Maureen ‘Mo’ Tucker, the cooler than cool drummer for The Velvet Underground has confirmed that it was indeed her in footage of a right wing rally against US Government intervention in the economy, which took the web by storm last week.
In the Youtube clip, she says “I’m furious about the way we’re being led toward socialism.” In an interview with the St Louis Riverfront Times, she has said she’s against the Obama administration’s spending on welfare programs.
She said: “My family was damn poor when I was growing up on Long Island. There were no food stamps, no Medicaid, no welfare. If you were poor, you were poor. You didn’t have a TV, you didn’t have five pairs of shoes, you didn’t have Levis, you didn’t have a phone; you ate Spam, hot dogs, and spaghetti. We all survived! I am not against food stamps, welfare or Medicaid, if only they would oversee these programs properly!”
She says that she’s a lifelong Democrat voter who is unhappy with the current administration, and isn’t involved with the Tea Party movement. She’s also no fan of George W. Bush or Sarah Palin, and says she’s no right winger. “Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not a fool, a racist, a Nazi. Anyone who knows me knows I’m afraid of flying, afraid of bugs, but not afraid to say what I think.”
