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With serious accusations being hurled throughout the media and mass resignations hitting Rob Ford’s office, a senior Ford staffer said the mayor’s former chief of staff is out to “kill the mayor, politically and otherwise.”

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A Toronto politician recently suggested to me that I was “overlooking the obvious” in my confusion over the Ontario Progressive Conservatives’ stated affinity for Doug Blunderbuss Ford as a candidate in the next provincial election. The “obvious” was that the family Ford is something of a juggernaut on the fundraising side of the equation.

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The source said Mark Towhey, who was fired by the mayor last week, has an “axe to grind” with the mayor’s office and accused him of leaking “revisionist history” in the Toronto Star.

“He’s trying to blame everyone else for where he is,” the source told the National Post, who would only speak on condition of anonymity, citing the ‘no on-the-record’ atmosphere within the mayor’s office.

When asked for someone to speak on-the-record, the source would only refer Councillor Doug Ford, the mayor’s brother.

“You are not going to get anything out of Mayor Ford,” the source said.

The Post made many attempts to contact Towhey Thursday, but had not heard back at the time of publication. Towhey was active on Twitter throughout the day.