job. you know, i m not running for politics. i think i m doing a great job sitting on my porch, relaxing. do you want us to move? eventually, the heckler forces conup and his campaign staffers to change location. we just ended up moving down the block and doing our thing and going on with the day and not thinking a whole lot about it until obviously the video became viral, as they say. you know, it s six degrees of separation in america, or maybe even the world. you know, you ve got a friend in california. you e-mail it over to them. they re going to spread it to all their friends in california who might have a friend somewhere else and i think it s pretty much what happened. if you ve seen this video, then you re one of tens of thousands around the globe. it wasn t what i was really wanting to talk about and frankly, really wasn t what the community probably should have been talking about, but, you know, i could see it. it was a big story. liar. it s a big story that d
the aids epidemic. they ve been heckled. that s why i m running for president to do something about it. and politician ben conup is proud to be in their company. it s a rite of passage. liar. we re here again it s not something that i anticipated. it all starts in march 2009 when lucas county commissioner ben coniff decides to run for mayor of toledo, ohio. i wanted to give something back. i enjoy politics. i actually find it interesting, stimulating, challenging. we re here today and when a local television station films him struggling to talk over a relentless heckler, his hard day at work becomes a caught on camera sensation. are you done?
no. i m going to keep going. okay. all right. well, it wasn t what i signed up for. i didn t enter this race for mayor in hopes of becoming a youtube star. that s politics. maxwell austin is a toledo resident who follows politicians closely and takes them to task, especially conup who he said broke a pledge of ethics not to run for mayor. he says i plan to stay my term, i m going to do what i m going to do, not running for mayor, only a few weeks later to come out and say, okay, you know what, i m going to run for mayor. this is an important issue. austin is not happy when he sees coniff campaigning literally at his front door. i was sitting on my porch one morning. people showed up. someone approached me to let me know who was going to be coming, and would i want to put on a t-shirt and come down there and join. i let him know what i thought and told them no. conup s staff updates him on the situation. i think there was some indication that there was a guy there wh
w. bush, and bill clinton all have in common? bill, this is the center of the aids epidemic. they ve been heckled. that s why i m running for president to do something about it. and politician ben conup is proud to be in their company. it s a rite of passage. liar. we re here again it s not something that i anticipated. it all starts in march 2009 when lucas county commissioner ben coniff decides to run for mayor of toledo, ohio. i wanted to give something back. i enjoy politics. i actually find it interesting, stimulating, challenging.
obama holds at the white house to mend fences between a cambridge, massachusetts, police officer and a harvard professor over a controversial arrest. and we decided to take a cue from the president. in that spirit, a local toledo television station decides to organize a beer summit of its own featuring ben conup and maxwell austin. ben, good to see you. nice to finally meet you. i feel like a bond, you know what i mean? a little bit. yeah, yeah, yeah. here you go. we ve had something, thank you very much. a peace offering. we had our beer. we talked about the city, talked about some of the issues facing young people in the city facing downtown toledo, which he also had some interest in. so we found some common ground. it s a very productive evening for me, at least. i hope it wasn t too bad for you. nope, not at all. i got a free beer out of it. got a free beer. i would be willing to move past our heckling incident and try to get him involved in some way constru