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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the July 20, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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NEW YORK:
ITALIAN RESTAURANT REFUSES TO SERVE 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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