Ernest E. Debs
Ernest Eugene Debs (1904–2002), who went by Ernest E. Debs, was a California State Assembly member from 1942 to 1947, a Los Angeles city councilman from 1947 to 1958 and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1958 to 1974.
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“It’s up the spout and Charley Wag
With wipes and tickers and what not
Until the squeezer nips your scrag,
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