Rob Ford took a photo with a neo-Nazi (but he didn’t know he was a neo-Nazi)

Rob Ford took a photo with a neo-Nazi (but he didn’t know he was a neo-Nazi)

Rob Ford’s pseudo-scandals keep getting stranger and stranger. Apparently, at the 2012 New Year’s Levee, the mayor met and took photos with some 800 members of the public—one of whom, unbeknownst to Ford, was a white supremacist. Author and Liberal insider Warren Kinsella found the photo on Facebook and called out Ford on his blog this morning, pointing out that Jon Latvis, the man in the photo, is a former member of a neo-Nazi band and has a swastika tattoo. Cue a frothed-up reaction from the Twitterverse—which seems pretty unfair considering that Ford poses for photos with thousands of residents each year and, according to an official statement, had no idea about Latvis’s views (which we guess he didn’t voice as they were smiling for the camera, though perhaps his uniform should have been a clue). [WarrenKinsella.com]

Here’s the full statement from the mayor’s office: