Doug Ford has angrily denounced a hoax Facebook post that promised to raffle off a date with his daughter to someone attending Rob Ford’s first campaign fundraiser.

“They’re sick individuals,” Doug Ford told reporters. “These are sick individuals that want to attack our family personally, want to go after our company, want to hack into our computers, want to go after my mother, want to go after my innocent daughters that can’t defend themselves. It’s disgusting.”

Doug Ford said he would use “all means and resources” to attempt to find the people responsible.

“I will spare no expense to hunt these folks down and bring them to justice, make them accountable,” he said.

He later acknowledged that the post was not illegal. He used the media availability to repeat his campaign message, suggesting without evidence that the post was authored by opponents of the Fords’ fiscal policy.

“This is what happens when you make changes down here, and, as I always say, you pull their hands out of the cookie jar,” he said.

The origin of the post is unclear. It appeared only on a Facebook page, “Ford Nation,” that generally posts pro-Ford messages. It was removed after Doug Ford complained, and someone who seemed to be a page administrator issued an apology.

But an administrator of a second pro-Ford Facebook page, “I Hate The War on Mayor Rob Ford,” said the first page had been “hacked and hijacked,” and that both the original post and the apology came from someone using the page “to try to discredit Ford support on Facebook.”

Doug Ford’s daughter, Krista, is in her 20s. She entered the public eye when she played briefly for a Lingerie Football League team.

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