| ...that’s Joseph "Jose" Alcoff, also known as Jose Martin when on television pushing socialism and as Chepe in his more violent Communist mode, who along with Philly Antifa leader Thomas Keenan and Thomas Massey was arrested after viciously attacking a couple of Marines for being in the wrong place ... |
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...mob in November that attacked two Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, both Hispanic. Alcoff and two others charged in the attack have pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
But while Democratic officials are distancing themselves from Alcoff now, until recently he was a well-connected, aspiring political player in Washington who may have even had a hand in key policy proposals.
His endorsement apparently mattered when several congressional Democrats in February 2018 issued blurbs with his quote backing their bill on regulating payday lenders.
As the payday campaign manager for the liberal group Americans for Financial Reform, Alcoff participated in congressional Democratic pressers, was a guest on a House Democratic podcast and met with bigwigs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2016 through 2018.