Larry Whitten Opens Hotel In New Mexico, Wants Employees To Anglicize Names

A mustachioed man who flies around the country and saves failing hotels says he has a method to his madness. Larry Whitten says his method of fixing hotels in trouble is costly but effective and one part of his method is asking the employees to Anglicize their names. Martín (Mar-teen) should be Martin (Mar-tun). His lawyer, Alan Maestas, agrees and says it is “more hospitable” and “more polite” to go by an Anglicized name. But his method failed in Taos, New Mexico when the employees became offended.

Whitten and his lawyer sat through a CNN interview that raised questions about the Latinos (perhaps former employees?) who are picketing outside the hotel in Taos and about LULAC prompting Latinos not to patronize any of Mr. Whitten’s businesses.

But they didn’t ask the questions I have:
1. How do you open 20 hotels before this one and not come across this issue? Didn’t anyone at the other 20 hotels say something?
2. Why is the lawyer producing more cringe-worthy moments than the guy who owns the place?