2. Renata Ford is the widow of Rob Ford (1969-2016), best known to the world as the crack-smoking mayor of Toronto. But there is more to the Rob Ford story.
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3. Rob Ford was the dubious scion of a wealthy Toronto family, a failson who couldn't run his business so went into politics as a right-wing faux-populist of a familiar type (vulgar, anti-PC, corrupt). And, oh yeah, a man who abused his wife.
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4. I don't want to get into details about how Rob Ford abused his wife (which are disturbing) but there was physical abuse & also humiliation (telling his cronies they could have sex with her & talking to press about their sex life
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5. Rob Ford died in 2016 but now his brother Doug (might be described as Rob Ford without the addiction problem and a meaner personality) is running to be premier of Ontario (a position roughly equivalent to Governor).
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6. The Ontario election is very, very close with Ford's Conservative party in dead heat with NDP (but enjoying a geographical edge). Election is in three days. And what does Renata Ford do? She sues her brother-in-law.
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7. Renata Ford is suing Doug Ford for $16.5 million, claiming that Doug mismanaged family business (an accusation that goes to heart of his campaign promise to run Ontario like a business). https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/06/04/rob-fords-widow-sues-doug-ford-alleging-he-has-deprived-them-of-millions.html …
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8. We'll see if Renata Ford's June surprise influences the election or not. But Ontario is certainly having a wild ride.
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Almost spat out my tea when i saw this!
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Too late to have an effect I wonder? Could also court back- lash-- among males. Stranger things have happened-- his election cycle has had everything!
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Unlikely, no: she isn't some "gold-digger ex" as per certain misogynists' stereotypes, she's a widow. I suspect many men will take a dim view of depriving their populist hero's widow and her children of the necessities of life.
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