“Who is this donkey? I’ll have to...
“Who is this donkey? I’ll have to send him a letter.”
--South El Monte City Councilman Jim Kelly, responding to urbanologist Pierre deVise’s controversial rankings of the nation’s wealthiest and poorest suburbs, which included South El Monte as America’s 15th poorest.
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