By Miriam Raftery
February 7, 2017 (El Cajon) – A protest outside the El Cajon office of Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) today drew about 50 to 60 constituents, undaunted by rainy weather.
Several met with Hunter’s staff inside while others rallied on the street outside.
The event was organized by a group calling itself Indivisible, formed to resist the Trump agenda, according to its website: https://www.indivisibleguide.com/. Hunter was an early endorser of Donald Trump and has continued to stand by the President.
The group cited opposition to Trump’s executive orders banning refugees and his call to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, as well as Trump’s appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General and Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary.
Hunter serves in the House, not the Senate, and cannot vote on cabinet appointments. He has, however, been a vocal supporter of cracking down on illegal immigration including Trump’s plan to build a border wall.
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This was not a violent protest so the term "rioter" is false and defamatory. There is also zero evidence that people protesting Hunter were paid. I know many of them as regular long-time readers or members of local progressive or Democratic clubs. Just as the Tea Party activists locally were generally not paid (despite rumors to that effect) there is also zero evidence that any of these people got a dime.
Any future comments calling peaceful citizens' gatherings riots will be deleted. East County is not Berkeley.
Hahahaha
And not a single one of the paid DNC rioters missed a day of work.