Ford asks people not to text him at night, complaining all I hear is the buzzing [Video]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has asked people to stop texting him during the night because he says a barrage of messages is interrupting the few hours of sleep he is able to get.

At the end of a news conference on Tuesday, Ford addressed people he said had texted him personally and were waiting for him to respond, estimating he had more than 4,000 unread text messages he needed to reply to.

“Please, have patience with me. Don’t get insulted if I don’t get back to you,” Ford said. “They’re coming in hundreds, if not a thousand a day and I cannot keep up.”

The premier controversially uses the same device for government work, personal and party business and recently lost a transparency battle involving the device in front of the province’s privacy watchdog.

Late last year, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario ruledFord was using his personal phone for government business and ordered civil …