Hundreds Of Protesters Urge "Dump Trump" As Repub Presidential Candidate Speaks Aboard USS Iowa

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by Barry Saks

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(Sept. 16, 2015) -- Hundreds of people, mostly from the San Pedro community, protested outside the USS Iowa in San Pedro on Sept. 15 while Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner for President, spoke on his national security priorities for the nation atop the battleship, now a museum.

Many protesters carried homemade signs in English and Spanish denouncing Trump's comments regarding Mexican immigrants who entered the U.S. without complying with immigration laws. One common protest sign read, "Trump Not Wanted Here" and another read, "Dump Trump."

While many protesters carried signs, others chanted. One chant was "Donald Trump has got to go." A second chant was "Donald Trump: He's a racist."

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Just before Mr. Trump's appearance, the local Democratic Party organized a press conference in which state Senator Isadore Hall, III (D, San Pedro) and south bay community leaders called upon the State of California and private businesses throughout the state to divest from Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.

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Ray Cordova, who identified himself as a Vietnam Veteran, emceed the press conference. Mr. Cordova said, "Today is the first day of National Hispanic Heritage Month. We recognize the contributions made and the important presence of Hispanic and Latino Americans. We did not risk our lives so are family members can wrongly be called rapists and murderers and drug dealers."

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As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, the CA state Senate voted 25-1 last week (Democrats in favor, all Republicans declining to cast recorded votes, except one who voted "no") on a non-binding resolution co-authored by Senator Hall condemning what it called Trump's "racist rhetoric against immigrant families." (LBREPORT.com coverage, click here.)

Video has appeared on YouTube of candidate Trump's speech aboard the USS Iowa; it's visible at this link.

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