{"id":4492,"date":"2020-11-02T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T19:26:30","slug":"state-assemblywoman-lorena-gonzalez-putting-huge-money-behind-prop-16-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Putting Huge Money Behind Prop 16 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written by Nicholas Vetrisek<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, one of the most powerful politicians in California, has poured more than $200,000 into the campaign for Prop 16, contradicting the notion that the Prop 16 campaign is grassroots.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campaign for Prop 16 is not grassroots in any way, because almost everyone in the California Democrat establishment supports it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If passed, Prop 16 would allow legalized discrimination by the government. This initiative is being sold under the guise of helping &#8220;underprivileged&#8221; groups of people that have been &#8220;historically disadvantaged,&#8221; but it\u2019s just the government giving benefits based on race and gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today\u2019s GOTV rallies in San Jose, LA, Orange County, and San Diego. Vote vote vote! No on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Prop16?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Prop16<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uCB7yqmJQd\">pic.twitter.com\/uCB7yqmJQd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Men are Created Equal (@AllMenAreEqual2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllMenAreEqual2\/status\/1323109208460386304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The radical left has pushed this for decades in order to make up for economic and educational disparities between races, but this is the first time that it has a chance of passing. If Prop 16 passes, qualified applicants to universities and jobs will be overlooked in favor of applicants who have a more preferred race or gender.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assemblywoman Gonzalez\u2019s own reasoning for supporting Prop 16 proves how unneeded the bill is. &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have a daughter who\u2019s Black and Latina,&#8221; Gonzalez said. &#8220;I understand and see firsthand the structural racism that continues to exist in California and it\u2019s deeply personal to me.&#8221; As a state assemblywoman and Stanford graduate, she has been treated incredibly well by the system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, she continues to support the discriminatory Prop 16. This just shows that the support for this bill comes from the very top and the movement to pass it is not organic by any stretch.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Nicholas Vetrisek State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, one of the most powerful politicians in California, has poured more than $200,000 into the campaign for Prop 16, contradicting the notion that the Prop 16 campaign is grassroots.\u00a0The campaign for Prop 16 is not grassroots in any way, because almost everyone in the California Democrat establishment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Putting Huge Money Behind Prop 16 Campaign - 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