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Despite the call for him to step aside after he publicly admitted Tuesday using crack cocaine, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said he will not step down and will run for re-election next year.
"I was elected to do a job and that is exactly what I am going to continue doing," he said during a news conference Tuesday at his office. "We live in a democracy and on October 27, 2014, I want the people of this great city to decide if they want Rob Ford to be their mayor."
Earlier Tuesday, after months of dodging allegations, Ford told reporters that he smoked crack cocaine about a year ago -- probably, he said, during a "drunken stupor."
"Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But ... do I? Am I an addict? No," Ford said.
"Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago," he said about the cocaine use.
SOURCE: CNN
Read more at http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/05/world/americas/canada-toronto-mayor-crack/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
"I was elected to do a job and that is exactly what I am going to continue doing," he said during a news conference Tuesday at his office. "We live in a democracy and on October 27, 2014, I want the people of this great city to decide if they want Rob Ford to be their mayor."
Earlier Tuesday, after months of dodging allegations, Ford told reporters that he smoked crack cocaine about a year ago -- probably, he said, during a "drunken stupor."
"Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But ... do I? Am I an addict? No," Ford said.
"Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago," he said about the cocaine use.
SOURCE: CNN
Read more at http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/05/world/americas/canada-toronto-mayor-crack/index.html?hpt=hp_t3