Posted on 11/18/2008 1:49:11 PM PST by Fiji Hill
News is spreading of a boycott of El Coyote after discovering that their manager, Marjorie Chrisofferson donated to the Yes on 8 campaign. The donation was discovered after reading through the L.A. Times' Prop 8. contributions database. Please help to support equal rights for all by not supporting businesses that support hate and inequality. For more information on El Coyote, read here.
The El Coyote Cafe is at 7312 W. Beverly Blvd., near La Brea Blvd., and is one of hte best Mexican restaurants in LA. All Freepers in LA who like Mexican food ought to go over there and bust the boycott.
All of the sudden I really want some enchiladas and an ice cold Pacifico. :)
Equal rights for all but those who don’t think like you do.
Ah, tacos!
Now if Spago had donated...Oh the confusion and hear-break!
Heart-break, that is...
Uh, no. The food is pretty much mediocre institutional old-school Mexican, and there are lots of better places around to find that. (El Cholo comes to mind.) What El Coyote has to offer is cheap, strong margaritas. That's why it's popular.
Trivia note: El Coyote is where Sharon Tate and her friends had dinner before going home to be murdered by the Manson tribe.
I love Mexican food. I have been to El Coyote, its good and I will go back.
El Coyote has FOOD???? ;) The maggies are yummy.....
Defamer is all over this:
http://defamer.com/5084882/no-on-8-lunch-at-el-coyote-even-worse-than-their-fajita-plate
We’d previously teased today’s El Coyote throwdown between “Yes on 8”-donating manager Marjorie Chrisoffersen and a crowd of gays hungry not for quesadillas but for vengeance; now, word has come out about the confrontation, and it sounds like things went not so well. The blog Shut Up! I Know! has a first-person account:
A floor manager stood in the middle of the back room where the community conference and stated that “El Coyote DOES NOT share the same views as Marjorie.” He stated that 89 families were going to be affected by this boycott and one of the community members screamed out “18,000 families already HAVE been affected!”
...Marjorie walked out with (her two daughters?) on arm and spoke visibly shaken and full of remorse from a prepared statement.
...A gentleman by the same of Sam, who said he was an ex-member of the Mormon Church, asked if she was willing to donate to NO on 8.
She started crying.
A representative of the restaurant stepped in and stated that El Coyote was going to donate to Lambda Legal and the Gay and Lesbian Center and Sam said, I asked HER what SHE was going to do.
Marjorie said: “I will not.”
At which point the place went insane.
One of the (daughters?) started yelling at everyone telling them (and I quote) “The church just tells you when to donate, it doesn’t tell you how to vote. It very, very rarely tells you how to vote.” (SHUT UP! I KNOW! X2) “Marjorie is your friend-” at which point someone prominently yelled: “SHE IS NOT MY FRIEND. FRIENDS DON’T HELP TAKE THE RIGHTS AWAY OF OTHER FRIENDS AND THEN BLAME IT ON THEIR CHURCH!”
Once the room calmed down, Marjorie was asked again if SHE would do anything to counteract what she had done and she said: “No.” at which point someone yelled “This is bullshit” and another yelled “BOYCOTT EL COYOTE” and Marjorie was swiftly escorted out the back entrance as people dispersed saying “She just made this even worse” and a man started walking through the restaurant telling customers that “MARJORIE VOTED YES ON PROP 8 AND YOUR MONEY IS DOING THE SAME THING BY HER GIVING HER EARNINGS TO THE MORMON CHURCH!”
Box Turtle Bulletin backs up the account and adds anecdotal evidence that business at El Coyote already seems to have taken a hit: namely, you can find parking there now! Suddenly, we’re boycott happy... could someone please launch a protest of Koreatown? Last time, we had to drive around for fifteen minutes to find a space!
Sounds like a nice suit for intentional interference with business relations. Give ‘em both barrels.
Colonel, USAFR
I last ate at El Coyote in 2006 and found their food to be quite good, although it is, indeed, old-school Mexican. However, the food at El Tepeyac or Ciro's in Boyle Heights is better.
The El Cholo in La Habra, with which I am most familiar, serves good cousine, although it is somewhat bland, perhaps so as to conform to the tastes of the gabachos from the surrounding community that comprise most of its customers. I've been eating there occasionally since shortly after it opened in 1966.
Another Los Angeles Mexican eatery that I remember as having good food is Lucy's El Adobe, where Governor Moonbeam used to hang out. When I went there, Democratic Party fliers were available in the lobby. I asked if this restaurant was related to the El Adobe in San Juan Capistrano--President Nixon's favorite Mexican eatery--and the lady at the cash register rather curtly told me, "no."
The food is OK; margaritas are quite yummy. I’m going to start going once every week or so to support them...SSZ
Funny you should mention the El Adobe in Capistrano--I just ate there a couple of months ago, stopping for a late lunch on the way to San Diego. It's okay. Great antique mall across the street, though.
And since I am one of those gabachos you refer to...one who frequently had the menudo-in-a-pail-on-Saturday-morning duties as a kid; what pet name should we use for you?
Maybe you meant heartburn.
Gee, haven’t you guys been to Chipotle yet?
It’s the best!!
This kinda makes it easier to avoid gays, doesn’t it?
On the other hand, I’ll see if I can have one of their famous margaritas, even though I try and stick to beer mostly. :)
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