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Monday, February 4, 2019 by Jack Craver
For the fourth consecutive year, City Council kicked off its first meeting of the year with a “wellness workout,” led by local fitness coach Dionne Ross. A 20-second video showing Council members and city staff exhibiting varying levels of enthusiasm for the Zumba routine generated quite a bit of activity on Twitter, but not nearly as much as the remix of the clip done by the popular Twitter personality @EvilMopacATX, who synced the clip to Maroon 5’s “Sugar.”
It would be a shame if anyone RT this moment via @JackCraver from today’s Austin City Council meeting that I may have done a bit of construction work on… pic.twitter.com/1xbqgAzyEC
— Evil MoPac (@EvilMopacATX) January 31, 2019
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