East Haven Mayor Joe Maturo
The day after East Haven Mayor Joe Maturo made his controversial “tacos” comment, a grassroots immigration reform group visited his office and delivered hundreds of tacos in response.
By now, you are probably aware of the comments that put East Haven in the national spotlight.
Hours after several members of the police department were arrested, accused of racial profiling, a reporter from PIX asked the mayor what he was doing for the Latino community.
“I might have tacos when I go home, I’m not quite sure yet,” Maturo said, in part. He apologized on Wednesday afternoon, but the backlash had already begin.
In response to the comments, Reform Immigration FOR America launched a Twitter campaign, promising to send the mayor one taco for every text it received with the word “TACO.”
As of 10 p.m., the group had received more than 2,000 text messages, they posted on Twitter. They delivered the first wave of about 500 tacos on Thursday.
via Immigration Reform Group Brings Mayor Tacos | NBC Connecticut
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