Activists Send 400 Tacos To East Haven Mayor After Infamous Quip
CBS New York
January 26, 2012
Joseph Maturo Jr. In Serious Damage Control Mode Following Jest Gone Awry
EAST HAVEN, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) “” The office of East Haven”s mayor was blasted with prank phone calls and a delivery of hundreds of tacos Thursday after his now-famous quip that he would address accusations of anti-Latino bias by eating tacos, a remark that left emotions raw in the town”s large Hispanic community.
Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. has apologized several times but resisted calls for his resignation over remarks he made to a television reporter following Tuesday”s arrests of four town police officers, men described by one FBI official as “bullies with badges.”
Maturo held regular meetings Thursday as Connecticut”s Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission called on him to resign.
“The Latino community is upset and deeply wounded in what should have been a day of redemption for them,” the commission”s acting executive director, Werner Oyandel, said in a written statement, calling the comment “unprofessional and given in poor taste.”
Watch Maturo”s “˜Taco” interview below (YouTube)
An immigration rights group, Reform Immigration for America, delivered 400 tacos to his Town Hall office in protest, though Maturo had left shortly beforehand for a meeting. A soup kitchen picked up the tacos, but one was left symbolically for the mayor. Continue reading “East Haven Mayor Pranked with Tacos”