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Beto Mocked On LA Billboard

John Bickley

Street artist Sabo and his “Unsavory Agents” have struck again, this time hitting failed Texas senatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, who announced that he’s “in” for the 2020 presidential race last Thursday — and promptly raised more than $6 million in 24 hours.

On a billboard on the corner of Pico and Beverly Glen Blvd across the street from Rancho Park Golf Course, Sabo installed his latest satirical street art piece early Tuesday morning: transforming a billboard depicting a car crashing into a building into a satirical reference to O’Rourke’s infamous drunk driving crash and subsequent arrest back in 1998. Last year, unearthed police reports revealed that a witness said O’Rourke attempted to flee the scene of the crime.

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