Posted on 10/16/2008 11:18:01 AM PDT by goldstategop
With less than three weeks remaining before election day, the No on 8 campaign is getting desperate as they trail in the polls and in fundraising. As if violently attacking a Yes on 8 volunteer in Modesto on Sunday were not bad enough, No on 8 forces have been intimidating Yes on 8 volunteers and stealing yard signs.
ORANGE COUNTY
* “Caught in the act.” A Prop. 8 opponent from San Francisco was caught in the act when she ripped up a Yes on 8 sign right in front of the Irvine Republican Party campaign office on Sunday. Office workers made a citizen’s arrest. The woman was charged with misdemeanor vandalism and will appear in court. * On Saturday, several dozen campaign signs—including about a dozen Yes on 8 signs—were along Mouton Parkway near Crown Valley Parkway. On Sunday, the Yes on 8 signs were gone, but the other signs were still standing. * A Prop. 8 opponent from Mission Viejo called the Yes on 8 campaign threatening to remove any Yes on 8 sign he sees. * A pregnant woman was “flipped off” because she had a Yes on 8 bumper sticker on her car. * A Huntington Beach woman had a yard sign stolen on Monday night. * San Clemente, Laguna Niguel, and San Juan Capistrano volunteers report stolen Yes on 8 signs. Signs posted in the morning were missing by evening.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
San Fernando/Sylmar/Granada Hills
* About a dozen signs were stolen from front yards.
San Fernando
* A parish leader had a sign on his lawn and someone jumped the fence to his lawn and striped the sign with a knife.
Sylmar
* A volunteer who was distributing signs with her 11 year old son was verbally accosted by a woman in a car approaching the onramp for the 210 Freeway. * One sign that was left up had the word “Yes” crossed off and replaced with “No.”
Alhambra
* Yes on 8 signs were stripped from their metal frames in broad daylight in a several block area.
Whittier
* A car with a Yes on 8 bumper sticker was egged.
Valencia
* At least six Yes on 8 signs were stolen Saturday night within a few blocks of each other.
Torrance
* A bumper sticker was stolen from a car.
SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Chula Vista
* Yes on 8 bumper stickers have repeatedly been removed from a family’s vehicle.
El Cajon
* Yes on 8 signs have repeatedly been stolen from the same woman’s yard, mostly over the weekend. * Three yard signs were stolen from a woman’s lawn: two on Saturday night and one on Sunday. Additionally, there were eight Yes signs at the bottom of the hill where she lives which were replaced with fifteen No signs.
Imperial Beach
* A family observed a man come onto their property and remove a Yes on 8 sign from their yard. As he left, he also destroyed a Yes on 8 sign in a neighbor’s yard.
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
Concord
* Volunteers posted a handful of signs along a long fence surrounding a Prop. 8 supporter’s yard. A neighbor removed the signs, claiming she was exercising her freedom of speech in doing so.
San Ramon
* Danville resident Tom Laurie put up 17 Yes on 8 yard signs in San Ramon. They were all stolen.
SACRAMENTO
* About five Yes on 8 yard signs were stolen from the grounds of the Central Seventh Day Adventist Church. The church is contacting the police. * KCRA3 posted a report on its website Monday: “Dean Jenkins said a ‘Yes on Proposition 8’ sign was stolen from his front lawn. ‘We came home from Disneyland…and it was gone,’ Jenkins said….‘I think it’s a way of voicing how we feel about certain things. And a sign is taken away from your property…they’re taking away your voice.’” * A yard sign was stolen in the College Greens area of Sacramento.
SAN MATEO COUNTY
San Mateo
* About a dozen Yes on 8 signs were stolen from the grounds of St. Matthew parish. Other signs on parish property were destroyed: volunteers returned to find two signs ripped off their frames and the frames bent and a third sign had a gash cut down the middle. * Yes on 8 volunteers are being “flipped off,” including people leaving the church parking lot after Mass. * Expletives are being yelled from Prop. 8 opponents in passing cards. * Members of the clergy from two different parishes have been told that Prop. 8 opponents are watching them to report what they might say about Prop. 8.
San Bruno
* A Yes on 8 bumper sticker was stolen from a car.
SALINAS
* At Sacred Heart Catholic Church, someone stole all the volunteer sign-up postcards, so now the Yes on 8 campaign has no way of contacting those volunteers. Additionally, a Yes on 8 sign was bent and thrown in the trash.
YUBA CITY
* Eight Yes on 8 signs were stolen from neighboring properties.
VALLEJO
* Clusters of Yes on 8 signs have been disappearing.
MERCED
* A yard sign was stolen.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The Brown Shorts on the move.
Wait a minute.
Aren’t “Opponents of Gay Marriage” voting YES on 8?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The opponents have the best commercial. If the thing passes, Gavin Newsome should get 51% of the blame/credit. His voice and “Whether you like it or not” rant on the radio commercials will sway many undecideds.
I guess that’s proponents.
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Opponents Of Traditional Marriage Engage In Dirty Tricks
What I find hilarious is the lengths the homosexuals are going to kill Prop 8. Their commercials implore voters not to allow government intrusion in private lives! This coming from the government is never too big liberal left who will mandate that government schools teach this bilge to grade schoolers.
The Left considers obeying the law as something they don’t have to do. Just us little conservatives should do. And it is not going to get any better. Whether we like it or not!
“The door’s wide open! It’s gonna happen! Whether ya like it or not!”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I wonder how much the libs want government to avoid intruding into “private lives” when a church doesn’t want to allow its property to be rented for a gay wedding, or when a Christian employer doesn’t want to extend its health care benefits to the partners of gay employees.
Neoliberalism truly is a mental disorder.
I’ll be voting YES on 8, but I hope a day will come when another Proposition will come along barring state and local governments from using the word marriage to describe any government approved civil coupling. Marriage is a religious term and ceremony. As such, it should be reserved for religious institutions. Proposition 8 addresses CIVIL UNIONS, which are not, nor should ever be confused with a religious marriage.
Posted this to the Vallejo Times-Herald site:
Anyone who wants to can get married now... Just not to someone of the same gender. Since the institution of marriage was begun, thousands of years ago, it has been that same way. Those who prefer a sex partner of the same gender have options. But they want total acceptance for what is, to put it as politely as I can, a perversion. Homosexuality is NOT THE NORM, not for any species. Nor can it be, as the primary function of sex is for reproduction, not recreation, at least during the human child-bearing years. Homosexuality perverts that function and while it is never proper to harm someone for their sexual tastes, neither is it proper to grant them special rights not afforded to everyone else. Tolerance does not and should not equal mandated acceptance. Same-sex marriage is not and cannot be a societal NORM. Homosexual behavior is NOT a norm. We, as a society, can and should turn a blind eye toward behavior amongst and between consenting adults, but those consenting adults also have a responsibility to NOT rub the rest of our faces in their behavior.
I personally do not harbor ill will to the gay and lesbian crowd, nor will I unless, by their bleating and carrying on, FORCE me to take notice of their abnormal behaviors. Then, like most of normal society, I will react and it will not be to their liking. We, in California, have been down this road before and we clearly said that marriage is reserved SOLELY for one man and one woman, period. Not Adam and Steve or Sally and Eve or between Eve and the family dog or any other pairing. Nor between Steve and Sally and Eve or Eve and Steve and Adam. One man and one woman. Simple, time tested and workable. If you want some other form of relationship, you do have options. Just not marriage. And that’s as it should be.
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