<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Toronto Sun (Toronto, Canada) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/03/16/mizz-barbie-vows-to-whip-city-hall-into-shape#">http://www.torontosun.com/2014/03/16/mizz-barbie-vows-to-whip-city-hall-into-shape#</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><hgroup class="clearfix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><h1 class="title zero entry-title" style="padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; position: relative; display: inline; margin: 0px !important; font-weight: normal !important;">Mizz Barbie vows to whip City Hall into shape </h1></span></font></hgroup><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="cid:FE9AE9F2-8ABB-4819-8490-F88EA5D68C8B" alt="image.jpeg" id="FE9AE9F2-8ABB-4819-8490-F88EA5D68C8B" width="640" height="357"></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ever smoked crack cocaine? I inquire of our new wannabe mayor. It’s the first thing you ask these days.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“No,” replies candidate Carlie Ritch. “I don’t even drink much.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Okay, ever horse-whipped a feller to within an inch of his life, blindfolded him, gagged him, spanked him, trussed him up, stuck pins in his nipples, stomped on him, spit on him and called him a dirty, mangy dog?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Yes, why just yesterday...”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the line between Toronto city council and sado-masochism gets even blurrier.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Carlie Ritch, 43, is better known as Mizz Barbie Bitch, a top pro dominatrix. She runs a busy dungeon downtown.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I bumped into her at the Everything To Do With Sex Show last fall. She wore ball-kicker boots and a Rob Ford button.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m a Ford fan,” she told me, and later offered free advice to Rob on how he could be a better mayor.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well, that’s like flogging a dead horse. A stubborn horse. Rob didn’t listen. So Mizz Bitch has gone the next step. She’s running for mayor.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’ll whip this city into shape,” is one of her campaign slogans. “I mean business” is the other.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Obediently, I shuffle down to Nathan Phillips Square for a campaign kickoff interview.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tired of Ford’s NFL ties, John Tory’s blue shirts or Olivia Chow’s sensible shoes?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mizz Bitch is dolled up in boss-lady pinstrips with metal spiked shoulders, a peekaboo blouse and those ball-kickin’ boots.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m a warrior,” she says. “I’ll change things at City Hall.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These are heady times for Mizz Bitch. She’s landed a regular gig on the new Todd Shapiro show on SiriusXM radio. Dragons’ Den is looking at her proposal to open a string of dominatrix schools.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Plus, business is booming at her dungeon. I am shocked — shocked! — to hear she even has clients from City Hall.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please, PLEASE, tell me it’s Adam Vaughan. He’s looking a little whipped these days.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Never met the man,” she says, “though I do live in his ward.” So who?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’ll never tell. What you do on your own time is nobody’s business.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She’s a woman after Rob Ford’s heart, alright. “It’s not against the law to get drunk,” she says.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the combative incumbent’s “arrogance and abuse of power” has ticked her off. And when a dominatrix says you’re too abusive...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hence, the campaign. A website is to launch Monday and she plans to register at City Hall later this week — as Carlie Ritch — with adviser and former perennial candidate Enza “Supermodel” Anderson in tow.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I can’t imagine the vote-splitting needed for a Mizz Barbie Bitch victory. The rise of Bitch Nation, maybe?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But if she wins, first she’d “clean house.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Councillors who’ve been there, like, 30 years, have got to go. Any (bureaucrats) not doing their job will be re-assigned or moved out.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Being a dominatrix gives you the confidence for that.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She’d put tolls on the Gardiner to pay to revamp it. She’d turn old Ontario Place into a music showcase, including the Metronome project. She’d cut the 44-member city council in half. She’d expand the island airport. She’d respect the taxpayer, just like that other guy.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m a fixer, not a spender.” She says Olivia Chow “spends money on frivolous things” and John Tory is “elitist.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As for scandals spoiling her regime as mayor, she insists, “I don’t have any skeletons in my closet.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I AM the skeleton.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She hastens to add her dominatrix schtick involves “absolutely no sex. Don’t even ask.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She has a Doberman, two grown kids and, believe it or not, a grandson.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m a single mom and I’ve worked for everything I have. I’m really that blue-collar, normal, ordinary person.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ordinary? Yes, Mizz Bitch, if you say so.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So the main horses — Ford, Chow, Tory, Karen Stintz, David Soknacki — are off and running in the mayoral race.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now, we have the spurs and crop.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>