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suffragette

(12,232 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 12:37 PM Feb 2016

Latino leaders rally as a show of political force


http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2016/01/29/latino-leaders-rally-political-force/79350072/

To kick start those efforts, progressive Latino leaders from across Southern California and their supporters gathered Thursday night in Colton for a discussion about their national potential in 2016, as well as a debate over which Democratic presidential candidate deserves support.

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The next 30 minutes were punctuated by sporadic "Feel the Bern" chants, as the audience was then asked to approach the mic and take a side, the vast majority of whom spoke on behalf of Sanders. Alejandra Zamora, a student at College of the Desert, asked rhetorically of Clinton supporters: "Do we really want a president owned by corporations?"

However, the straw vote at the end of the evening was much closer: Clinton 50, Sanders 51.



Starting to look like a grassroots change from what the mainstream media is reporting. And the shift is toward Sanders.
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