I am coming to you live from the elevator in front of the mayor’s
office. We just attempted to hand Mayor Rob Ford the Duke award as he
disembarked surrounded by security. He did not respond. He must not
have seen the beautiful statue. We are waiting here for him to leave
again.
I am proud to report that we were joined by two TPM readers, Ed and
Greg. We also gave some interviews to the Canadian media, who are
clearly excited about the Duke awards.
“Mayor Ford, I have an award for you!” I shouted as Rob Ford stood in
his glass-walled office at Toronto City Hall Friday morning. “Would
you like to come get your Golden Duke?”
My first attempt to present Ford with TPM’s Golden Duke award for the
best scandal of 2013 had come a few minutes earlier as he disembarked an
elevator and entered his office ahead of a council meeting. A team of
burly bodyguards and lines of velvet ropes kept a crowd of reporters
who shouted questions away from the mayor.
“Mayor Ford, I have an award for you,” I had called out as he and his
entourage walked past, adding, “It’s for your scandal.”
The TPM delegation to Canada has sent back video of its envoying efforts, from last night’s tour of Toronto landmarks in Rob Ford world to this morning’s attempts to present Mayor Ford with his hard-earned Golden Duke statuette. Bringing two countries closer together, one political scandal at a time.
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Hundreds if not thousands of documents subpoenaed in the Chris Christie bridge scandal have been posted online by the state legislative committee investigating the matter. Here they are.
We’re asking readers who are going through them to email us at talk at talkingpointsmemo.com with specific documents from the batch that deserve special attention.
Find something good? Email us.
Put “Christie Docs” in the subject line of your email. Please identify which document you’re referring to by exhibit and page number. Thanks in advance.
It is my honor to tell you that the Golden Duke trophy was delivered Friday afternoon.
Following our many unsuccessful efforts to find Mayor Rob Ford and present him with the Golden Duke award for the best scandal of 2013, TPM’s Toronto delegation gave the trophy to Ford’s brother, Councillor Doug Ford, who promised he would pass the award along to his sibling.
I am not sure which document he was referring to yet. But Joe Johns on CNN just filed a report in which he seemed to say that Port Authority Police were telling angry commuters that the idea for the shutdown came from Mayor Sokolich.
We’ve completed uploading all the documents released today. So if you’ve been helping go through them — or want to — they’re all here now.
Something odd’s happening in the Christie bridge scandal. As the number of people involved in ordering and then covering up the bridge closure grows, the would-be target of the action seems to shrink. Something doesn’t fit.