【减字木兰花】阴晴说月

[连南河]

【减字木兰花】阴晴说月

有感于多市市长补选：为3150元的小事去花费纳税人700万元的市长补选费。支持Ford！

阴晴说月，
共道人间圆又缺。
碧草流光，
喜上眉梢心更狂。


江湖雪处，
气涌乡城惊水鹭。
电线乌鸦，
昏脑低头映落霞。


Jan 5, 2013 Hormish Garden of Toronto（南河书院）9:00-10:00 pm
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一路雨丝一路风

[qinghongh]

聪明一世糊涂一时。

[笑聊]

问好！学习。

[连南河]

难得糊涂，问候二位诗友！

Rob Ford wins appeal, remains Toronto mayor福特赢上诉，维持多伦多市长
By Matthew Coutts （Fri., Jan. 25, 2013）

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Controversial politician Rob Ford will remain the mayor of Toronto, after a three-judge divisional court panel rejected a previous court ruling.
A decision made public on Friday found that Justice Charles Hackland erred when he found that Ford breached the conflict of interest act when he debated and voted on a motion to force him to pay back $3,150 in questionable he collected for his private charity.
The ruling, posted online, states:
[W]e conclude that the application judge erred in finding that Mr. Ford contravened the MCIA. Accordingly, we would allow the appeal.
Ford told reporters on Thursday that he had been looking forward to learning the court’s decision.
"I believe in the judicial system and let’s hope for the best," Ford told reporters, according to CBC News.

[ Related: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to learn fate in conflict appeal ]
The complaint was originally brought forward by private citizen Paul Magder and championed by seasoned litigator Clayton Ruby last year in connection to a series of donations collected for Ford's personal charity beginning in 2009, while Ford was a city councillor.
The debate stemmed from $3,150 in donations to Ford's football foundation that he raised by using city letterhead and, allegedly, his clout as a city councillor. The city's integrity commissioner found the money to have been collected inappropriately and ordered Ford to repay it.
Hackland ruled that Ford's decision to participate in a debate, then as mayor, over whether he should be forced to pay back that money constituted a conflict of interest punishable by expulsion from city hall.
[ Related: Toronto City Hall plays waiting game on Rob Ford verdict ]
Ford’s phoenix-like resurrection put an interesting twiston politics at city hall.
There will be a certain amount of boot-licking now that he is out of the fire, and perhaps some level of conciliation on the part of the mayor.
Ford still faces a case into improper spending during his 2010 mayoral campaign, which could yet see him thrown from office. The Toronto Star reports that the audit into his finances is expected next week.
Friday’s ruling certainly accomplished one thing: it set city hall on a course to stability, something that has been perceived to be lacking for some time.
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一路雨丝一路风

[qinghongh]

福特为了区区几千元（还并不是入了自己腰包），差点掉了官帽，这次暂时躲过一劫。中国的官员看了福特的遭遇不知是应该庆幸还是应该汗颜？

[黄洋界]

月本有圆缺，人应有圆通。连南君所见极是。
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[秋叶]