His character flaws, ie: lack of integrity, lack of responsibility, lack of morals and ethics, lack of personal and public accountability, bullying/threatening/intimidating nature, sense of personal entitlement that borders on psychosis and so on, are the real issues at play here. A deeply disturbed and flawed individual which took decades in the making and which will not just take 'substance abuse intervention' to adjust if at all possible.
Let's get real, all we are seeing through scandal after scandal and his tenure as councilor and mayor are just the symptoms of his real problems of which I have illustrated above which arise from his deeply rooted and decayed core.
Facts that have nothing to do with'substance abuse':
- Lied about cocaine use and trashed and vilified those who did their jobs and reported the facts.
- A sense of personal entitlement that he believes he has the right to bend reality itself to his needs and wishes.
- A brutal and conscious assault on democracy itself.
- A natural inclination to lie and cheat with a cloak of authority and undying consistency.
- A level of behavior that has run roughshod over the bounds of decency.
- Malicious falsification and threats to undermine democracy.
- A mayor whose every word has been a lie. His gravy train campaign was a lie. His boast of saving taxpayers money? Another fabrication. His pledge to stand up to gangs and guns and keep the city safe on the many tragic occasions when violence has exploded on the streets is beyond painful to recall.
- His whole political life is a lie, including whether he even shows up at work or not. Not astonishingly, the mayor and his brother have attempted to undermine every institution, rule, procedure or individual that has stood in the way of their countless transgressions. Bully robo-calls to sabotage those who don’t do his bidding on council. Violated election spending laws. Disparaging the city’s integrity commissioner for exposing his use of public office for private fundraising. His brother has demeaned the medical officer of health and undermined the authority of the chief of police. The list is exhausting.
- They have both incessantly used their authority to insult the integrity of the news media for doing their job of informing the public and reporting these facts.
- An insatiable hunger for power by any means necessary. In his unhindered feeding of that appetite, he has proven himself a democracy-devouring despot at heart.
