You do recall correctly, but he’d already been caught more than once attending parties and nightclubs w/ various drugs, prostitutes, and related stuff. Throw into the mix a lot of crony-ism, and questionable accounting on the part of DC government, and it’s hard for me to get in Barry’s camp. I can’t say he did all bad; he identified and cleaned up a lot of the graft and corruption from previous administrations, and streamlined the government and various departments. In the end though, once he got out of his six-months in jail, he put on African robes, took to the streets as “one of the people” and got re-elected. Once back in office, the city was in such poor shape that most of the control got turned over to a financial control board, who cleaned house in a display of government efficiency that has yet to be rivaled.
Huh, I’ve just had the horrible suspicion that if Ford doesn’t get re-elected, Toronto could end up with someone even worse.
