Posted on 01/07/2019 10:19:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
STORM LAKE, Iowa — A Minnesota supporter of President Donald Trump is facing a disorderly conduct charge stemming from a weekend altercation at an Iowa rally for Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Photos from Warren's rally Saturday in Storm Lake show 58-year-old Randal Thom, of Lakefield, Minnesota, carrying a sign that read "Keep America Great" — which was a reference to Trump's "Make America Great Again" 2016 campaign slogan.
Police say Thom was involved in an argument with supporters of the Massachusetts senator that turned physical, and that some punches were thrown. There were no injuries and no one else was arrested...
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If Marshalltown is about as bad, Storm Lake must be cartoonishly bad. I remember when Marshalltown was a gritty but prosperous place with some impressive payrolls (Fisher Controls, Lennox, C&NW Shop, Kiowa, the Trowel, Dunham-Bush, etc), fairly good shopping/dining and even some pretensions to culture on the prairie.
Now I go around it. No habla Espanol.
btt
From Wikipedia:
Tyson Foods operates a large hog slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, and turkey processing plant in Storm Lake.
From 2010 census
The racial makeup of the city was
68.4% White, 4.4% African American,
0.4% Native American, 9.8% Asian, 0.9% Pacific Islander, 13.6% from other races, and 2.4% from two or more races.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 36.1% of the population.
Hispanic or Latino was 21.05 and White 79.68 % in 2000 census-huge change for 10 years..
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