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In case you’ve yet to see this, it’s a doozy: East Haven, Conn. Mayor Joe Maturo’s plans to help the Latino community, struggling with a controversy regarding rogue police officers detaining Latinos seemingly without reason? ”I might have tacos when I go home,” he told a TV news reporter. “I’m not quite sure yet.” Maturo later apologized for the comments in a statement, claiming ”I let the stress of the situation get the best of me and inflamed what is already a serious and unfortunate situation. I regret my insensitive comment and realize that it is my job to lead by example.” But let’s face it, there’s no getting out of this one.

This is simply too painful to watch all of the way through. What planet is this guy from? When voting and tax paying members of your community feel as if they’re being unfairly harassed by the police (an agency funded by tax payers), normally you (the mayor of the town) make assurances for them and perhaps most importantly you do not alienate potential voters or donors. As an example, in this scenario you can reply with just about any political cliche except for, “I might have tacos when I go home.” This is the stuff of memes,

By the way, bravo, high-five and much love to the reporter for rightfully grilling him.

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  1. reagan-was-a-horrible-president reblogged this from vinylsticker
  2. vinylsticker reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    beyond disgusting
  3. gregador reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    fucking idiot—and he’s an elected official. This
  4. ardenstreet reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    really stumbles through...interview. Painful.
  5. chrisreblogs reblogged this from curtisretherford
  6. curtisretherford reblogged this from mikescollins and added:
    worse. Improvisors: Remember that, generally, you have enough in...first 3 lines to play...
  7. mikescollins reblogged this from ohheybill and added:
    This goes from bad to worse.
  8. ohheybill reblogged this from thenoobyorker and added:
    I cannot handle this one bit.
  9. thenoobyorker reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    This is simply too painful...watch all of the way through. What planet is this guy from?...
  10. just-zeroes-and-ones reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    You’d better step...fuck down, you racist motherfucker.
  11. paulineerika reblogged this from shortformblog
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  13. holdherback reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    love when politicians say something unsavory...then accuse the press
  14. romanreloaded reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    love racist humor/tacos as much as...next politician, but damn.
  15. decolonizeyourmind reblogged this from shortformblog
  16. lifesgrandparade reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    Awww, as long as you’re sorry.
  17. banji-realness said: as a connecticut native, let me just say, it’s a seriously wack state and this fool is just making it look even worse
  18. carpediem-carpenoche reblogged this from postblogger and added:
    he sounds drunk as fuck hahaha
  19. if-our-worlds-collide reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    He sounds absolutely shitfaced.
  20. r2articles reblogged this from shortformblog
  21. sturmpony said: Oh my god. Watching him stumble over this is wonderful.
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