After lunch outside, Hawke and Brian returned to the office building.
The staff members of the campaign team who were doing their normal work were gathering together and whispering.
"God bless, our hope of victory has greatly increased." A girl gossiped: "Owen Nester was reportedly arrested by the LAPD for rape."
One of the The young man answered: "When I went out to buy coffee, I heard someone in the coffee shop say that Owen has strengthened ten shemales."
The woman sitting down said, "Is Owen so strong?"
Hawke and Brian heard these words and ignored them, going straight upstairs.
The staff on the first floor are only responsible for routine work and will not participate in the real campaign battles.
When he came to the office, Hawke answered the phone and said to Brian: "Eric has already found a candidate. I will meet with him in the afternoon. They are a real father and son. We don't need to be fake. Go directly to the real thing."
Brian nodded: "I have found someone to cooperate with the shooting."
Hoke looked at the work diary, called Edward and said. : "You should follow up with the lawyer and the court and try to send the subpoena to Irving today."
Brian went to make the phone call.
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West Los Angeles, Western Bureau.
Accompanied by his lawyer, Owen came out of the main entrance of the Western Branch with an extremely ugly face.
More than a dozen cameras and camcorders were pointed here to shoot.
This makes Owen very uncomfortable, after all, he is just the mayor of a satellite town.
A reporter from Fox TV Channel 11 asked: "Mr. Mayor, you were forcibly summoned to the police station by the LAPD for buying sex?"
Other media also reported from their respective news lines I got some news from people there They all asked: "It is said that you paid bail before you could leave the police station?"
"Are you restricted from traveling?"
"The crimes of yours announced on Twitter Are all the evidence true? ”
Owen had a dark face and couldn't say anything.
He lacked experience in dealing directly with the media, so he simply shut up and got in the car driven by Arnold and Fowler.
Those asshole reporters are still filming the car.
The craziest ones even ran in front of the car and filmed the interior through the windshield.
Lexus finally squeezed out of the encirclement.
There were some bastards who didn't want to give up and followed them on motorcycles.
Irving closed the car curtains, out of sight and out of mind.
Arnold asked: "What's going on? There are a lot of news about you on the Internet now, saying that you were caught for cheating. There are also some websites that forwarded tweets on Twitter, which published many so-called Evidence."
"Someone is setting me up!" It was not difficult for Owen to come to this conclusion: "LAP last night. During an operation against illegal transactions, D seized an account book with my name on it. The madam and several prostitutes also said that they had provided services to me many times, and the amount involved exceeded 20,000 US dollars..."
< br>Fowler, the younger brother, spoke quickly: "Brother, you went out to play and got caught?"
Owen patted the driver's seat: "Shut up!"
Fowler didn't dare to say more, but he was still muttering in his heart, because his brother took him to a very interesting place. Women are as obedient as dogs.
The disobedient ones can still be tamed.
Arnold said: "I suspect it was done by the other side, although there is no evidence."
Irving had no illusions: "It was them who did it, no need to doubt it." He asked: " No news from Sacramento yet?”
"No, they couldn't spare their elite manpower, so they only sent two people to handle the funeral affairs of Grant's team." Arnold called several times today: "The battle between red and blue at the top has reached a fever pitch, and the recall election will begin soon. , we are just some pawns, they will give up on us at any time.”
Irving felt that everything took a turn for the worse when something happened to Grant’s team, and he faced a dilemma he had never faced before.
He asked Arnold: "What should we do now?"
Arnold thought of everything Brian did after the scandal was exposed: "Find the media to clarify, and find ways to divert the attention of the citizens of Covina. Pay attention and look for dirt on Brian. There must be a lot of dirt on people like him. Isn’t it just to expose each other’s shortcomings?”
Fowler couldn’t help but interject: “This is too troublesome. If you ask me, it will be like the first election. I will take the old brothers directly. The gun is spinning in front of the competitor's house. If he doesn't know what to do, just shoot him with a black gun!"
"Shut your stinky mouth!" Irving was really angry this time: "Have you ever thought about the consequences of killing Brian Ferguson? He is a direct member of the Ferguson family. When the officer comes, it will not be an ordinary LAPD police officer, but a SWAT officer." Come clean! Even if we can escape, we still have to face the FBI's nationwide arrest!"
The Lexus came off the highway and approached the three-way intersection into Covina.
Irving noticed that some people were taking pictures of the citrus sculpture.
He thought of the news last night and asked Arnold: "How is the man who was injured in the crash?"
"I have been dealing with your matter." Arnold couldn't get away, I had no choice but to ask another person to go to the hospital: "The other person has been transferred to another hospital. I haven't found out where exactly he was transferred to yet."
Owen looked at the citrus sculpture. It was originally his proud work, but now it seemed to be a flaw.
He extremely suspected that Brian was responsible for the injury to the man last night, and immediately asked: "After the news was exposed on Fox 11, is there no new news?"
< br>Arnold said: "Not yet."
Irving said: "Find the person as soon as possible."
The car passed by the citrus sculpture. He wanted to demolish it, but he resisted. down.
If it is demolished, it will become the laughing stock of all Covina.
Irving said to Fowler: "Find a few people to repaint the citrus, and then build a guardrail in front."
The car stopped in front of the city hall, and Fowler took out his mobile phone to make a call. , requiring the other party to construct the project as soon as possible. But the construction team will have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest.
Irving opened the door and got out of the car.
There was a loud explosion all around, and many people gathered nearby to watch the excitement.
“Owen became a rapist.”
“I heard he paid a large bail before he was released.”
“You are willing to let a rapist be a rapist? Mayor? ”
Rumors always turn into rumors, and they become more and more exaggerated.
Hawke knows very well that there is no need to spread rumors from the source, as long as they are spread by word of mouth, they will definitely deteriorate.
He experienced it personally during the Sundance Film Festival, where Verona Ryder ended up stealing the nuclear weapons control box.
At the beginning of the rumor, he just said that Verona Ryder had kleptomania.
The truth is not important, just like Hawke can't clean up the rumors about Brian.
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The same goes for Irving.
Those words were like a murderous knife, which made Owen feel extremely uncomfortable.
He could only pretend that he didn't hear it and quickly entered the city hall.
Someone in the crowd sent a text message: "He's back, at the city hall."
In Brian's campaign office, Sandra hurried upstairs.
She found Hawke and said: "Irving is back, in the city hall."
Hoke said: "Pretend to be a city hall employee and call his wife. Don't they have a good relationship as a couple?"
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"Yes." Sandra took out a spare mobile phone and called Owen's wife Helen.
In a villa on the east side of Covina.
Helen was furious and shouted to her son: "Pratt, get in your car and let's go to City Hall."
Pratt said: "I still have to go to school."
Helen stared at him and asked: "Are you going?"
"I will go." Pratt quickly took it Get the car keys and go drive.
The mother and son hurried out.
At the city hall, Owen looked at the two people in front of him in surprise. After the lawyer verified it, he signed the receipt.
What the other party sent was a civil complaint and a summons.
The bastard who hit the tangerine last night filed a civil compensation lawsuit with the court. Taking into account medical expenses, lost wages, nutrition expenses, etc., the total amount is as high as 850,000 US dollars.
When the third-party person who served the summons left, someone took pictures at the door again.
After taking the photos, these people returned to a nearby commercial vehicle and sent the pictures immediately through a computer using a wireless network card. Some of their friends sold them to Twitter in exchange for checks.
Soon, a user named Michael with a black avatar posted a tweet.
"Seeking legal justice!"
Under the title, key video screenshots of last night's car accident were listed, photos of the fractures at the injured site, pictures of the hospital's surgery, some payment records, and Covina Mayor Irving and third party personnel are pictured leaving City Hall delivering subpoenas.
There is also a text description below, describing how the incident occurred and the approximate amount of the key claims.
Although Caroline didn't know why Hawke specifically told her to add the amount, she was a Miss Me who listened to her boss's instructions and did exactly what Hawke said without any discounts.
Based on the background program algorithm, priority is given to users in Covina and surrounding areas.
The news of Michael's injury claim, like the news of Irving's solicitation of prostitutes, spread on Twitter and became news easily accessible to users in Covina and surrounding areas.
At this time, in the Covina City Hall, a couple was having a quarrel.
In the front hall, Helen looked at her husband and threw a huge decorative vase in anger, yelling: "Owen Nester, you are so disgusting! This is what you call loyalty to marriage. When you were still a pauper, I married you, and you had to use my family property Are you treating me like this today?"
All her anger was summed up in one sentence: "Scumbag!"
Irving said: "Listen to my explanation, they are framing me. ! Framing me! It’s those bastards who want to discredit me!”
Helen sneered: "False accusation? Last month, the woman's hair in your car, the blood on your clothes, and the smell of perfume on your body were all false accusations?"
She had already noticed it, but she didn't Want to believe: "Do you dare to swear on the name of your mother that you have not played with other women?"
Hearing this sentence, Owen fell silent.
If Helen hadn't been too strong in the marriage...
"Disgusting!" Helen grabbed a cup and smashed it on the granite floor.
After the argument in front of so many people in the city hall, Helen turned around and left, saying as she walked: "Just wait for my divorce agreement!"
She came out of the city hall and got in the car, but she didn't act like that anger.
Helen wants to publicly break up with Owen because she has discovered over the years that Owen occasionally has blood stains on his body after attending some parties.
Before, she didn't think there was any problem with this.
But the situation in this year’s election seems to be that a huge wave is sweeping towards Irving. (End of chapter)