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Hispanic
Restaurant Made to Fight or License
The
licensing board will meet on Thursday June 27th to hear
the request of a business owner who wants to open a
Spanish restaurant on Common Street. But the restaurant
has not received a warm welcome from some of our city
fathers. Several comments were made at the last Licensing
board meeting that "there are already too many
Spanish restaurants in the City of Lawrence."
This clearly smacks of racism to me when you consider the
fact that private business owners have the right to
operate any kind of restaurant they want in a free
country and it seems they are being denied because of the
fact that it is a Spanish restaurant. For the Licensing
board to deny this license is a violation of the United
States Constitution and I don’t think we should
stand for it.
I plan on speaking in favor of the new restaurant at that
meeting on the 27th because private enterprise should
dictate how many is too many Spanish restaurants in this
city. If there are enough patrons in this city for the
restaurant to accommodate, given the numerous other
Spanish businesses we have located in Lawrence, then it
is the free market system which will dictate the clubs
failure or success.
I urge every person reading Rumbo to attend the meeting
and express your outrage at the possibility that this
restaurant will be denied a license for any reason other
than the lack of meeting legal requirements.
The meeting will be held at City Hall at 6.30 pm. It is
only through the voice of the people who pay attention in
the community that we will end this foolishness and
support capitalism in the private sector. Here is a
potential tax payer who is willing to brave the odds and
start a business in our city and what are they being
told? No thank you? Shame on anyone who stands in the way
of any business who wants to locate in Lawrence.
Is there any wonder why we have a shrinking tax base
while other communities are thriving?
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