The New Rob Ford Tape

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Now we have a few more details. Ford is reportedly suspending his campaign to go to rehab but he plans to stay on ballot. In other words, he’s not dropping out of the race. The decision appears to have been triggered by a secret recording of him drunk out of his mind at a Toronto bar Monday night in which, among other things, he talked about wanting to bed a woman, Karen Stintz, who is also running for mayor.

From the Sun

The recording, covertly taped by a patron of Sullie Gorman’s Monday night, captures the mayor being unruly as he’s ordering booze, complaining about his wife Renata and making lewd comments about mayoral contender Karen Stintz.

“I’d like to f—–g jam her (Stintz), but she doesn’t want … I can’t talk like this … I’m so sorry,” Ford says on the recording. “I forgot there’s a woman in the house.”

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