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At the early May Reena Foundation fundraiser, two days before the writ was dropped, PC leader Doug Ford mentioned to me he knew his opponents would throw everything dirty they could at him during the Ontario election campaign.

He was right.

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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.