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D.C. restaurant hires guards after anti-Kavanaugh crowd harasses Ted Cruz and wife
dallasnews.com ^ | Matthew Adams

Posted on 10/02/2018 2:08:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

The upscale Italian restaurant Fiola will hire security guards after protesters confronted Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife while dining at the restaurant last week.

“We are now living in the aftermath of this PR disaster," the owner said in an email to customers.

Last Monday, the senator and Heidi Cruz were chased out by about a dozen protesters regarding Ted Cruz's support of embattled Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

In the email sent last weekend, owner and chef Fabio Trabocchi said the restaurant had to temporarily take down social media accounts because of hateful comments, and reservation lines were inundated with callers taunting staff and threatening to destroy the restaurant. The email said Trabocchi and his wife, Maria Font Trabocchi, have personally received death threats.

“We would have never thought such a thing was possible in the restaurant business,” the email said.

In addition to extra security, staff will be retrained to avoid similar instances and encouraged customers to keep coming to Fiola’s because it “will emerge from this challenge quickly.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: fiola; flashmob; leftwingnuts; obamasfault; rudedems
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To: dp0622

It’s time. I’ve had all I can take of this. Someone needs a beatdown as a message to others you can NOT do that. Neither side can run someone out of a restaurant. No.


21 posted on 10/02/2018 3:49:50 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: SkyPilot
...take down social media accounts because of hateful comments, and reservation lines were inundated with callers taunting staff and threatening to destroy the restaurant.

Hitler's Brownshirts would be so proud of today's American Leftists.

22 posted on 10/02/2018 4:08:28 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: dp0622

“That’s one less Conservative vote but TWO less piece of sh.t votes.”

Absentee ballot. ;-)


23 posted on 10/02/2018 4:08:43 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Anyone that votes for a Dem is sick.

I hope they lose a million votes over this persecution of Kavanaugh.

24 posted on 10/02/2018 4:12:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RoosterRedux

What you do is hire Carlo, the guy with no neck. Stays at the restaurant. When someone harasses a legitimate customer, he makes sure that they can never do it again.
Cabeesh?


25 posted on 10/02/2018 4:57:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: RoosterRedux
“We are now living in the aftermath of this PR disaster," the owner said in an email to customers.

Self imposed. You should have done something about the protesters immediately.

26 posted on 10/02/2018 4:59:41 AM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: dp0622

I’ve been told Southern US culture is very similar to Italian culture in this regard. Would you agree?


27 posted on 10/02/2018 5:54:00 AM PDT by Oklahoma
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To: SkyPilot

My father grew up in Baltimore and has talked about the 1968 riots and the lines that were drawn. During the curfew, Little Italy operated as normal and the restaurants were all open. There were armed men on the rooftops and patrolling the streets and everyone felt safe.

The rioters dare not cross the line.


28 posted on 10/02/2018 6:34:54 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: Truth29

Actually, the left wants to turn America into 1930’s Germany.


29 posted on 10/02/2018 7:19:27 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: Oklahoma

VERY.

You would welcome me in your neighborhood and I you :)

We Italians on staten island are called “rednecks” by the losers from the other four boroughs.

Some say we are southerners, we just don’t live there.

And we believe that if a person enters your house with ANY bad intent, however small, he needs to die as long as it’s legal.

Very Very hard to own a gun in NYC but not impossible.

And many of us do.

#### Cuomo and Deblasio

The founding fathers said I could have one.

That’s enough for me.


30 posted on 10/02/2018 1:33:24 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

ROFL!!!

I started getting those when i was laid up from an injury for a year or so and had trouble getting about.

They still send them so it saves me a trip to the polling station :)


31 posted on 10/02/2018 1:34:20 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

You are VERY CORRECT.

And why were these people able to openly talk to a wa post reporter?

Why aren’t they arrested?

God knows we would be.

In THIS case, I would be glad that my temper acted before i thought things through.

Sometimes thinking too much is no good. It freezes one from acting. I tell my nephews and nieces to think but not OVERthing things and then make your moves in life.

Had they tried to take down the Columbus statue the liberals would have caught a TREMENDOUS, TREMENDOUS beating from 100’s of Italians.

Not the ones that decided they weren’t 2nd generation Italians anymore but landed at Plymouth Rock :) Those ones moved to Westchester and some southern parts of NJ.

We here in NYC can still be as brutal as the first wave that came here.

Hard working blue collar or educated and white collar, but brutal nonetheless when it is called for.


32 posted on 10/02/2018 1:38:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: SkyPilot
I remember the Italian neighborhoods where I grew up. If people committed crimes against widows in the neighborhood, well, they knew how to deal with things.

Same here. Took care of things "South Philly style."

33 posted on 10/02/2018 3:36:23 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump hates negative publicity, unless he generates it. -Corey Lewandowski)
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