NEWBURGH – Rob Minuta, who has owned a tattoo parlor, Casa di Dolore, in the City of Newburgh for seven years, said his rights are being infringed by being forced to stay closed.
Over the past three weeks, he has tattooed a couple of people a day with the shop closed. But, on this coming Saturday, he is going public, opening his doors in what he is calling “New York Freedom Rally.”
Standing behind the Constitution, Minuta said he will defy Governor Cuomo’s order.
“This is more about the infringement of our freedoms. I am definitely not doing myself any good financially by doing this, but I believe that my rights and the rights of everyone else are more important than my finances,” he told Mid-Hudson News.
Minuta terms his rally effort against Governor Cuomo’s executive orders “a display of defiance against a tyrannical dictator and a reminder that our rights shall not be infringed.”
The Hudson Valley has just entered phase one of the economic re-opening. Tattoo parlors are among the phase two businesses that will be allowed to reopen and that could be some two weeks later.
