TT comment Jun 18, 2014

No shock that Burris is fawning over Jack Ford's alleged ideas to help Toledo.

Jack Ford got elected to Toledo City Council in 1993. He has been elected to state government, mayor of Toledo, Toledo Public School Board, Toledo City Council again in 2013, and he's planning to run for some state position this November.

And now JaFo has a plan for Toledo. But his 2014 plan differs from his idea back in 2007 when Jack Ford said about Toledo:

We need more white folks with middle-class paychecks.

On this blight issue, it seems that Mayor Collins and Jack Ford disagree on what to do next. Maybe Ford can break out his Malcolm X poster to intimidate Collins.

From a 2005 story

The mayor also got laughs when he talked about some white businessmen’s reactions to artwork in his office on the 22nd floor of Government Center. One is a picture of Muhammad Ali. The other is of Malcolm X, the more militant Civil Rights Movement peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"That’s so when folks come in there, I want them to see instantly what time of day it is. Literally, business guys have come in there and their legs buckle. They come in and say ‘Oh my gosh, the mayor’s got Malcolm X on his wall.’ That means we’re going to do the right thing; that’s why that picture’s up there," Mayor Ford said.