He was right.
The past 30 days have been, well, insightful and full of the very "mudslinging, hatred and divisive comments" NDP Andrea Horwath keeps claiming she abhors (just before she quickly pivots and slings mud at her opponents.)
It's pretty near all been directed at Ford.
Ford's spokesperson Melissa Lantsman puts it this way: "This entire election campaign, Doug Ford has been subjected to deeply personal smears. The other parties continue to go deeper and deeper into the gutter in a desperate bid to keep the party with the taxpayer's money going at Queen's Park."
Guess in Horwath's case, it's only "mudslinging" if her rag tag group of anti-police, anti-Israel, anti-war, pro-civil-disobedience and various other nutty agenda-driven candidates are put under the microscope.
What Ford never really articulated that day, or perhaps didn't realize until thrown to the wolves, was just how intense the efforts would be.
Let's put outgoing Premier Kathleen Wynne and NDP leader Andrea Horwath aside for a moment.
In a scenario eerily similar to the presidential election that gave the United States Donald Trump, Ford has had to come up against the complicit left-wing media.
They've attacked him non-stop but have virtually given Horwath a free pass over the past 30 days as her fortunes increased in the polls, lapping up her propaganda as if it's the gospel.
I decided to join the Horwath campaign trail last week after I got sick of listening to media lob her softball questions.
Ford has been the subject of at least two social media campaigns — #notdoug and #notford, the latter one orchestrated by former TV debt counsellor Gail Vaz-Oxlade, who has gone so off the rails about a possible PC win, she told supporters on Twitter to STFU.
The big unions have been so shameless about trying to stop Doug they've taken to calling members to try to bully them into voting NDP.
I know.
I got more than one call from Unifor, our media union.
A reader who didn't want his name used said OPSEU has been doing the same.
ETFO held a virtual rally for teachers throughout Ontario last Wednesday urging them to vote (NDP) and has actually encouraged its members to volunteer on (NDP) campaigns Thursday to get out the vote.
But getting back to Wynne and Horwath, aside from their failed attempts in the early days of the campaign to paint Ford as a Trump clone, anti-immigrant and divisive, they've been downright disingenuous about the impact of his attempts to streamline government.
Never mind disingenuous. I can't believe the sheer chutzpah of the two of them as they pretend — or flat out dismiss the idea — that they had nothing to do with the sorry state of Ontario today.
I say both of them because Horwath propped up Wynne repeatedly.
I've even been told of efforts by Liberal canvassers to tell vulnerable seniors at the door that with Ford as premier rent control will no longer exist.
But the ads and the daily propaganda spewed by the two of them is downright deceitful.
I'm talking about the 20,000 jobs I've heard Horwath say will be gone under Ford.
I asked her last week where that number came from.
She said they took the four-cents on the dollar that Ford intends to reduce and extrapolated that across nurses, doctors and any other provincial public services.
"You take the 4% and you get a number," she said, claiming efficiencies is "another word for cuts." (Not that it is.)
In other words, Horwath's numbers were pulled out of thin air.
Nevertheless with the constant attempts at indoctrination of more vulnerable voters by the Liberals and NDPers, the complicit cozy media, union intimidation and social media propaganda, it's a wonder anyone can break through the noise.
Yes indeed it's been a dirty 30 days. The Ford haters must really be worried.
Tomorrow is decision day in Ontario. I've never seen an election like it. A very moderate Tory like Doug Ford is being subjected to the same radical, but well financed libel that Trump faced and still faces on a daily basis in Ontario. Unfortunately, this dishonest smear campaign of the fringe NDP will probably work. I am predicting Doug Ford will not get enough seats to win and Horvath will be propped up by the few victorious Fiberals.
