See the vid above to get what kind of people own this restaurant. The kind of people the right wing thugs and bullies hone in on. They just didn’t want to be props.
DENVER – A Mexican restaurant in the Highlands neighborhood declined a Mitt Romney campaign stop.
Now the owners of Rosa Linda’s Mexican Café are getting death threats, nasty threatening phone calls, and insulting e-mails criticizing their choice.
“I don’t want people to be angry at me,” Rosa Linda Aguirre, the owner of the neighborhood staple, said. “I feel that this is really going out of proportion. I’m sorry if I offended somebody or everybody. I did not mean to do that.”
The café has been in the neighborhood for a very long time. The Aguirres, originally from Mexico, are U.S. citizens. They’re Mormon.
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“We don’t want to be a tool. We don’t want to be anything more than a place of gathering and a home,” Oscar Aguirre, Rosa Linda’s son and a restaurant employee, said.
“People are saying they want to see us out of business. I’m like, we didn’t do anything,” he said. “We just didn’t want to be a campaign stop. Mr. Romney, come and eat tomorrow. He’s welcome. President Obama is welcome; former President Bush is welcome; President Clinton, they’re welcome. It doesn’t matter. We’re a place of family and a place of community.”
Aguirre said he’s been receiving death threats and ugly emails. A customer Wednesday ordered $120 worth of food, and then cancelled the order when it was already cooked.
“People are hateful,” Oscar said. “I got death threats last night, people calling me, telling me that they live down the street. They’re going to come and get me. The phone has been ringing off the hook.”
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