Tom Morello
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724 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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And the job is to ask rich people for money.
The end, that's the job.
And he had progressive opinions about the environment and immigration, this, that, and the other.
The job, we used to go, at the time when we were traveling, I would commandeer a hotel's bank of pay phones.
So it was like 10 pay phones there, the senator's pay phones.
So I'd call a guy, rich guy in Texas, number one, can you hold for Senator Cranston?
Boom, number two, can you hold?
So the phones are just dangling.
There's nine phones dangling with people waiting to be asked for money.
And then when he hangs up this one, I come back around and we start the process again.
And that was, it was just so... For someone of your moral conviction, that must have been really... No, it was a day gig.
Yeah, yeah.
But I was so dismissive
I was so sure that real change does not come through electoral politics when I had that job.
I was always a radical and a revolutionary at heart, trying to be in a rock band, trying to buy apple juice and wheat bread was why I was working.
The thing that was the most disheartening was one day this woman calls up, and I would sometimes field calls from constituents, and she was complaining that Mexicans were moving into her neighborhood.
And so I don't know what she wants the senators to do about that.
Perhaps some pogrom against the Mexicans.
And so I told, I said, you know, ma'am, you know, you're a racist and you can go to hell.
And then she called back, and I thought that I had represented the senator well, because certainly he wouldn't have.
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