Rob Ford for Mayor of Toronto ...... Hip hip hooray and YAH

Rob Ford has launched a website called Respect for Taxpayers and is inviting everybody who deplores the waste and mindless spending that goes on in this city, to send in any information and tips to the site, giving all sources and links of anything they thought was wasteful and good money down the drain. I am telling you here and now, before long the list at Respect For Taxpayers will be a mile long and still growing.  If you know of something that is/was a waste of money, go ahead and send the tip in.  Let's take our city back from the crooks.

Yesterday's Toronto Sun had this to say:   Councillor Rob Ford was shaking his fist at City Hall spending again Thursday. This time the mayoralty candidate was raging against an old cost he’s been trying to trim since 2001 — City Hall plant watering. Ford is livid the city spends $77,000 a year to have someone go around the Queen St. W. building watering every city-owned plant.

“I try to get rid of it every year and I can’t get rid of it,” Ford said, talking like a gardener talks about a weed that keeps coming back. “There is never a drought here at City Hall!”

The plant watering cost was the latest spending shot Ford took as part of his run to replace outgoing Mayor David Miller. Ford’s campaign team say he’ll be putting out a City Hall waste watch item each day as part of a new website he launched this week, respectfortaxpayers.com.

“(Spending) is the number one issue I hear about when I’m out campaigning,” Ford said. The Etobicoke councillor said he sees an employee watering plants, usually in the morning at City Hall.  He said the employee checks each plant for a label for proof its a city plant and then, if there is a label, gives the plant a drink of water.“If you bring your own plant from home, she doesn’t water it,” Ford said. “It’s just another example of wasting taxpayers’ money.”.....

....“They (the councillors) laugh and giggle at me,” Ford said. “But the average taxpayer isn’t laughing, that’s for sure.” ....

Here's another example of what the city councillors do with our money: Council speaker Sandra Bussin ruled out of order Wednesday a motion to make Kyle Rae pay back the $12,000 he spent on his farewell party — calling it well within the councillor’s rights to use taxpayer money to fete himself.

“The expenses incurred by Councillor Rae were permitted by the council expense policy,” Bussin said in response to a motion by Councillor Rob Ford.  She said Rae relied on advice from the city clerk prior to throwing the party — held June 7 outside his ward at the tony Rosewater Supper Club — and “proceeded in good faith” after being advised that charging the party to his $50,000 office budget was in keeping with the expense policy adopted in 2008......

Check the link above to see the names of those who voted  Yes or No