{"id":452573,"date":"2026-09-30T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452573\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T23:20:11","slug":"owner-of-one-guy-from-italy-speaks-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452573\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of \u2018One Guy From Italy\u2019 speaks at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The owner of Lubbock\u2019s \u201cOne Guy From Italy\u201d spoke at a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While thanking his supporters at the end of the event, President Trump invited Gabriel Vitela to the podium to address the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Vitela thanked the president for the \u201cno tax on tips and overtime\u201d legislation he supported, which is now a federal income tax deduction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cA Hispanic man that owns an Italian restaurant, married to a white woman from Lubbock, Texas, getting to speak at the White House,\u201d Vitela said. \u201cI\u2019ve waited tables, I\u2019ve bartended, and I have the privilege of employing great people. Great people who work just as hard as I once did. So when we talk about no tax on tips and overtime, I don\u2019t see numbers. I see hard working moms and dads that are trying to buy groceries, that are paying light bills, and they\u2019re trying to give their children a better life than they had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Vitela is also the owner of Giorgio\u2019s Pizza on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The owner of Lubbock\u2019s \u201cOne Guy From Italy\u201d spoke at a Hispanic Heritage Month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-452573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}