Councillor Doug Ford alleged Friday that Mayor Rob Ford is the victim of a conspiracy and denied that his brother has used heroin or was hanging out with gang members.
Ford — the mayor's most vocal defender — spent around 10 minutes defending the mayor to reporters at City Hall as Rob Ford again refused to address the latest allegations contained on police documents released by a judge.
The mayor — who was approached by media seven times Friday at City Hall and at a public works presser — ignored questions about claims he tried to buy the crack video, that he hung out in a crack house, that Sandro Lisi allegedly traded pot for the mayor's stolen cellphone and that he may have used heroin and crack as recently as April 20.
"In my opinion, this is a clear, clear agenda, a very well-organized agenda from some of our competitors," Councillor Ford said. "In my opinion they don't want Rob Ford here."
He called Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair "very political" and accused him of having "an agenda, in my opinion, to get rid of the mayor."
"The people are going to decide not the media, not the police chief and not the self-serving politicians down here and you guys lose track of the people — you think you can put one over the people's eyes but the people get your game," he said.
Asked if the mayor has tried heroin, Ford said he hasn't.
"The mayor is not hanging out with gang members," he added. "He is focused, he is going to events."
When he was asked if the mayor has hung out with gang members since being elected in 2010 as the police document released Wednesday alleged, Ford again issued a denial.
Asked directly by the Sun why the mayor was allegedly hanging out in a crack house in Etobicoke, Ford took a shot at the newspaper.
"Your paper has gone a little offside," he said.
He went on to slam the city's entire media for its "Soviet Stalin-era, Pravda journalism."
"You don't talk to the common folk like we do from one end of the city to the other," Ford said. "You don't go to the events that the mayor goes to, like we have every night, where he walks in there (and) he's a rock star."
He argued the media was "beating a dead horse" by trying to ask the mayor about the crack scandal allegations.
"The mayor has not been charged, he wasn't on the wiretaps ... he has apologized very clearly, he's moving on," Ford said.
The Etobicoke North (Ward 2) councillor said the mayor is "feeling healthier than he ever has."
"He's focused on his diet plan, he's focused on working out two hours a day," he said. "You know something? He's of healthy mind and he's moving forward.
"In my humble opinion ... if Rob Ford stays the course, he drops 60 to 70 pounds, looking good, he's going to win the next election."
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