Our friend, Alan Gerard Hartman, of  the Web Site and List Serv : ITA-Sicily
had his Letter to the Editor to Newsday printed today.
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MAYOR IS RUDE 

Regarding "Not Looking Good, Fella" [News, Oct. 11]: I feel that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's rudeness and disrespect toward the Columbus Citizens Foundation shows his great insensitivity toward the 900,000 Italian-Americans in New York City and the 15 million Italian-Americans in this country. 

Regardless of who Lorraine Bracco and Dominic Chianese are, I feel that if the organizing groups of a parade clearly state that someone is unwelcome, it is terrible that Bloomberg feels he can disregard their authority in the parade. 

He is clearly ill-prepared to deal with the Italian-Americans he represents as mayor.

Alan Gerard Hartman
Greenlawn 
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