The plot thickens…
Well, isn’t this quite the confession. I wonder why it didn’t merit mention during his SunTV interview?
Update: Jack Layton just informed media in Burnaby, BC that he received his massage in a “community clinic”.
A very communityclinicy update: Velvet Touch Massage parlour
“Jack Layton just informed media in Burnaby, BC that he received his massage in a “community clinic”.
Ahhhh Jacko you dumbass . . . . channeling your inner Nixon.
It is not the crime that is the problem, its the COVER-UP1
You can lie, twist, distort and obfuscate Jack, but you can’t hide.
“Fair point. But wouldnt the cops have seized the videotape, if it existed, when they raided?”
Maybe, maybe not. According to his wife this was a regular occurrence for Jack. They could have a dozen videos going back several months hidden away somewhere. From other locations as well.
It would be funny if a video did surface right now though.
Jack’s Tweet corrected
original-
I went for a massage at a community clinic, police advised me it wasn’t a great police to be, i left and never went back:layton #cv11
corrected-
I went for a massage at a community clinic, police advised me it wasn’t a great place to be, I put my clothes back on and left and never went back:layton #cv11
Knowing the way Layton operates, I’m sure the tax payer’s of Toronto paid for him to go there.
Give Jackolaytin a break folks,he was just trying to emulate his hero John Lennon’s “Give Piece A Chance” bed-in.
There are only 2 things available at a real, legitimate “community clinic”. It’s either an abortion or a shot of penicillin.
SOrry Jack, wrong answer.
Shiata-quiddick? Fe-Layton-gate?
Just got robo polled by Forum Research. I look forward to seeing this one out tomorrow I assume.
ca.news.yahoo.com/opp-investigating-leak-behind-report-layton-visit-massage-195251300.html
James,
I dont think they can publis tomorrow. Maybe I am mistaken but I thought that was one of the wonderful laws that got put in place, no polls published in the last 2 days, along with no release of results before polls close everywhere.
Maybe it changed and I am operating under old info.
did the cop say if jac wanted to cuddle ? or seemed to be? in a sort of orange afterglow ?
I never liked NDP policies (at all). As for Jack – sure, as marxist as I could imagine and someone I’d disagree with virulently – but still, I had some respect for him. Say what you will, he had the convictions of his beliefs and stood by them.
It’s sort of like how I despise Gilles Duceppe, but still admire him as a savvy politician (say what you will about Gilles – but he knows exactly who to pander to, and when; Which surprises me about the Bloc being so soft on the idea that the NDP even posed a threat to them. “What? All someone has to do is come into Quebec and promise the world to get a vote? Who knew?!”).
And this? This frosts the cake, so to speak. I didn’t like the NDP’s policies, but I really didn’t mind Jack, personally. I guess it comes down to the fact that perhaps I didn’t really KNOW Jack.
Epic fail, Jack. Sorry. You can hashtag that however you like.
Rove now that’s libel. The jack-off story is not. So there you go. You’ll be hearing from the lawyers soon pal.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/CanadaVotes/2011/04/30/18087916.html
Go here for an endorsement for Tall Jack Cane from an expected source.
It’s from a professional group of xes “workers”.
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In sidebar of maz2’s link: Toronto Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti doesn’t buy Jack’s story:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/CanadaVotes/News/2011/04/30/18087876.html
Oh man, this is one of the most hilarious stories in politics for some time.
But I’m pretty sure that Jacko was just there at 1:32 am learning/teaching the gal how to do the hand jive.
“The Hand jive is a dance particularly associated with rock and roll and rhythm and blues music of the 1950s. It involves a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps at various parts of the body, following and/or imitating the percussion instruments. It resembles a highly elaborate version of Pat-a-cake. Hand moves include thigh slapping, cross-wrist slapping, fist pounding, hand clapping, and hitch hike moves” – From wiki hand jive
Gee, I wonder if the size of the played with instrument makes a difference?
Who’s saying it was 1:30 AM? Anyone got a link to that? I believe the sun reported 9:30 PM and that’s what Jack said too I believe.
This is so easy to figure out why Quebec “separatists” are loving Jacko.
He is promising them everything including reopening the constitution debate. They would love his help in separating from the rest of Canada.
Why does he go by the name “Jack?”
Because “John” would be too obvious.
There is one way this could be put to rest one way or the other.
Many workplaces, in their health benefit packages, allows someone to claim massages (up to a certain amount). All Layton has to do, or a reporter has to ask, is where is the receipt for the RMT claim (provide that is available in the benefit package at that time for city councilors)?
Oh man, this is one of the most hilarious stories in politics for some time.
Indeed, it’s like a soap opera.(popcorn and beer time)
I keep reading people who state that the raid occurred after regular business hours but there is never any reference to a reliable source.
If we can’t get a link to a reliable source I think we should drop the claim that this liaison occurred after regular business hours because it could spell trouble after the election.
Olivia Chow claims it was a regular appointment with Jack.
Where is the appointment book and how many appointments did Jack attend?
This story puts the Bruce Carson “scandal” in a completely different light, doesn’t it?
At least the woman in question is Carson’s girlfriend. Presumably, Jack didn’t even know — well, wasn’t acquainted with — the girl in the massage parlour with whom he was involved.
If it’s the CPC, the media will turn a molehill into a mountain.
If it’s any other party, the media will turn a mountain into a molehill.
Taliban JackLaytoNDP scandal has legs. Indeed!
It’s gone viral.
Councillor says, “and Jack was very smart.” That’s past tense. Now Jack has lost his credibilty forever.
Layton has sunk himself into notoriety and will not recover.
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“T.O. councillor skeptical of Layton story”
“TORONTO – The Velvet Touch Massage parlour — where NDP Leader Jack Layton was found during a 1996 police visit — was suspected to be a bawdy house since it opened, Toronto Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti said.
The massage parlour in the city’s Chinatown neighbourhood, which ceased operations down shortly after the police came calling, opened in 1994 and was among 26 suspected bawdy houses Toronto Police cracked down on with more than 300 charges.
Layton has denied any wrongdoing and said he did not know it was a suspected bawdy house.
Despite the Velvet Touch being a “pretty active illicit” operation, no one at Toronto City Hall received any complaints about it, Mammoliti said.
“I’ve asked recently if anyone at City Hall had complained in 1996 and there were no complaints that came out of councillors, but police had their eye on it, and at the end of the day, shut it down,” Mammoliti said.
“I can pretty much guarantee wherever there’s a rub-and-tug, it’s run by organized crime, and drugs are always a part of the equation. That’s just a reality of the business.”
As for his thoughts on Layton being caught in the room with an attractive 5-foot-10 Asian woman, he said he doesn’t buy that the NDP leader didn’t know it was a place where he could get sexual services.
“He’s claiming he got a legitimate massage, but the issue here is it’s clear it was a rub-and-tug and most people in society would know that when they go in. I’d be very surprised that a very smart politician would not have known … and Jack was very smart.”
At the time, police were targeting massage parlours using underage girls from Thailand.
On Twitter, there was mixed reaction, especially from women.
“I’m surprised by politicians’ tweets saying Layton visit to alleged bawdyhouse is no big deal; respect 4 women is overlooked by the tweets,” wrote lawyer Cyndee Law.
But Kimberly Hussey called the allegations an attack on Layton.
“All the women I know will be voting for him. He was getting a massage by RMT (registered massage therapist),” she said.”
http://www.lfpress.com/news/decision2011/2011/04/30/18087896.html
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2011/04/30/the-orange-wave-could-sink-canada/#comment-74816
Jack Layton just said at his press conference in Burnaby “I went for a massage to the community clinic” .
How does the media take this twist? A community clinic???
Earlier Olivia said Jack went to a “registered massage clinic” – Jack said it was a “massage parlour” and the Police said it was a “bawdy house” and now it is a “community clinic” – more questions needing more answers.
Why were you naked?
Community clinic on Dundas Street???
But Kimberly Hussey called the allegations an attack on Layton.
“All the women I know will be voting for him. He was getting a massage by RMT (registered massage therapist),” she said.”
RMT, really?
Everybody who works in a common bawdy house is an “inmate of a common bawdy house”(illegal designation) and Kimberly Hussey claims Jack’s attendent was a Registered Massage Therapist which requires 2 years of schooling and would lose that registration forever if she was busted as an inmate of a common bawdy house?
Prove that Kimberly because it makes no sense.(the police documents say the place was raided as a common bawdy house 2 weeks prior to the bust that netted Jack)
What’s as troubling as all the unanswered questions — and the fact of what appears to be Jack’s and Olivia’s coverup of the facts — is the media’s duplicity in keeping this story under wraps for so long.
If organized crime is involved, which appears is the case, and the exploitation of vulnerable immigrant Asian women, not to mention an elected official availing himself of illicit sex in a bawdy house, then keeping all of this hush-hush, because Jack is a left-lib politician, is despicable. The media seem to become accessories to the crime.
Now, if this were a CPC politician, these facts would have been exposed at the time and there’d have been Hell to pay for the Conservatives. All of the faux scandals the media have manufactured involving the CPC utterly pale in comparison to Jackgate.
Jack is starting to tangle his web. This was not a community clinic,not by a longshot. Jack wrote a book titled ‘Homelessness”. I haven’t read it but I think that he and Olivia were regulars in that neighbourhood,talking to and helping the homeless. He should have known what was what.
Put this together with the polling results and it’s a case of:
Premature Jack Elation…
sorry, saw that somewhere else a few days ago…
my take on it?
well, for one thing nobody can hold this over Jack’s head (the one on his shoulders, not the other one) since it’s all over the net now.
he only needs to be concerned if there were other times he was present during visits from the cops. or the videotape thing.
‘The Velvet Touch’ massage parlor does have a therapeutic ring to it does it not?
The details being presented in this case suggest some inappropriate behavior has taken place.
Now perhaps it’s Jack just being a horned up owl, on the prowl, and that’s bad enough!
More distressing is the almost universal rabid support he’s receiving from the masses. Immorality apparently means nothing anymore! In fact, many see it as a badge of honour (misplaced, to be sure).
There’s the biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah. Look it up. Maybe not so far-fetched…..Keep testing His forebearance.
‘The Velvet Touch’ massage parlor does have a therapeutic ring to it does it not?
It does.
It also does not describe the massage technique known as Shiatsu at all which has nothing to do with a velvet touch but is more like the Rolfing massage technique using finger tips and even elbows of the practitioner.
Up and down Dundas Street
In and out the Velvet Touch
That’s the way the money goes
Pop! goes the weasel.
Now if you just start to Google “lay” you get Layton message. Just ahead of layer cake. Considering the popularity of layer cake, that’s quite something.
Whether at 1:30 a.m. or 9:30 pm. it’s unlikely he’d be going for a therapeutic massage at those time. What a lot of BS, and still being covered up. Double standard indeed.
And nooooow: Jack Layton Robot Theatre!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5FlFk3wxII
Velvet Touch. At least it wasn’t the Blue Oyster…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTJMerul33E
What confuses me is this: everyone is still calling him by the name Jack. He’ll always be John Layton to me.
Face it………..the NDP won’t from gov’t…..and after his massage episode…..anyone speculating of him becoming PM is nothin more that premature Jack U layton……. 🙂
The Joel at April 30, 2011 11:36 PM
Jack/John, who is this guy really to have lived in subsidized housing with his wife and both of them Toronto politicians?
here is an interesting tidbit:
On July 9, 1988, he(Jack) married Hong Kong-born Toronto District School Board trustee Olivia Chow in a ceremony on Algonquin Island. Their whitewater rafting honeymoon plans had to be abandoned, however, when days before the wedding Layton collided with a newspaper box while bicycling.
Again with the bicycle!
If Jack Layton stands for anything, it should be the need to licence bicycles
The real action this weekend seems to be happening on Twitter.
Get to know what the media looks like as they do their back and forth with one another.
This whole Layton story has them all very aroused.
How does one prevent Drippers from last-minute, door-to-door, glad-handing in one’s neighbourhood?
Hang a couple of Kleenex from the mail box or slot/picture window/porch light ….. and, remember – wetter is better!
How does one prevent Drippers from last-minute, door-to-door, glad-handing in one’s neighbourhood?
Does it make me a bad person if my method involves tossing balloons filled with green jello and overcooked carrots julienne?
Taliban Jack “Splodydope” Layton.
Did someone say Layton’s Christian name is John? Layton is a Christian! Whoda thunk it!
If you’re havin’ trouble with your town hall gal/
She’s givin’ you the blues/
You wanna shiatsu but only in a bed/
Here’s what you gotta do/
Get on your bike, go for a ride/
We’re open way past nine/
Go up the stairs, turn to the right, hey
Support a life of crime!
Dirty Deeds on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds done on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds done on Dundas Street
You got problems in your life of love/
You got a broken heart/
It’s hurts as much as your ol’ pulled goin/
That’s when shiatsu starts, well-uh/
Take off your clothes, and see how it grows/
Soon the time’ll be right/
Break out the oil and a tissue box,
And wait for that Green Light!
Dirty Deeds on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds done on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds done on Dundas Street
You thank the lady and she wants you gone/
But you still got no clothes/
Her job is over and it’s running late/
Just need to blow your nose/
In come the cops, your blood pressure drops/
When’d that red light come on?/
You didn’t know this was a nasty place
Get on your bike and be gone, hey
Dirty Deeds on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds done on Dundas Street
Dirty Deeds done on Dundas Street
Orange Crush
Coalitions
NDP
Dundas Street
Ooo, Kleenex
Shiatsu
High anxiety!
Done dirt cheap, eah
Dirty deeds, do anything you want me to, Dundas Street
Dirty deeds, dirty deeds, dirty deeds, Dundas Street
The silver lining:
A commie was in that Kleenex.
Glenn that was brilliant, but like the recent Dire Straits scandal, your song will be subject to heavy editing in order to receive the blessing of the CRTC. I’m sure the various representatives from the grievance industry will want to focus group your lyrics too. Get your PayPal account set up right away for the ineveitable legal defence fund when you’re up against the HRC’s.
thanks,
i’ll get to work on:
The Sultan of Schwing!
Glenn, that was great. I’d buy your cd.