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Gothmog

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Sun Sep 18, 2016, 10:52 AM Sep 2016

With soaring oratory, Mayor Adler defends taco trucks on every corner

I was at the Johnson Jordan dinner for the Texas Democratic Party last night. The mayor of Austin was in black tie (there was another event in the same hotel on a different floor) and gave one of the better speeches of the night http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/with-soaring-oratory-mayor-adler-defends-taco-truc/nsZq2/

With rhetorical bows to Pericles, Ecclesiastes, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare and Tom Joad, Austin Mayor Steve Adler defended the taco truck and the desirability of having one on every corner in a mock epic speech at the Texas Democratic Party’s annual Johnson-Jordan Dinner Saturday night at the JW Marriott Austin.

“We in this room know taco trucks for what they are: the very ambassadors of community, of justice, and of guacamole — truly all that makes life worth living, the very bedrocks of our democracy, and of our breakfast,” declared Adler, who then, channeling his inner Churchill, continued, “And so I enjoin you friends to stand with me, to tell the enemies of taco trucks that we will fight them on the street corners. We will fight them in the parks. We will fight them with tortillas, cheese, and chorizo. We will fight them with growing confidence at breakfast and at lunch, and most of all, after closing time.

“We. Will. Never. Surrender. And when it is over, we shall say, never before have so many eaten so well so often.”

Adler was responding to a now famous, much ridiculed comment from Marco Gutierrez, the founder of Latinos for Trump, in a Sept. 1 appearance on MSNBC in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s Aug. 31 visit to Mexico and very tough speech that night in Phoenix on immigration, the border wall, and mass deportation.

I was amazed that one could do 15 to 20 minutes on taco trucks.

Martin O'Malley also gave a great speech.
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With soaring oratory, Mayor Adler defends taco trucks on every corner (Original Post) Gothmog Sep 2016 OP
Mmmmmm tacos! jcgoldie Sep 2016 #1
Martin O'Malley upstaged by tacos. LOL Coyotl Sep 2016 #2
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