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Onorato, Drozd Share Heated Exchange Over Drink Tax
Pittsburgh Restaurant Owner Challenges Onorato To Boxing Match
Onorato Says He'll Stop By Restaurant To Talk Out Differences
POSTED: 10:56 am EST January 18,
2008
UPDATED: 11:15 am EST January 18,
2008
PITTSBURGH -- A Pittsburgh restaurant owner wants to box Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato in an effort to overturn a 10 percent tax on alcoholic drinks.Jim Mitchell, who owns Mitchell's Restaurant, Bar & Banquet Center wants to fight Onorato as part of a charity amateur boxing card on Feb. 9.If the 49-year-old restaurant owner wins, he wants the tax overturned. If Onorato wins, Mitchell said he wants to let Onorato have a countywide smoking ban that Mitchell successfully challenged with a lawsuit in May.Onorato said he will stop by Mitchell's on Friday with two cigars so he and Mitchell can try to settle their differences over a smoke and a beer.
Previous Stories:
- January 16, 2008: Onorato Gets Fired Up Over Drink Tax Critics
- January 15, 2008: Onorato Blasts County Council Effort To Repeal Drink Tax
- January 15, 2008: Drink Tax Could Go Away
- December 28, 2007: Allegheny County Drink Tax Injunction Denied
- December 27, 2007: Local Restaurant, Bar Owners Fight Drink Tax
- December 14, 2007: Bar Owner Has Message For Onorato
- December 5, 2007: Dan Onorato Responds To Drink Tax Debate
- November 30, 2007: Opponents of Drink Tax Release Study on Impact
- October 2, 2007: Allegheny County Council Proposes Drink Tax
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