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Lydia Gutierrez and Her Cowardly Campaign
My wife sometimes leaves for work around 2:30am, and returns home around 7:30am.
Yesterday, in that short amount of time (and basically in the still of the night) a coward came through our neighborhood with a blatant attempt to sabotage my personal No on Prop 8 campaign. You see, we are the only house in a neighborhood of mostly hetero couples who was brave enough to put a No on Prop 8 yard sign in our front yard. We are able to do this because we have earned the respect of many people in our community, and have been able to help them understand that we are average, everyday people just like them. There are many in the neighborhood who keep an eye out for us, and show us support whenever we need it. This is why I was shocked when my wife told me that on our own block someone had put up a YES on 8 yard sign!! I wondered who it was…
I found out that this sign was not put up in front of someones house.
It was on a patch of grass towards the corner of the block between two houses so that you couldn’t tell which house it belonged too. Problem is, we know both families in said houses and we know that they are against Prop 8. Since the sign was placed by a coward who had to come in the middle of the night to do some sketchy sign placement, we took the sign down and I proceeded to rip it up and toss it in the trash. (But not before I took pics!) The Yes on Prop 8 sign carried a discriminatory slogan “Marriage is between a man and a woman”; which was in sharp contrast to the slogan on the No on Prop 8 sign which says “Equality for all”. The Yes on 8 yard sign was blatant in naming the person endorsing them – Lydia Guiterrez for Senate. Her name was splashed across the top and the fine print on the bottom corner said “Paid for by Lydia Guiterrez”.
So I wanted to know – were these signs everywhere, or was this a calculated response to MY yard sign??
We drove all around the neighborhood and there was not one more sign to be found anywhere. Cowards. And now the ‘Yes on 8′ TV ads have started to run, and they are saying everyone is going to be forced to accept gay marriage, that it will be taught in schools, and that churches will have to close because they will lose their status. These ads are so ignorant and misleading – but you know what? At least they are standing up to speak up for what they believe in! Do you know what Lydia Guiterrez has to say about Prop 8? Absolutely NOTHING. I went to her website to see what misleading and derogatory information she was spreading on her site and the funny thing is that she doesn’t include ‘Yes on 8′ as part of her platform. So she puts her money into a campaign that she cant even claim on her site.
She says she is for education, health care, a green port which is funny to me because so are my wife and I.
She comes from a Longshore Family out of ILWU Local 13. SAME AS US. You know what their motto is? “An injury to one is an injury to all.” Well Lydia Gutierrez, I’m not feeling the solidarity from you on this one! Her website slogan is “fighting for quality of life” and that’s what gay marriage is all about. We are really not that different, she and I. She has pictures on her website in front of the Korean Bell in San Pedro… that’s where we take the kids to fly kites. She takes part in connecting with those who are working for the advancement of Latinos and women like herself, and I myself am a woman and a Latina. She’s an elementary school teacher who cares about education and so do I. As a matter of fact, my wife and I just spoke at a school board meeting in front of the District Heads and media last week, to defend our children’s teachers.
Yet, even though we are the same in certain ways, in other ways we are fundamentally different.
She says on her site that she is committed to the welfare of others and then turns around and pays for a campaign that would eliminate a fundamental right from a large group of people. Doesn’t she realize that if Prop 8 passes, it opens the door for others rights to be taken away from other groups of people like women and Latinos, children and laborers, disabled and the elderly? If we allow one form of discrimination we are also inviting others.
She talks about dignity and respect, and that is all we are asking for!
Prop 8 would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. Prop 8 would re-write our California Constitution to provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California—denying gays and lesbians the respect, dignity and responsibility that come with marriage. – No on Prop 8
Taking into consideration the cowardly sign placement, and lack of a Yes on 8 platform existence on her site, I wonder if Lydia Gutierrez even read the proposition.
I did, and it specifically focuses on eliminating rights from one group, effectively taking us back 50 years to a ‘separate but equal’ society.
Regardless of how you feel about marriage — for straight or gay and lesbian couples — it’s wrong to single out one group of Americans and prevent them from having access to the same rights and responsibilities as their fellow citizens. – No on Prop 8
So Lydia, when you are teaching the children at school, helping the orphans in Colombia, or reaching out to teens and the elderly, do you not help the ones you know are gay?
Do you tell one child they are great and the other they don’t deserve praise? Do you give one senior help to the bed and another you leave to fend for themselves? Do you give food to one orphan and not another?
Your answer should be NO just like you should vote NO on Prop 8.
And if your answer to any of those questions is a yes, a better question for you might then be “how the hell do you sleep at night with karma like that?”
Julie Phineas is a work at home mom of 2 who lives in Southern California. You can find out more about her online by visiting her website at www.juliephineas.com.
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13 Responses to Lydia Gutierrez and Her Cowardly Campaign
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A Voter for Equality
May 2, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Dear Ms. Gutierrez,
I’ve been conducting research to cast my vote. I read articles about you on your website and other sites and then read articles on Svonkin.
At first, your links to smear articles on Svonkin, whether legit or not, had me swaying your way. Then when I read that you supported Prop 8 and are against gay marriage, I no longer in good conscience can cast my vote for you.
I am a straight male in a happy relationship, and I believe no one has the right to take away the rights of another. Outlawing gay marriage is discriminatory, just like blacks and other races were discriminated against before. How dare you think you can decide who can and can’t marry!!!!! Your pompous attitude is shown on your website by engaging in a nasty mudslinging campaign by posting links to articles on your opponent, where as he does not badmouth you on his site, showing you only think you can win by tarnishing your opponents reputation rather than on the issues.
If I am wrong in my research on where you stand, please set me straight. If not, I will be casting my vote on my mail-in ballot tomorrow for Svonkin, and swaying my friends and family to do the same.
Thank you.
Best,
A Voter for Equality
Sal Ignab
April 27, 2011 at 10:13 am
Lydia Gutierrez is in a runoff election this May 17, 2011, for the LA Community College Member of the Board of Trustees. It’s a low-turnout election. Can I count on you to get out and vote for Scott Svonkin – former Chief of Staff for Paul Koretz – and keep Ms. Gutierrez out of public office?
Autumn
June 8, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Found this post late but glad I did! I’m looking up candidates for CA Superintendent of Public Education and now I know who NOT to vote for!
jorge riley
December 13, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Isn’t it amazing that liberals preach of tolerance till there is something they don’t support. Sad and pathetic that queers hear the principals of moral people, and cry out its not fair. Well marriage is between a man and a woman. Natural law depicts this quite clearly when men and women mate they create life, when queers do what they do they get AIDS. Undercover brothers pass it on to there poor unsuspecting wives and they all die and Homosexuals say look straight people die of AIDS too. We already won this war and if you try this again I promise all of you bleeding ulcers when I am done with my campaign to preserve Natural Law and decency in California, So help me God!
Sei
December 13, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Jorge,
You might want to actually do some research about what animals- that is “natural law” stuff you talk about- get up to. There are 500 species of animal with absolute proof of homosexual coupling, with another 1000 with documented proof of homosexual mating. That is, there are five hundred animals where same-sex couples form long term bonds, and another thousand where they have sexual relations with members of the same sex.
Before talking about “natural law” you had better learn what natural law really is.
truth speaker
April 16, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Jorge doesn’t know much about anything, he’s just a hipocrite. He himself used to go to gay bars/clubs, and has had threesomes with women. He preaches about family, and pro life. Yet he has 6 children with 6 mothers. He doesn’t support any of his children financially. He’d rather spend his money on drinking and getting high. He has even had a child taken away by CPS because it came up positive with drugs in it’s system. How many of these childrens lives is he in? Any? He is in only the lives of two of them. He is helping persons run for governor, but yet they don’t bother to do a back ground check on him. The don’t he that he has felony’s, drug priors, thousands in back child support, and yet they still want him to help. Are those the type of people we want runing our government? Well that’s what we are giving them!
~Julie Phineas~
November 16, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Just because you didnt see it that means “everyone knows”?? Please spare us your mis-information… I have pictures of people putting up No on 8 signs during the day. Trust me I am not bitter just putting the haters on blast, sorry you can’t handle it. Don’t make this personal honey, everyone who knows me knows my heart is strong! This is about Lydia’s cowardly campaign and you haven’t told us why it’s not.
Anonymous
November 15, 2008 at 8:23 pm
How silly can a person be. Everyone knows that all the “No” on Prop. 8s were put up at night, we all woke up and there they were.
I never saw one person put up a sign during the whole campaign season during the day.
The rethoric only weakens the argument. You need to leave the bitterness behind, it weakens the heart. You are worth having around.
~Julie Phineas~
November 15, 2008 at 2:32 am
“This Kind of Talk”… you mean the TRUTH??? She is only respected because she doesn’t disclose her true agenda. Even the ILWU endorsed NO on 8… look at her website! I am from the inner city and can respect her as a Hispanic Woman but not her cowardly campaign.
Anonymous
November 15, 2008 at 12:44 am
She is respected in Compton and many other parts of the inner city. This kind of talk only makes her more respected in these communities. You want to give her strength keep this up.
Queers United
October 1, 2008 at 1:57 pm
it looks beautiful torn up
~Julie Phineas~
September 30, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Very good point Selecia! I wouldn’t have been so mad if it had actually been in somebody’s yard… I can respect other people’s views, but I have a strong distaste for cowards and injustice.
Selecia Jones- JAX FL
September 30, 2008 at 7:01 am
I doubt Mz. Gutierrez even knows or cares about the placement of her signs. The fact that it appeared in the middle of the night tells alot about the one who placed it there. You may think that your neighbors are understanding loving folks but the fact that they did not take down the sign tells all.
Few people are willing to take a stand for equality.