Rob Ford Leaves Mayoralty Race As Yet Another Crack Video Emerges
Toronto's embattled mayor is "taking a break" from the race, to get "some help" as yet another video of the mayor appears with him smoking crack.
It remains to be seen if this is the end of the Rob Ford phenomenon, or just another chapter in the ongoing saga.
A second video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what has been described as crack-cocaine by a self-professed drug dealer was secretly filmed in his sister’s basement early Saturday morning.
The clip, which was viewed by two Globe and Mail reporters, shows Mr. Ford taking a drag from a long copper-coloured pipe, exhaling a cloud of smoke, his right arm convulsing. The footage is part of a package of three videos the dealer said was surreptitiously filmed around 1:15 a.m., and which he says he is now selling for “at least six figures.”
Mr. Ford declined to answer questions from The Globe and Mail. Less than an hour after The Globe asked the mayor for comment, his lawyer, Dennis Morris, said Mr. Ford is planning to “take a break” from the mayoral election.