(Graphic: Californians Against Hate)
Californians Against Hate has announced a new boycott. Katharine Garff, the wife CEO and Board Chairman Robert Garff contributed $100,000 to the Yes on 8 campaign. According to Californians Against Hate: “… this huge contribution to take away marriage rights in California by the Garff family warrants a full boycott. The contribution was given very late — on October 29, 2008 — and was disclosed in the recently released campaign report.”
From Californians Against Hate:
Mrs. Katharine Garff, wife of Ken Garff Automotive Group Chairman of the Board and CEO Robert Heiner Garff, gave $100,000.00 to the California’s Yes on Proposition 8 campaign to take away the rights of gays and lesbians. In the past 9 years, Katharine Garff had only given $3,000 in political contributions, all to U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch. Now all of a sudden she becomes one of the largest contributors to Prop. 8 in the country.
The Garff family owns dozens of car dealerships in 4 states — Utah, California, Texas and Iowa. Please support this important Boycott and support equality for all.
Robert Garff was quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune on Feb. 10, 2009: “We do believe in the proposition of marriage as being between a man and a female,” he said. “But we reserve the rights of others to believe and act as they wish. … We want our friends who are gay to know that we respect them.”
If he and his wife are “friends of the gay community” after giving $100,000.00 to take away the rights of millions of Californians and write discrimination into the Constitution, then we would hate to see what our enemies would do.
The Ken Garff Automotive Group is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah in the Ken Garff building, 405 S. Main St. Their car dealers include Honda, Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Saab, Volvo, Jaguar, Mitsubishi, Chrysler, Dodge, GMC, Pontiac, Nissan, Ford, Buick, Jeep, Toyota, Scion and Hyundai located in Utah, California, Texas and Iowa.
Effective Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Californians Against Hate is calling for a Boycott of Ken Garff Automotive Group’s Car Dealers.
Please support this important boycott and don’t buy or lease your next car from any of the Ken Garff Automotive Dealers listed below. We will continue to update this list. Thank you very much for your support!
Californians Against Hate has launched three boycotts of major Yes on Prop 8 funders. The first was against the hotels owned by Doug Manchester (Manchester Grand Hyatt and the Grand del Mar Hotels) both in San Diego, CA) who gave $125,000 to Yes on 8. The next boycott was called against Bolthouse Farms of Bakersfield, CA whose founder gave $100,000 to Prop 8, but was settled 3 weeks later. And the most recent boycott began on November 19, 2008 against A-1 Self Storage, whose owner Terry Caster and his family gave $693,000 to Yes on 8.
Comments
5 Comments so far. Comments are closed.To vote in free conscious or donate money to a cause that one believes in; does not translate to being a discriminator. It does not mean that you will be fired from your job if you are gay. It does not mean that people have the right to harass you if you are gay. It simply means that through a vote, a decision to alter the definition of marriage as exercised for mileniums of time should be amended. People on both sides of this issue spent money and voted. However, you only see one side of the aisle really over stepping bounds. Using scare tactics of posting personal information and inviting people to harass donors is closer to being a hurtful discriminator.
matt
what would you discriminatory? this is what the dictionary says: treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
I will tell you what this whole affair has been valuable for, to see the sincere and overwhelming support for marriage equality. And to see who the discriminators are, only a self-loathing person would support anyone who discriminates against them.
What the homobigots haven’t figured out…not shopping with you costs us NOTHING.
Your yes on prop 8 supporters can’t spend enough to off set ALL the companies we BOYCOTT…you lose. Boycotting isn’t harrassment, it’s just not PAYING for our own discrimination.
Homobigots? what part of that word is “against hate”.
Separation of Church and state has been the basis for the US living constitution for over two hundred years.
Lets not muddy the waters here; lets try to accomplish having the right to dictate who our fringe benefits and insurance programs cover; fight for that. As for legal definition of the word Marriage, that isnt and shouldnt be up to the court to decide.
You feel dejected and rejected then get the governement to not recognize Marriage in any form; leave that to the Churches and Synagogues; which is where it was meant to be.
Everyone should be able to have health insurance for the + one in their life regardless of who it is, should be able to leave their pension or social security to the + one in their life regardless of sexual orientation. That is what we should all be fighting for.
The Grand Del Mar DOES Discriminate! Three friends and I check in to the San Diego resort two weeks ago and found people were giving us the cold shoulder for being a same sex couple. We didn’t realize it till our straight friends pointed it out. The Front Desk checked us into a cruddy room that was on the bottom floor, dark with no view and far from everything. Our friends who had checked in 5 minutes behind us were given a great room with a view near the lobby. When I went back to the desk to ask if we could move closer the staff person said that was all they had and we could not move. The place was empty so I asked the doorman how full they were, he said, they were about 13% full. I asked to speak to a manager and was told to come back twice. We were able to finally speak to a supervisor and they said that there would be a fee to move and he had a lot of attitude. I asked why they would not be a little more accommodating? He then said “you” people don’t like our hotel anyways so that was the best they would do. The only good thing was that we were only there for one night. If I had only known that this hotels profits were spent on the Yes on 8 initiative I would have had our group stay else ware and may have avoided a night of embarrassment.