Toronto Mayor Ford featured in U.S. political attack ad
Posted Dec 3, 2013 6:48 am.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford continues to be a newsmaker in the United States, even being featured in an American political ad as what illustrating what voters don’t want in a candidate.
He also appears in a Brampton real estate ad alongside two scandal-plagued senators.
The around 30-second commercial for Republican Congressional candidate George Demos — entitled “One of Us” — opens by asking “Are you tired of politicians?” , andIt then shows a picture of Ford, along with U.S. President Barack Obama and Democratic congressman Tim Bishop.
Demos, who is a former federal prosecutor for the Securities and Exchange Commission, is running against Bishop in New York State.
Watch the ad for the video below:
According to a report in the Toronto Star, Demos’ campaign manager, Kevin Tschirhart, said part of the rationale for using Ford in the ad was because, “what we’re against is corruption in politics.”
Although Tschirhart said the ad isn’t “necessarily comparing Bishop to Ford,” but rather focuses on the fact that people are tired of “politics as usual.”
“George Demos knows the good guys from the bad. As a federal prosecutor, he threw crooks in jail because it was the right thing to do. And he’ll never vote to raise taxes or support Obamacare,” the narrator said in the ad.
The ad ends with the narrator saying, “George Demos will fight for us because he’s one of us.”
Brampton ad
Ford is also featured in an ad for a Brampton real estate agent. CityNews viewer K Loftus Bennett (@bramshar) tweeted this photo, which also shows scandal-plagued senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin.
Ford has been fodder for late-night talk show hosts in the U.S. ever since he admitted to smoking crack cocaine after months of denial and after police said they have the video allegedly showing him smoking from a crack pipe.
