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Welcome back to S.T.L.

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To be alive I'm Sarah Bernard and joining
me in the studio to talk about his newly

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appointed position as alderman of the Twelfth
ward Mr Larry I know it's welcome to

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S.T.L. T.V. Thank you thank you for
inviting me here and Alderman Arnaud it's

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a bit of an asshole I'm just going to call
you Larry if you're OK with that that's

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fine easier for me. So
everybody knows you're

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a yes man OK See Ben All
right now for about

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a year yes enough on their one year
anniversary so how's it been it's been

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extremely different after being employed
by the city for thirty three years. I do

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enjoy what I'm doing I can knew what I was
getting then to running for all women

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because I've been you know around
City Hall my whole life right from

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a very different percent
yeah you're employed about

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a city now you're employed by the residents
ram of your correct yeah how that

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experience of the past thirty five years
or so has really prepared you what made

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you want to run for office I've always
wanted to be in some political incline

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going back as far as alderman red
Villa he was my idol. He got me my

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first job with the city and I worked with
the city and we always got on his place

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and hear all the stories about the city
the days at the Board of Aldermen and I

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watch how you work with his constituents
you know they came in the him or he went

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to them and what impressed you about the
way he interacted that made you have that

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same call there he would always try to help
someone and if he couldn't help them he

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would least give them the answer you know
whether be right or wrong if you could do

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it or not I and I and I just like that
abiding because I thought you know you

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really care about the people and this
was. It's all about and you've been

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a city residents are

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a long time it sounds like yes my how do
you know the city well and repaired you

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for this position and now going back you
you said that he inspired you because he

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was helping people but in your
jobs with the city and you had

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a lot of different hats you were also helping
people along the way so what are some

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of the things that you were doing throughout
those thirty five years one of the

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things my very first job I worked in the
parking meter Division I worked there till

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January of nineteen eighty and then I went
to the liason collector's office and was

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in

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a parking meter division I'm marking major
division back then when I was there I was

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on a collection route we took the money
as a meters we repaired meters and we had

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a daily route OK fine yeah yeah you never
heard of bad weather right exactly in

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those little vehicles and getting rained
on and out and all that but and then your

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people yelling at you probably want to know
why he said the meter didn't work right

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right so that's why you
were interacting with

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a lot of people Don And yes and mainly
helping out the city and that job so what

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was the next. Things that I want to life
in collectors office I was I was an

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investigator for life and collectors office
we basically went out and checked on

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businesses made sure her license was up
to date and if it wasn't you know we gave

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farm just to last for the coming get

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a license we also want to have businesses
that were delinquent in their taxes and

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our goal was our my goal was expected we
would sit down with them make arrangements

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a coming get him on payment schedule you
know it was hard to have one big lump sum

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of money one time so I got I got pleasure
helping people come in where they could

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work payment arrangements solving people
just like you doing today OK so then you

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decided to run for office as you retire
are you retired from the city I retired

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last December All right so then you had
some time just taking on and I like to roll

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it takes

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a lot of time that process itself and then
once you you're elected so what made you

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what inspired you was it the retirement
that gave you the time to do it or

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something else no I I basically I knew I
was going to retire and run for all the

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men but I didn't tell anyone I knew

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a year ahead of time and my plans were.
And I knew if I retired I have plenty

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of times on my hands and say but. To work
with people who do what I can to help

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them you know I make myself visible
in the Twelfth ward I go out

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a lot of days I see people on

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a yard work and I stop and reduce myself
if I've never met ask him how things are

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going you know we just talk about stuff in
general well it sounds like you are well

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prepared and we're going to talk

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a little bit more about your plan for the
tough work coming up we need to take

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a break right now we're going to have much
more with Alderman our No it's when we

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