Toronto mayor Ford loses two more staff members
Posted May 30, 2013 03:10:55 PM.
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TORONTO – Mayor Rob Ford has lost two more staff members from his office in the wake of the alleged drug video scandal.
Ford’s Policy Advisor and Council Relations advisor Brian Johnston resigned, Thursday. Shortly after that, Kia Nejatian, Rob Ford’s executive assistant also resigned.
Johnston and Nejatian join three others who have recently left city hall.
On Monday, the mayor’s press secretary George Christopoulos and his deputy press secretary Isaac Ransom quit. And Ford’s chief of staff Mark Towhey was fired last Thursday.
In response, Premier Kathleen Wynne has vowed she will take any necessary action to restore order to Toronto council.
“I believe what is happening now at city hall is interrupting the business of city hall,” she said at Queen’s Park.
Ford is embroiled in a scandal over an alleged video of him apparently smoking crack cocaine, which he denied after a week-long silence.
A report that his brother, Coun. Doug Ford, used to deal hashish in the 1980s also surfaced on Saturday, but he has denied The Globe and Mail allegation.
The Toronto Star has said the alleged video could be linked to a murder. Anthony Smith, 21, was gunned down in Toronto on March and it appears that he was filmed in the video and may have been its owner.
