The media continues to report on peaceful protesters.
Via Dallas News:
The upscale Italian restaurant Fiola will hire security guards after protesters confronted Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife while dining at the restaurant last week.
“We are now living in the aftermath of this PR disaster,” the owner said in an email to customers.
Last Monday, the senator and Heidi Cruz were chased out by about a dozen protesters regarding Ted Cruz’s support of embattled Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
In the email sent last weekend, owner and chef Fabio Trabocchi said the restaurant had to temporarily take down social media accounts because of hateful comments, and reservation lines were inundated with callers taunting staff and threatening to destroy the restaurant. The email said Trabocchi and his wife, Maria Font Trabocchi, have personally received death threats.
“We would have never thought such a thing was possible in the restaurant business,” the email said.
In addition to extra security, staff will be retrained to avoid similar instances and encouraged customers to keep coming to Fiola’s because it “will emerge from this challenge quickly.” […]
Members of the group told The Washington Post that they had been tipped off to the Cruzes’ reservation that evening and sat at Fiola’s bar for more than an hour awaiting his arrival.
Maria Trabocchi tweeted that the Cruzes later returned that night to finish their meals.
HT: Wirecutter