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To: Dr. Franklin

Johnny Rocco : I’ll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor before you ever get a ten-buck raise! Yeah, how many of those guys in office owe everything to me? I made them. Yeah, I made them just like a... Like a tailor makes a suit of clothes. I’d take a nobody, see, teach him what to say, get his name in the papers. Then I’d pay for his campaign expenses. Dish out a lot of groceries and coal. Get my boys to bring the voters out. And then count the votes over and over again ‘til they added up right, and he was elected.


12 posted on 06/24/2021 6:46:54 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker

Nora! .... Nora!

Poor Osceola brothers...

Great movie. Thanks.


31 posted on 06/24/2021 7:18:20 PM PDT by Lite
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To: eastforker

Key Largo is great. I just watched the other day and took note of that same speech. Things haven’t changed.


32 posted on 06/24/2021 7:21:16 PM PDT by freefdny
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