Austin taco trucks to register voters in push to boost Latino turnout
Pushing back at comments from the founder of Latinos for Trump, a pair of Austinites are enlisting taco trucks to register voters in Travis County.
Marco Gutierrez, a supporter of Republican Donald Trumps presidential run, famously told MSNBC last month: My culture is a very dominant culture, and its imposing, and its causing problems. If you dont do something about it, youre going to have taco trucks on every corner.
Those comments led Audrey Maker, a project manager for a tech startup whose husband is originally from Honduras, and Jose Valera, a part owner of Tamale House East, to team up for a voter registration effort.
Building on a voter registration campaign organized by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, theyre calling their effort Guac the Vote.
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