LMAO! Jeanine Pirro was thrown out of a northern NY diner while campaigning

mtnsnake

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Sat Nov-18-06 03:42 PM
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LMAO! Jeanine Pirro was thrown out of a northern NY diner while campaigning

to become NYS Attorney General just before Election Day in northern NY.

I don't think you'll find anything about this online. I was doing some business yesterday afternoon in another town in my area, and I glanced at a local paper while I was there, Friday's edition of The Courier Observer, and there was this headline on the front page saying, "GOP: Massena Diner Serving Cold Shoulder". Because of an incident there, some local Republicans are vowing to never eat at that restaurant again.

Apparently, Pirro, who most of you know was the corrupt Republican candidate that lost to Andrew Cuomo for Attorney General in NYS, was in the Massena, NY area campaigning the week before election day and went into a local diner for breakfast with the local GOP chair and a crew of other Republicans. According to the owner of the diner, Pirro and her crew took up residence at a couple of tables. "Three of them ordered coffee and the rest ordered water", the owner said. The owner then went on in the article to say how Pirro and her crew went around to tables occupied by other customers and bugged them about voting for Pirro. Those customers then complained to the owner that Pirro and her crew were infringing on them while they were eating and bothering them with their campaign tactics. The owner, whose policy is NOT to allow campaigning of any kind in her restaurant because her customers don't like it, promptly told Pirro and her crew, "Why don't you take this somewhere else?" She had no idea until later that day that the lady she had asked to get out of her restaurant was Jeanine Pirro. She said that organized groups usually call ahead when they're coming in to eat, and this group made no effort to do that.

According to the article, the owner said, "They were campaigning. We don't allow campaigning no matter who it is. This is a family restaurant. I don't think we ever talk politics. Everybody is treated the same here. It's not like we don't want Republicans or Democrats or Independents. That's never been the way we've operated."

Also according to the article, the GOP chair from Massena who had taken Pirro to this restaurant for breakfast said sarcastically, "Although I'll leave it up to the people of Massena, a number of us have decided to spend our time and money dining out at restaurants other than this one. This restaurant shouldn't be expected to contaminate their cash drawer with nasty Republican money. Maybe we should all start wearing a scarlet "R" on our clothes so the folks at this restaurant can easily identify us when they tell us to leave."

Anyway, after reading the article, my wife and I decided it would only be appropriate to gather up a few of our Democratic friends and drive to that diner in a show of support, which we're planning on doing tomorrow morning for breakfast. I'm going to tell the owner, if she's there, that she deserves a medal for throwing someone like Pirro out of her place, even if she didn't know at the time that it was Pirro she was showing the door to.