Quote No. 1:
“If I had a baseball bat, I’d beat the f—er down to the f—ing ground. I mean, it
would take me just a little bit to get a f—ing
gun and blow his f—ing head out.
That’s how p—ed off I am.”
Quote No.
2:
“I’ll
rip his f—ing throat out. I’ll poke his eyes out…I’ll make sure that
motherf—er’s dead. … I need f—ing 10 minutes to make sure he’s dead.
It’ll be over in five minutes.”
Both of these quotes come not from cold-hearted gangsters
but from foul-mouthed big-city mayors who apparently fantasize in private about
going all Mafia-like on their political enemies. In both cases, their rants
were secretly recorded and then made very, very public.
The second quote is from Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who’s
been besieged by reporters for months after allegations first surfaced (later
verified) that he used crack cocaine. The quote surfaced on Thursday when the
Toronto Star’s newspaper website posted an 80-second video clip of the
politician shot from a cell phone.
The first quote above is from Warren Mayor Jim Fouts, whose
rant was secretly recorded (over the phone) earlier this year by a high-ranking
City Hall official who feared that Fouts had gradually become unhinged.
The difference between these two excitable mayors is
this:
Ford was “extremely, extremely inebriated” – and possibly
high on cocaine – at the time he engaged in death threats.
Fouts, who doesn’t drink, was stone cold sober and influenced
only by his raging ego.

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