President Joe Biden earned hearty laughs from a room full of local politicians Tuesday by joking about an encounter he had as a New Castle County councilman.
Biden, speaking at the National Association of Counties conference in Washington, D.C., told the room he knows “from personal experience how hard the job you have is” and joked that he ran for Senate to avoid the pitfalls of county council.
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“I got a call one night. A woman said to me — obviously not of the same persuasion as I was politically — called me and said, ‘There’s a dead dog on my lawn,'” the president recounted.
Biden said he recommended that the woman contact “the county,” but she claimed to have already done so and demanded that the body be removed immediately, telling Biden she “paid his salary.”
“So I went over there,” he continued. “I picked it up. She said, ‘I want it out of my yard,’ so I put it on her doorstep.”
The president later clarified that he’s “gotten much better since then.”
Throughout his speech, Biden hit on a number of themes he’d outlined in past interactions with local politicians and called for their help in furthering his economic agenda. He particularly vowed to continue fighting rising prices for gas and other goods.
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