A taco truck on every corner? How about a taco truck at every polling site instead.
The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce hopes that a new campaign to bolster taco truck vendors will serve as a strong symbolic response to a supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who warned last week that the "dominant" and "imposing" Latino culture might lead to "taco trucks on every corner."
On Tuesday, the Hispanic Chamber, which says it represents 4.1 million Hispanic-owned businesses nationwide, took things a step further, announcing a "Guac the Vote" campaign to encourage taco truck owners to register customers to vote and then to park outside polling sites on Election Day in a symbolic, if tasty, protest of Gutierrez's comments. READ MORE AT THE TIMES BATON ROUGE
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