DENVER – The owners of a Denver restaurant have been getting death threats and angry phone calls and emails after they say they turned down a campaign visit by Mitt Romney.
Oscar Aguirre owns Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe with his parents. They started getting angry messages after Westword reported their decision Oct. 2
. He said some mistakenly thought they had refused to serve Romney.
In August, Aguirre says a Romney supporter requested bringing the GOP candidate to the restaurant partly because his parents are Mormon but they refused. He says they’re not partisan, would welcome a sitting president but don’t want to be a campaign stop.
A campaign spokesman told The Denver Post it only asked the restaurant to join the campaign and host occasional events and regrets the anger being directed the owners.