Tea and Vitriol

 City Councilman Jose Peo ( NW district) hosts a regular podcast on We the People Podcast Network, "Politically Correcting With Jose Peo." It features Peo himself with a co-host and guests guzzling beer and making off color remarks, sort of like pubescent adolescent boys pretending to sound like men after they discovered their daddy's liquor stash. However, the episode aired on June 15 featured a segment of unbelievable vulgarity, crudeness and political incorectness that was not to be expected from a sitting elected official and his buddies. At least not in public. Less surprising is that most people didn't know anything about it until City Newspaper's Gino Fanelli posted his story about it on June 27, almost two weeks after the podcast, probably because most people don't pay attention to what little Peo says anyway and couldn't be bothered to listen to his podcast. If they even knew he had one. Frankly, it became a tempest in a teapot. I listened to the

Former Rochester City Councilman Adam McFadden was sentenced for his crimes of embezzlement and tax fraud on Friday, February 11, 2022. He pled guilty to those charges October 9, 2019, and agreed to turn state's evidence against his former friend and co-conspirator George Moses, former chairman of the Rochester Housing Authority, in return for consideration at his sentencing. There is no honor among thieves, after all. George's share in the embezzlement is a lot more glamorous than Adam's, since it features adultery and money spent on love nests, green cards, luxury vacations, a time share and dental work. Adam's reason for embezzling money from agencies meant to help poor, especially Black, people was simple: He needed the money. Adam was sentenced to 18 months in prison, though it's doubtful that he will serve all of it and the prison he will be residing at will probably be a branch of Club Fed, a distinguished rest home for celebrities and political criminals of