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#2 — “If you don’t see a difference in me in five months, then I’ll eat my words. I’ve had a come-to-Jesus moment if you want to call it that.” – he told CBC’s Peter Mansbridge on Nov. 18, 2013

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“He never promised anyone he was going to stop, 100%,” Councillor Doug Ford, dressed with a giant sparkly green bow tie at a charity St. Patrick’s Day luncheon at the Old Mill, said of the mayor.

“I don’t think it’s an issue,” the councillor said of the mayor’s night of apparent revelry. “Obviously Rob went out for St. Paddy’s Day. He wasn’t stumbling, he did the responsible thing, he hopped in a taxi, he told someone not to run across the road.”

The councillor, who is his brother’s campaign manager for the 2014 mayoral race, later said that Rob Ford keeps all his promises, but then qualified he meant “political promises.”

The councillor did not confirm that the mayor was drinking, but said that even if he had a couple beers, he did the right thing by hopping in a taxi.

“There’s nothing wrong with it. I don’t think it’s a story.”

When reporters brought to Doug Ford’s attention the mayor’s previous vows to swear off drinking, he said: “I realize that… He never promised anyone he was going to stop, 100%.”

In actuality, the mayor has said he was “100%” done drinking in a number of interviews.

“So the people of Toronto aren’t going to see you in a state of inebriation?” CP24 host Stephen LeDrew asked in a Nov. 19 interview.