http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/26/us/connecticut-east-haven-tacos/index.html
Two days after a Connecticut mayor delivered an errant comment about eating tacos to support East Haven Latinos, some of whom are the alleged victims of police mistreatment, Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. apparently got his wish.Some 500 tacos were delivered to his office Thursday after a Latino activist group called Junta for Progressive Action launched a text-for-tacos campaign to draw attention to the comment, which Maturo later apologized for.In the interview Tuesday, a local reporter pointed out that there were no Latino officers on East Haven's police force."And your point being?" Maturo responded.Asked what he planned to do for the Latino community in light of the discrimination allegations, the mayor said, "I might have tacos when I go home, I'm not quite sure yet."That set off the activist group, a local branch of the Reform Immigration for America organization, which said that anytime someone texts the word "taco" to 69866, it will deliver a taco to the mayor on their behalf.They've received more than 2,600 texts, the group said in a statement Thursday.
Some 500 tacos were delivered to his office Thursday after a Latino activist group called Junta for Progressive Action launched a text-for-tacos campaign to draw attention to the comment, which Maturo later apologized for.
In the interview Tuesday, a local reporter pointed out that there were no Latino officers on East Haven's police force.
"And your point being?" Maturo responded.
Asked what he planned to do for the Latino community in light of the discrimination allegations, the mayor said, "I might have tacos when I go home, I'm not quite sure yet."
That set off the activist group, a local branch of the Reform Immigration for America organization, which said that anytime someone texts the word "taco" to 69866, it will deliver a taco to the mayor on their behalf.
They've received more than 2,600 texts, the group said in a statement Thursday.
― long duk dan (dan m), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:06 (fourteen years ago)
lol awesome
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:07 (fourteen years ago)
text sent
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:09 (fourteen years ago)
This is great. Text sent b
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:52 (fourteen years ago)
"The town of East Haven has received an abundance of tacos as a result of the campaign initiated by the group 'Reform Immigration for America,'"
I love that this sentence is real.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:53 (fourteen years ago)
A murder of crows, a pride of lions, an abundance of tacos
Free range, organic
Made out of the finest koala.
this is a conundrum because i am not racist but i do love free tacos so
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:54 (fourteen years ago)
the tragic part is that he was given no sour cream
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:55 (fourteen years ago)
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― try again, fascist (Matt P), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:59 (fourteen years ago)
this sounds like a waste of perfectly good tacos. can we redirect these tacos to the homeless or something?
― m white btw (get bent), Friday, 27 January 2012 00:03 (fourteen years ago)
The article says that after 500 were delivered the tacos were redirected in just such a fashion.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2012 00:14 (fourteen years ago)
oh yeah, i guess i could have read the article.
― m white btw (get bent), Friday, 27 January 2012 00:17 (fourteen years ago)
that article is biased. they were actually redirected to me, and i'm not homeless.
― try again, fascist (Matt P), Friday, 27 January 2012 00:19 (fourteen years ago)