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Do you oppose data centers being built in your town? Well then you’re a lowly “unkempt” rube, in the eyes of Shelbyville, Indiana mayor and aspiring aristocrat Scott Furgeson.
In a video seemingly recorded without his knowledge, Furgeson, a Republican, fumes against the “No Data Centers” signs popping up across town, before making a cartoonishly villainous observation about his own constituents.
“I’ve seen a lot of these all over the town, but I only see them in sh*tty houses,” the mayor sneered.
A woman interjects to correct him.
“Working class,” she emphasized, after yelping in disbelief. “You see them at working class houses.”
“Most of them are rentals, so,” Furgeson continued, as if it strengthened his case.
“Exactly. Working class, man,” the woman replied.
“It doesn’t matter whether they’re rentals or not, they’re still human beings,” another woman offers.
“Yeah, I know,” Furgeson said, before defaulting back to the supercilious demeanor of an out of touch nobility. “They’re unkempt. Unkempt properties.”
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