Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was featured in an American political attack ad Monday as the embodiment of an unwanted politician.

The roughly 30-second ad for Republican congressional candidate George Demos called “One of Us” opens with a narrator asking if viewers are, “tired of politicians?” It then features a picture of Rob Ford, alongside President Barack Obama and democratic congressman Tim Bishop.

The ad features Demos, formerly a federal prosecutor for the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is challenging Bishop in New York's 1st congressional district.

Since admitting to smoking crack cocaine, Rob Ford has captured headlines internationally and been the butt of jokes on American late night talk shows.

In a phone interview with the Star, Kevin Tschirhart, George Demos’ campaign manager said part of the reasoning behind featuring Ford in the ad was because, “what we’re against is corruption in politics.”

“People want candidates who are going to get work done and are going to stand for what’s right,” Tschirhart said. “I wouldn’t say we’re necessarily comparing Bishop to Ford.”

He added that the focus of the ad was that people are tired of “politics as usual” and they chose their opponent as well as two other high-profile politicians.

The ad doesn’t make any other comparisons between Bishop and Ford, but the narrator says “George Demos knows the good guys from the bad. As a federal prosecutor, he threw crooks in jail because it was the right thing to do. And he'll never vote to raise taxes or support Obamacare."

It ends with the narrator saying, “George Demos will fight for us because he's one of us.”

On CNN, Ford has been called the “crack-smoking mayor,” “poster child of bad behaviour,” and “most controversial politician.”

“I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoke some crack sometime. What can I say? I made a mistake, I’m human. I’m only human,” Ford said.

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He told Fox News that he made mistakes, was getting professional help and wanted to run for prime minister.

Ford has been the subject of jabs by Jay Leno, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman, Saturday Night Live as well as an eight-minute segment by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

“Wait, smoking crack gives you powers?” Stewart said. “Are those powers an unquenchable thirst for crack? Oddly in Mayor Ford’s case, with great powers comes very little responsibility.”