NEW YORK
Italian restaurant refuses to server Mayor Giuliani
By G. Dunkel
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's racist and anti-working class
policies and pro-cop stance have enraged many and not only in
the Black and Latino communities of New York. His
demonization of Patrick Dorismond after undercover cops shot
the unarmed Haitian worker also alienated many progressive
whites in the city and around the state.
And now, with his career in shambles, Giuliani is finding
it hard to even get a reservation in a fancy eatery.
The last week of June, the mayor and his
entourage--including Police Commissioner Howard Safir--tried
to get reservations at Josepina, one of the most fashionable
and posh Italian restaurants in the Bronx.
The first time City Hall called for a reservation, Charles
LoPresto, the owner, hung up. He thought it was a joke. A
friend of Giuliani's who is a regular at Josepina called back
in half an hour to confirm that the request was real.
LoPresto still refused.
"I would've felt hypocritical to take his business,"
LoPresto told the Daily News, adding that Safir was also
unwelcome. "I find them both morally objectionable."
Citing Giuliani's handling of the police shooting of
Dorismond, LoPresto added that "when people have suffered
unnecessarily, he has shown no sympathy and no remorse."
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