Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

[Gyan Guru]

Which member here is John :he:

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/20/councillor-tweets-about--hot-chicks
TORONTO - A Toronto city councillor is in hot water with Mayor Rob Ford after tweeting about “hot chicks.”

Councillor John Parker posted and then removed a tweet from his Twitter page about unveiling heritage plaques with attractive women at City Hall on Monday.

“Delighted and honoured to help unveil eight new Toronto heritage plaques and meet hot chicks in the bargain. I love my job,” Parker, city council’s deputy speaker, tweeted shortly after the event.

The post was promptly taken down from Parker’s Twitter site, @johnparker26, after the media started contacting his office.

It isn’t clear who exactly Parker was describing as “hot chicks” at the event attended by several female Heritage Toronto staff members.

Ford didn’t hesitate to call Parker’s tweet inappropriate.

“I’ll talk to John and I’m sure he’ll apologize,” Ford told reporters.

Pulled out of a meeting at his City Hall office, Parker said the focus should be on the eight plaques unveiled Monday to honour Torontonians, not something he posted on Twitter.

Asked why he took the tweet down, Parker said he wasn’t “sure that the words were the best ones for the occasion and I was happy to withdraw them.”

But Parker stopped short of apologizing.

“I have no such plans, the words are down,” he added. “The words were meant in good fun and good faith and no harm was intended. As far as I’m aware no offence has been taken.

“I’m just sorry that any of this distracts anyone from the importance of the day’s event.”

The legacy plaques honoured Celia Franca, Jane Jacobs, William James, E. J. Lennox, Marshall McLuhan, Harry Somers, Tom Thomson and J. Tuzo Wilson.

Along with official pronouncements, Parker’s Twitter account often features witty or wry observations.

Parker dismissed any notion Monday’s tweet was a lesson for him about where to draw the line with social media.

“It really depends on how people like you choose to play it,” he insisted. “If the lesson of the day is you can’t have any fun around here, then no one is going to have any fun. If people are going to look for ways to take offence in circumstances where no offence is intended and no offence has been taken and third parties insist in finding offence on their own, that’s a bad day for all of us.”

 

[Sam Taylor]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

Hmmm, he refused to apologize. The man has balls, not sure if it is good or not for him for his career.

 

[Erica =)]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

Good for him not apologizing.
It might have been inappropriate but it wasn't behaviour to be ashamed of. The words aren't going on a plaque or written into a by-law.

 

[future]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

If the women to whom he was referring aren't offended, I don't see why anyone else would be. :neutral:

 

[Tannaz]

Looks like he changed his tune.

"Councillor John Parker apologized Tuesday for causing offence with a Monday Twitter post in which he said he met “hot chicks” at a Heritage Toronto event at City Hall."

"Parker said, “I apologize for any offence I’ve caused.” Asked if he was apologizing for his words or only for offending people, he said, “I think I’ve learned a lesson there. It was all meant in good fun, and in a spirit of jocularity. I’ve learned something.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/article...izes-for-offending-with-hot-chicks-tweet?bn=1

 

[salus]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

Amen...it's often those 3rd parties that stir up all the shit!

 

[adeu_love-2009]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

ummm who cares if someone was offended? No matter what you say, there will always be someone somewhere that will take offence. So if someone is worried about offending someone, they should never speak, write, post, or converse.....

Here I thought "freedom of speech" was in our charter of rights and freedoms...guess not eh?

 

[manutd_4_life]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

wtf are you jumping all over me for? I didn't take offense, nor do I understand why anyone else did.

See tboy, there are some people who actually make an effort to choose their words carefully, so even if they are saying something harsh, they are at least trying to minimize the damage their words could do.

It's obvious you don't place that particular burden upon yourself, so I can see why it might be hard for you to understand.

 

[darkmousyfan]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

why are you taking offence? lol.....I wasn't jumping all over you, I was merely stating my opinion that "who cares if someone took offence"????

You're right, you DO need to get laid lol......

(looks up an online pharmacy that can ship midol out within the hour )

 

[Sonal]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

I can't deny I'm having a bit of an episode. :tongue:

 

[KellahPanda]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

Yet Mayor Ford had his picture taken with his niece who will be in lingerie football, not to mention posted the picture on Facebook?

Interesting.

I might just have to find the picture and make a 'Hot Chick' comment.

 

[RadTech - BAS RT(R)(ARRT)]

Councillor tweets about "hot chicks"

That's hilarious, espessically the fact that anyone would care. If
I were Mayor, I would talk about hot chicks all the time! How can anyone other than a nun take offense to that?!