated wealth (if he is not grabbed quickly to serve on any one of several board of directors of a Fortune 500 company) and I can guarantee that there will be women willing and waiting in the wings to happily cavort with and spend his money.
He will still get his Rogers salary, I'm sure that's all he really needs to live on.
Hopefully he does resign and we get someone less Ford like in office.
 

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Here's a link to Toronto Council's Code of Conduct: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/accountability-officers/integrity-commissioner/code-of-conduct-for-members-of-council/#:~:text=Members should act with integrity,and bears close public scrutiny.

These isn't anything there that explicitly prevents politicians from having relationships with staff. There's just an obligation to avoid conflicts of interest and to act in a way that bolsters public confidence. I doubt they could have removed Tory for breach of the Code. I say this as someone who doesn't like Tory personally or like his policies for the city. (I would also concede that there are certainly FAR worse options, 2 of which have already said they are considering running). I read the Sanfiro web material that someone else linked, but frankly, like Sanfiro always is, the material is a little contradictory and superficial. Goes with the territory of representing the employee side of employment law disputes.

I think the decision to step down is ENTIRELY about Tory trying to avoid getting fleeced by a divorce. He needs to give Barb 100% of what she wants right now, including his time and the right optics, if he has any shot at that. Frankly, I'd say his chances are poor. She probably knew that John was getting serviced elsewhere (what else would an intelligent woman think when she isn't taking care of business?). Why else would she vamoose to Florida all through Covid? As usual, her "horrified" reaction is likely more about the public exposure that they have a sexless/loveless marriage than about the reality that she probably is mostly to blame for that.

The reality is that we live in a society where a woman can completely let her husband down sexually/emotionally, but men are considered to be the villains when they solve the problem their wife created.

Her decision whether to divorce Tory will be mostly about whether she's happier with 50% of his money and an open calendar vs. 100% of his money and lots of events in posh social circles. Might be a hard decision for her. It will have nothing to do with whether they can rekindle any romantic relationship, cause that's deader than Dead John A. MacDonald!
Rumour is Barb isn't innocent of these things either. More likely is Tory is dealing with an extortion demand that failed and he knows he can't govern because of the scandal with an employee junior to him. Best for all that he walks
 
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