Slog - Comments on Republican Pizza Party http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party (With apologies to Josh Feit.) The Honorable Carlos Gutierrez—Cuban refugee, former CEO of Kellogg, current U.S. Secretary of Commerce—is currently in a back room at Piecora's Pizza, stumping for John McCain to a group of Hispanic Republicans. Before that, he was in the front room at Piecora's, stumping for John McCain to a group of small business owners, many of them immigrants from Asia and Latin America, most of them in suits. One of the honkies in the room growled something about Obama. His friend responded in a falsetto, damsel-in-distress voice: "Oh Barack! He'll save us all!" Danny Piecora took... Copyright 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:09:09 -0800 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:47:04 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Elizabeth Yeah, take a good long look at those WHITE people standing there; a smorgasbord of rightwing fuckwads.

]]> Elizabeth http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095288 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095288 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:21:24 -0800 Comment by elswinger I stopped going to Piecora's when it started having Sunday church services. Too bad because I liked their pizza.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095292 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095292 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:23:12 -0800 Comment by Brendan Kiley To be fair, Elizabeth, that corner was a magnet for white people. I don't know if they all came together or what. The immigrants in suits stood directly in front of the Honorable Secretary.

]]> Brendan Kiley http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095300 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095300 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:29:16 -0800 Comment by RonK, Seattle Factcheck: Carlos Gutierrez never obtained a college degree.

]]> RonK, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095302 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095302 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:30:22 -0800 Comment by Brendan Kiley And the big prize goes to RonK. Thanks for the correction.

]]> Brendan Kiley http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095307 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095307 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:35:18 -0800 Comment by max solomon Obama deserves a vacation - a real, 2 weeks long, lazy, sundrenched, smoke-all-the-cigarettes-he-wants, fruity-drinks-on-the-beach, sleep late, screw-michelle-silly vacation.

He took down the Clinton machine, which is hard work, and he's not going to get another REAL vacation till Jan. 20, 2017.

The fact that he wants this crap job at all is reason enough to elect him.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095313 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095313 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:43:21 -0800 Comment by PC Um, could be a mistake to go to Hawaii and lounge for a week. That's not the message we need right now. As the link says, "Perhaps more worrisome for Obama, a new poll shows voters may be tiring of him. So he will fulfill a popular workplace dream: a weeklong getaway on a sunny island. Apart from a fundraising event Tuesday, Obama's plan is to rest, not troll for votes, aides said."

C'mon. He could do 3 hours of events each day and still have a vacation. HE could fly to AK midweek and put it in play with one big speech (20K would be huge for Alaska they only have about 300K voters I think) for real and nail the GOP as tied to Stevens poster boy pf ocrruption and bribery. Then take a few days there.

Do you not see that GOP will say Congress is on vacation, Obama is on vacation, those Dems don't care about your rising gas prices? There will be photos of Obama playing with his kids in the surf whilst others of us Americans will be feeling pain at the gas pumps, and those will be composited into GOP ads?

I think if he needs rest we could satisfy that need and keep semblance of a campaign going and avoid the tropical luau music themed ads the GOP will run.


]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095328 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095328 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:55:30 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Holy fuck, I had no idea Piecora's was run by a right-wing tool. I shall never be back. (And that dude does NOT look Italian).

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095330 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095330 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:00:06 -0800 Comment by Uncle Vinny Yeah, I'm afraid that's the end of the line for me and Piecora's, too.

]]> Uncle Vinny http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095340 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095340 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:09:42 -0800 Comment by demo kid Two restaurants in one week that I can't go to anymore because the owners are right-wing fuckwads. Not a good week.

]]> demo kid http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095343 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095343 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:13:06 -0800 Comment by Seattle Crime Blogger Anyone who has anything to do with the Discovery Institute is an asshole, far as I'm concerned.

]]> Seattle Crime Blogger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095355 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095355 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:30:22 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster @10,

What's the other one?

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095368 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095368 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:44:21 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell Don't let this make you stop going to Piecora's: the business is run by two brothers, one of them right-wing, the other left. The Capitol Hill Piecora's hosted the Dean meet-ups, back in the day, and they were tremendous supporters of a little anti-Bush feature film we made next door.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095389 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095389 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:17:01 -0800 Comment by Ignatz Ratzkeratzke And seriously, some of you won't eat pizza because the guy who made it is a Republican?

The world is way too small to segregate ourselves for silly reasons like that. Go get a slice and tell Danny he's wrong; my guess is that he'll be up for a debate.

]]> Ignatz Ratzkeratzke http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095409 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095409 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:47:55 -0800 Comment by Street Smart @ 14) That's right. The owner of the "The Deluxe" is also a Republican.

]]> Street Smart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095412 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095412 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:55:35 -0800 Comment by DOUG. The owner of The Deluxe is a piece of shit. Any operation run by Suzie Burke will never see my dollar. Fuck Piecoras, Dean Meet-Ups or not. The only vote that matters in America is the one that pays the bills. The debate is over, Cogswell, these motherfuckers are murderers.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095452 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095452 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:55:19 -0800 Comment by TLB Bad reporting, plus racism on the side. A real reporter would have at least asked CG a question or three, such as about this program or all the many other things he was involved in.

]]> TLB http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095466 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095466 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:25:45 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV The biggest betrayal is probably the presence of President Laura Roslin in the bottom picture.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095526 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095526 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:30:07 -0800 Comment by Racist Watch I AGREE WITH 17 ALL REPORTERS ARE RACIST AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR! I CALL FOR A DAY OF SOLIDARITY AND A GENERAL STRIKE! MEET AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING AT 9 AM! WE'LL MARCH SOMEWHERE FROM THERE, AND WE WON'T STOP UNTIL OUR FEET HURT!

]]> Racist Watch http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095672 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095672 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:30:35 -0800 Comment by Vince Too expensive anyway.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095676 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095676 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:40:20 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens Grant @13,

Thought you might be interested in this. You've been cited!

On a related note, any idea when that Zioncheck movie's coming out?

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095682 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095682 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:33:02 -0800 Comment by Gitai Hmmm...pretty ballsy to hold a GOP fundraiser on Capitol Hill. Mind you, I'll be punishing that ballsiness by not eating at Piecora's ever again.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095687 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095687 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:40:46 -0800 Comment by Gitai Re: The Deluxe

The best reason not to eat there is because the food and service suck.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095688 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095688 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:42:49 -0800 Comment by Yardlie "Viet Cong publicity stunt"? He was a prisoner in Hanoi, not in a tiger cage in South Vietnam.

]]> Yardlie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095690 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095690 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:54:18 -0800 Comment by John Bailo
Going after Hispanics...in Seattle...near Capital Hill.

That's like Snake Pliskin heading into New York to save the President!

Republicans Rule!

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095691 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095691 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:55:16 -0800 Comment by COMTE Right @25, 'cause, you know, using the metaphor of sending a multiple-times convicted felon into a hotzone to pull a right-wing, law-and-order, string-'em-up CiC's ass out of the proverbial fire, it makes said right-wing preznit look soooo preznitential in comparison.

Nice job, suckah.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095708 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095708 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:19:16 -0800 Comment by annie @21: Daddy Gyllenhaal was in the Stranger offices the other day, scouting locations. So... I'd guess the release date is one to two years in the future.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095711 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095711 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:24:29 -0800 Comment by krab apple @4- fact check:the article states he never received a degree.

]]> krab apple http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095729 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095729 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:46:54 -0800 Comment by David A One fund raiser for a candidate you don't agree with and you are willing to abandon a pizza joint you otherwise adore? Get off you f-ing high horse people. This is madness and your demand that everyone you interact with think exactly like you is just as frightening as the extremism on the other side. Can it be that much of a shock to you that a small business owner is a Republican?

]]> David A http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095733 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095733 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:57:29 -0800 Comment by monkey I guess it's a good thing I never go there then.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095736 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095736 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:42 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV The Romios guy was a rabid right-winger back in the day, too.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095738 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095738 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:02:08 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways uh, yeah, why DOES Capitol Hill go to Piecora's? The owner's a wanker who's diametrically opposed to what the vast majority of Capitol Hillians believe in, and more importantly, the pizza sucks...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095741 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095741 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:06:32 -0800 Comment by Seattle Expat well any pizza place in Seattle sucks.

]]> Seattle Expat http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095758 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095758 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:23:48 -0800 Comment by billy ray I stopped eating @ Piecora's in the early '90s as it was filled with junkies, cokeheads and tweakers. I was honestly afraid of finding a needle in my salad.

]]> billy ray http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095763 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095763 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:37:06 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle If you want another Five Year Plan of Failure, McSame's your hombre.

Just don't expect a refund after he completes the looting of America for the top 0.1 percent of Americans while the rest of us starve.

Literally.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095799 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095799 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:13:02 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle max for the win @6.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095801 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095801 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:14:35 -0800 Comment by Elvis THE HORROR. A republican in seattle. run for your lives and check your wallet.

jesus, you guys sound like the friggin' intolerent assholes you hate so much.

]]> Elvis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095845 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095845 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:51:51 -0800 Comment by fanatical the folks at Piecoras are some of the most open and friendly to opposing viewpoints as I've ever come across. While they do support some right-wing freak-o's, they warmly embrace everyone and will respect and defend everyone's right to believe as they wish. It's pretty lame to disassociate oneself from another human being just because they believe something different than you.

]]> fanatical http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095880 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095880 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:17:12 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @37 - don't like it?

Move.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095888 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095888 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:21:05 -0800 Comment by David A. @39 -- Wow - now you are even using the conservatives arguments. Love it or leave it wasn't a good argument in the '60s and its not a good one now.

]]> David A. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095896 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1095896 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:33:19 -0800 Comment by DOUG. @29, @37, @38: So you've never heard of economic sanctions or boycotts? That's all this is. If you support the Bush/McCain policies of endless pre-emptive wars, for-profit prisons and warrantless wiretaps, then I'm going to avoid spending a single penny at your establishment if I can.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1096207 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/republican_pizza_party#c1096207 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:47:04 -0800