A Rob Ford campaign volunteer has lost his Twitter privileges for re-tweeting a message that suggested the mayoral candidate was "telling the truth about AIDS" in a controversial outburst four years ago.
"It was a bad mistake by one of my campaign workers," Mr. Ford said Thursday. "There's hundreds of people and it's hard to keep track of what everyone does. But it does not reflect how I think."
On Wednesday, rival candidate George Smitherman slammed Mr. Ford for saying during a 2006 council debate on AIDS funding that "if you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn't get AIDS probably, that's bottom line. These are the facts."
Later, one of the Ford camp's official Twitter feeds - @RobFordTeam - re-tweeted to Ford's followers a message that read, "Smitherman should spend less time attacking Ford for telling the truth about AIDS, more time coming up with actual policies."
Mr. Ford said he hasn't kicked the volunteer out, just revoked his password to the official Twitter account.