4.4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 2 minutes
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0:00.0 | This guy Joe Moreno, who's just really kind of universally low. |
0:04.5 | Broca Joe, as he's affectionately. |
0:06.3 | Yes, I was always afraid to criticize this guy in public because our office is in his ward, |
0:11.5 | and so I didn't want him to kind of crack down on us somehow. |
0:15.0 | But thankfully, now we have a socialist in office in that word, so I can breathe easy. |
0:19.7 | But he would do bizarre stuff, in addition to being |
0:21.9 | a, you know, full steam ahead on gentrification in the neighborhood. He would do bizarre stuff. |
0:26.5 | Like, he would have these scandals a couple weeks before the election where he gave his car to |
0:32.2 | his girlfriend and then apparently got mad at her and called the police on her and reported |
0:36.8 | the car stolen. So she went to |
0:38.2 | jail. And then he got interviewed about it. And he's like, he said, you know, she's a single mom. |
0:43.8 | I was just trying to help her out. It's just like very bizarre stuff. Also, he would bring this |
0:48.3 | squad of goons with him to public events. And I went to this debate that he was at a church |
0:53.3 | against Daniel Espada, the DSA member. |
0:55.4 | You know, his goons are just like yelling out in the middle of the debate in a church. |
1:00.0 | This is very awkward stuff. And this is like masculine, like chest beating and very strange. |
1:04.7 | He also flashed his, apparently all city council members get a badge. And he didn't like that |
1:09.8 | somebody was like parked in a parking spot |
1:11.6 | that he wanted to occupy and so he like flashed his badge at this woman in her car and sort of made |
1:17.9 | it seem like he was a Chicago police officer who was trying to harass her something about. |
1:23.3 | I don't know. |
1:23.5 | This is very bizarre stuff. |
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