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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Aldo J. Tatangelo, Sr. (September 16, 1913 – March 7, 2008) was a mayor of Laredo, Texas, who served from 1978 to 1990. He is often credited with having obtained the paving of the large majority of Laredo streets, some of which were being resurfaced on the day of Tatangelo's death.Tatangelo succeeded the scandal-plagued administration of Mayor Jose C. \"Pepe\" Martin, Jr., who, like Martin's father before him, exerted vast powers as a south Texas patron, or political boss, and accrued vast wealth.Son Aldo Tatangelo, Jr. (April 2, 1945 – May 25, 2010), of Laredo proclaimed that his father \"set Laredo free and changed how people thought. He pointed the city in a new direction and wanted it to be open and prosperous.\" Previously, he noted, that many in Laredo were \"fearful of doing the wrong thing or of getting fired if they voted for the wrong person or if they said or did the wrong thing.\" In this sense, \"wrong\" meant taking a position counter to that of the former power elite.Like his father, Tatangelo, Jr., was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was a downtown Laredo merchant for many years. Speaking on March 10, 2008, at his father's rosary, the junior Tatangelo continued: \"My dad and Laredo had a love affair for thirty-five years. They (people of Laredo) loved him, he loved them. They broke the mold when they made Aldo. There'll never be another one. It's interesting when a man can have that kind of a feeling for a city, and the city return it.\""@en }

• Aldo_Tatangelo abstract "Aldo J. Tatangelo, Sr. (September 16, 1913 – March 7, 2008) was a mayor of Laredo, Texas, who served from 1978 to 1990. He is often credited with having obtained the paving of the large majority of Laredo streets, some of which were being resurfaced on the day of Tatangelo's death.Tatangelo succeeded the scandal-plagued administration of Mayor Jose C. \"Pepe\" Martin, Jr., who, like Martin's father before him, exerted vast powers as a south Texas patron, or political boss, and accrued vast wealth.Son Aldo Tatangelo, Jr. (April 2, 1945 – May 25, 2010), of Laredo proclaimed that his father \"set Laredo free and changed how people thought. He pointed the city in a new direction and wanted it to be open and prosperous.\" Previously, he noted, that many in Laredo were \"fearful of doing the wrong thing or of getting fired if they voted for the wrong person or if they said or did the wrong thing.\" In this sense, \"wrong\" meant taking a position counter to that of the former power elite.Like his father, Tatangelo, Jr., was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was a downtown Laredo merchant for many years. Speaking on March 10, 2008, at his father's rosary, the junior Tatangelo continued: \"My dad and Laredo had a love affair for thirty-five years. They (people of Laredo) loved him, he loved them. They broke the mold when they made Aldo. There'll never be another one. It's interesting when a man can have that kind of a feeling for a city, and the city return it.\"".