At the Long Beach Press-Telegram, "San Pedro not happy about Donald Trump’s event at Battleship Iowa":
San Pedro is not reacting kindly to Donald Trump’s scheduled national security speech at the Battleship Iowa next week.More at that top link.
In fact, some serious name-calling has erupted in an online petition, signed by nearly 3,000 people, that encourages cancellation of the celebrity presidential candidate’s visit.
“Donald Trump is an arrogant, racist, misogynist buffoon,” said one resident who signed an online petition titled “Tell the USS Iowa: We Don’t Want Trump in San Pedro, CA.”
Other petitioners were just as blunt in their rhetoric about the celebrity presidential candidate’s Tuesday appearance, sponsored by a veterans group.
• “We do not need discrimination of any type, San Pedro is a humble town and does not need Trump to come and mix waters.”
• “San Pedro is a melting pot of different cultures — Donald Trump has already made his intolerance clear; he has no place in our community.”
• “He’s a buffoon. He’s a racist. It is a city built on blue-collar labor. Does Trump know what that is? And much of that labor comes from immigrants. They are welcome here in Pedro. You, Trump, are not.”
Gabriela Lopez of San Pedro, a 25-year-old aspiring physician, started the petition that asks Los Angeles Councilman Joe Buscaino to send Trump packing before he arrives in the port union stronghold.
“It was shocking to me that he would be speaking (at) the battleship,” Lopez said.
The ship, she said, should be neutral political territory.
And it is, said Jonathan Williams, CEO and president of the Battleship Iowa, the floating museum that has been in San Pedro since 2012.
“As a 501(c)(3), we are nonpolitical and apolitical. We can’t endorse or promote any political candidate,” Williams said. “We provide a community platform to all groups and organizations, regardless of political affiliation.”
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