Rob Ford, the Toronto Mayor who was asked to step down from office after admitting he smoked crack "in a drunken stupor" was the first candidate to show up at City Hall to register for the city's municipal election scheduled on October 27, according to MSN News.
Ford was the first candidate to register his name when City Hall opened on Thursday, January 2 despite pressure to resign because of drug use and erratic behavior, the report said.
According to the Toronto Star, the controversial mayor promised "Ford more year" and called himself "the best mayor this city ever had."
"If you want to get personal, that's fine," Ford told reporters, according to the Star. "I'm sticking to my record, and talk is cheap. You're going to see action like you've never seen before."
On Twitter, however, Ford was more restrained. He tweeted a photo of himself signing up for his re-election bid and tweeted, "Just filed my paperwork for the 2014 election. Vote on October 27th."
Ford, a conservative mayor of Canada's largest city, has said he would run again, after it was revealed that he used drugs, which put him into the international media spotlight. News reports in May last year said that there was a video showing Ford was smoking from a crack pipe the existence of which Ford had denied. In October, Ford admitted his drug use after Toronto police announced they had obtained a copy of the video that was reported.
According to reports, Toronto's City Council stripped Ford of most of his powers, but the Mayor continues to receive support from some in the city's more conservative suburbs.
There were mixed reactions to Ford's bid for re-election last Thursday.
"That pathetic excuse for a mayor should get the hell out and stop embarrassing this beautiful city," Inna Evtoushenko, 36, a Toronto resident, said in an interview.
However, another Toronto resident, Derek Killins, disagreed.
"Other than embarrass the hell out of himself and the city as a public figure, has he done anything pertaining to his job that was detrimental to the city's well-being from a financial or economical standpoint?" Killins said. "Most people I ask say that he's done a good job for the city otherwise."
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