Original sentence: In June 2007, after learning that an attempted budget maneuver would be unsuccessful, Daly "went ballistic -- singling out fellow progressive leader Ross Mirkarimi for a tongue lashing so heated that fellow supervisors joked about calling in the SWAT team to cool things down"
Edited sentence: In June 2007, after learning that an attempted budget maneuver would be unsuccessful, Daly harshly criticized fellow progressive leader Ross Mirkarimi, to the point that fellow supervisors joked about "calling in the SWAT team to cool things down"