Councillors ‘vermin’ for hypocritical praise of Ford, Mammoliti says
Posted April 1, 2016 3:46 pm.
Last Updated April 1, 2016 4:00 pm.
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It appears City Councillor Georgio Mammoliti is stepping forward to be the city’s most polarizing politician.
On Friday, Mammoliti pulled no punches in chastising a number of Toronto’s left-leaning public servants for showing respect for former Toronto mayor Rob Ford following his death last week.
In a news release titled “Dirty Half Dozen,” Mammoliti proceeds to carve into Liberal MP Adam Vaughan and five sitting city councillors who had long-standing disagreements with Ford.
“In the worst case of hypocrisy that I have witnessed,” he says, “the vermin that dwell in the underbelly of Toronto were out in full force in an exemplary display of the wickedest behaviour mankind can exhibit.”
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Mammoliti goes on to say that Shelly Carrol, Adam Vaughan, Gord Perks, Janet Davis, Joe Mihevc and Josh Matlow need to explain “how they have the face to pretend that they respected the man (Ford) when they used the previous years to attack the man instead of the message.”
While he says his criticism “is not a left-right issue,” he goes on to say that the six politicians turned their backs on Ford at his “most vulnerable point” when he was going through personal problems that included a confession to smoking crack cocaine and a trip to a rehab clinic.
“Even God was squirming in his own house with their presence,” he concludes.
Mammoliti had a mercurial relationship with Ford, and was famously called a “Gino boy” by the former mayor. He told radio host Dean Blundell that he witnessed Ford curled up in the fetal position and crying in his office, suggesting Ford was on crack at the time.
