TORONTO

The Ford brothers waged their mayoral campaigns last year spending more than $750,000 out of their own pockets.

Final election financial disclosures filed with the city this month show Rob Ford and Doug Ford ended up having to shell out a combined total of $772,819 for their separate runs for the mayor’s chair in 2014.

Rob Ford spent a total of $437,977.91 running for mayor from January until a cancer diagnosis forced him out of the race in September.

In the end, the now-former mayor had to shell out $213,138 for his campaign after raising $208,770 in donations before and after election day.

Doug Ford — who joined the mayor’s race in September, the day his brother dropped out — ended up raising $356,167 in donations and spending $558,724 of his own cash on his $914,892 campaign.

Despite losing more than half a million dollars and the election, Doug Ford said he had no regrets.

“I’d do it again in heartbeat,” he told the Sun on Friday. “And I will do it again one time no matter if it is federally, provincially or municipally.”

The ex-councillor said it doesn’t bother him that Tory wouldn’t agree to hosting a harmony dinner to help pay off the debts of the campaigns after winning the election.

“I’m just frustrated that he broke every promise and he lied,” Ford said Friday.

Ford called Tory’s backing away from privatizing trash collection “a joke.”

“I sat beside him numerous times, he jumped up and down about how he was going to outsource the garbage,” Ford said. “He doesn’t have the backbones with the union.”

Rob Ford said he had to pay the fundraising shortfall.

“You get in this game, sometimes it costs you money,” said Councillor Ford.

“People have got to be careful, they’ve got to think twice before they get into this game because they can get hosed. I’m not saying I got hosed, I owed the bill … I appreciate the people that did help me out but it’s expensive.

“I’m out a quarter of a million bucks, what are you going to do?”

Ford shrugged off the fact Tory wouldn’t agree to a harmony dinner after the election to help raise funds to pay off his rivals’ campaigns.

“I wouldn’t even want him at the dinner,” he said.

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Here’s a rundown of what each of the six main mayoral players spent on the 2014 election:

Spending limit for mayoral campaigns: $1.36 million

(Note: Campaigns can spend more than the spending limit on expenses not subject to the limit including the cost of fundraising activities and various other costs.)

John Tory

Total spent: $2,795,862.89

Total campaign income: $2,860,306.71

Personal contribution: 0

Surplus: $67,343.06

Doug Ford

Total spent: $932,551.80

Total campaign income: $932,551.80

Personal contribution: $558,724.73

Surplus: 0

Rob Ford

Total spent: $437,977.91

Total campaign income: $437,977.91

Personal contribution: $213,138.66

Surplus: 0

Olivia Chow

Total spent: $1,915,341.29

Total campaign income: $1,905,113.74

Personal contribution: $2,500

Surplus: 0

David Soknacki

Total spent: $387.857.46

Total campaign income: $150.926 50

Personal contribution: 0

Deficit: -$236.730 96

Karen Stintz

Total spent: $242,164.32

Total campaign income: $244,742

Personal contribution: 0

Surplus: $2,577.68

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Doug Ford says Mayor John Tory is lucky he only has one Ford brother to deal with at Toronto City Hall.

The tough-talking former councillor who came second to Tory in the election for mayor last year was still seething Friday in the wake of the public works committee, with Tory’s blessing, voting to put off the push to contract out trash collection until at least late 2016.

During the 2014 campaign, both Tory and Ford promised to contract out more of the city’s garbage collection. Councillor Rob Ford has already blasted Tory this week for failing to deliver on his campaign promise and vowed to give him a “drumming” in the 2018 election.

“Tory is fortunate about one thing, that I’m not down there with Rob,” Doug Ford said Friday. “What he doesn’t realize ... is that Rob Ford is in his glory going after these guys — he did it for 14 years. He is just on his game. Matter of fact, he’s in a good mood and it is excellent therapy for him. He’s in his glory doing this.

“He’s just begun and the better he’s feeling, I feel sorry for Tory.”

Doug then admitted that he doesn’t actually feel sorry for the current mayor.

“No, I don’t but Rob’s going to beat him like the little drummer boy at Christmas,” Ford said.