‘Papers please’ ex-legislator booted from AZ Mexican restaurants in fundraiser flap

[warrior1]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/15/mexican-restaurants-library-decline-to-host-fundraiser-for-papers-please-az-lawmaker/

Arizona state senator Russell Pearce (R-18), the lawmaker who crafted the state’s controversial anti-immigration law, SB 1070, also known as the “Papers, please” law, was thrice denied a venue for a fundraiser scheduled for Thursday afternoon, June 14. According to the Arizona Capital Times, the former legislator asked two Mexican restaurants and a public school library to host the event, only to be told to please campaign somewhere else.

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The fundraising event was originally planned to be held at Macayo’s restaurant in Phoenix, but the plan was scuttled by activist Dee Dee Garcia Blase of Arizona’s Tequila Party, a conservative Latino group formed in reaction to the deportation-happy Tea Party. Garcia Blase organized a protest to be held outside the restaurant during the event and contacted Macayo’s corporate offices, which led the restaurant to cancel the event on Thursday morning.

By midday Thursday, Pearce’s campaign had emailed supporters announcing a second location, Oaxaca Restorante Y Cantina in downtown Phoenix. However, when Garcia Blase contacted Oaxaca’s management, the event was canceled within hours.

Oaxaca manager Joseph Aguayo told the Capital Times that Pearce’s campaign had booked the event under a false name. When Garcia Blase told him who the event was for, Aguayo barred the group from the restaurant. “We don’t need that,” he said, “We want to keep the support of our Latino community.”

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Aw.........what a shame...

I'll bet he never thought his actions would have consequences.

[tanyev]

2. Ay, caramba!

[Lionessa]

3. Excellent. Glad to see some blowback on him.

[SoutherDem]

4. How does he feel to be excluded?

I wish every restaurant, business and public venue which can say no does so.

[siligut]

5. The people have spoken

I love poetic justice. I do.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. Russell Pierce fund drive at Mexican restaurants? Seriously?

Can't he find a Bier Garten in Phoenix?

[Scootaloo]

11. Naw; the Amerikadeutscher Bund was mostly immigrants, too

[malthaussen]

7. So the restaurant owners were all for it,

... but backed down when the activist raised a stink. Somehow, Mr Aguayo's statement strikes me as a really poor effort at damage-control.

-- Mal

[obxhead]

13. I would like the whole story on this though.

The owners/management may not follow politics in the least. 90% of the people I know couldn't even name their own Congress/Senate critters much less what legislation they have fought for.

Is that a good excuse? Not really, it's just a fact of life in America.

[Trajan]

8. Isn't freedom wonderful ?

THIS is the loop closing .... This is how extremism is 'corrected' ... by freedom of choice ....

Conscientious objectors exercising their freedom to refuse patronage to extremist views .... It's a beautiful thing ....

Take your nonsense ELSEWHERE ! .... MFers !

[robinlynne]

9. Take that you scoundrel!

[freshwest]

20. +1

[tosh]

10. Tequila Party...

LOVE it!!! Shame it's a Conservative Latino group.

[Scootaloo]

12. Well, there's room for conservativism

Honestly, there is.

The trouble is just that "conservatives" in America are more often "fascist radicals."

However, with the tequila party... from Wiki...

The National Tequila Party (NTP) is a nonpartisan American political movement consisting of Latinos and their supporters. NTP's membership consists of independent, Democratic & Republican party members. It was formed in 2011 by DeeDee Garcia Blase, who was disappointed when she saw both political parties as failures, and their lack of policies on immigration.

The National Tequila Party Movement is a nonpartisan, Latina-led organization promoting a 2012 nationwide get-out-the-vote for young Latinos. The Tequila Party Movement also promotes the passage of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) and the DREAM Act at the national level. According to Blase, the organization arose to counter the Tea Party, and a growing anti-Latino, anti-immigrant sentiment within the Republican Party. However, many of its underlying precepts (anti-abortion, working for conservative Republican candidates) still places it on the conservative side of the spectrum.

In other words, they're wrong on some issues, but overall it seems rather sane.

[MADem]

16. I found that amusing as well. nt

[MnExpat]

14. Poor Pearce, even the GOP abandoned him in the recall

Of course we got a another racist Mormon repub, but Russell is gone.

And thank God a restaurant owner in Arizona can refuse service to anyone they find objectionable without repercussions. I hope Pearce tries to sue for violation of his civil rights and get slammed by the system again.

[surrealAmerican]

15. talk about chutzpah!

Why would he expect people who were harmed by his policies to want to host his campaign events?

[Ilsa]

17. Maybe he'll try a Taco Bell next. nt

[Canuckistanian]

21. Maybe a drive-through Taco Bell....

While wearing a disguise.

[Skidmore]

18. Being Rs. aside, the Tequila Party has the right idea

and one which could easily be adopted by the left. What bigger message could these radical big bidness Teabaggers get than shutting down their fundraising venues in smaller communities by refusing their business to hold them. Now that would be a good end run on Citizens United deep pockets. Just because there is money in deep pockets, doesn't mean that we couldn't drive them crazy by not allowing them to spend it for campaigning.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. guffaw........