Posted on 10/23/2020 11:30:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Georgette Gomez, president of the San Diego City Council, was born and raised in the city she now serves, just 15 miles from the Mexican border that her parents, Eusebia and Miguel Ángel Gomez, crossed without documents in 1973. Her parents worked multiple jobs to make ends meet and instilled in their daughter a dual sense of industriousness and hope.
“I don't take that for granted that they left their own country, their own language, their culture, their family, just to create a better path for us, and when they came here it wasn't easy,” said Gomez, 43, the youngest of three children. “This was not a welcoming country to them and still isn't to immigrants.”
Gomez, a former community organizer for an environmental justice group, is also a champion for environmental protections. As city council president, she helped pass a policy that aims to move San Diego to 100 percent renewables by 2035.
Gomez, who said she is queer, will be the first openly LGBTQ Latina in Congress if elected. She is part of a rainbow wave of at least 574 LGBTQ candidates who will be on the ballot next month, according to a new report by the LGBTQ Victory Fund, a group that trains, supports and advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer candidates. As women, minorities, and LGBTQ candidates fill the Democratic Party’s ranks, Gomez said there is an “opportunity to have a greater evolution in the party.”
"We need to ensure that we're electing more progressives that are rooted in community, that understand and have lived through the issues that a majority of our constituents are living through," she said. "That's the way that you shape policies. ... Our party also needs to understand and reflect those needs."
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Egads, my eyes! I’m sorry I clicked on the link.
Georgette Gomez could make history as the first queer Latina in Congress
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Remember when people used to make history by inventing things, or going to the moon?
This is so deeply moving...I need a take a break and cry for joy...
Not!
I don’t care what anyone does to get their orgasms as long as everyone is of age, and willing. So, I am more concerned with her tax ideas and ideas on the defense budget.
I don’t need to know who you sleep with!
Well....isn’t that special.
Yeah, but is she Trans?
when I was younger I thought I was a lesbian trapped in a man’s body ...
She forgot in include a W2 salary over over $100,000 on her tax returns and financial disclosure forms. The $100,000 was for a no show union job that she had in addition to her San Diego city council salary. She won’t win. Her opponent is another Democrat whose grandfather founded Qualcomm.
thanks for the heads up.....click avoided
Dang, coulda fooled me.
when I was younger I thought I was a lesbian trapped in a man’s body ...”
this reminds me of that exchange in The Office where Kevin says he could date a lesbian or something like that....and Oscar says, “heave you ever seen a real lesbian?”
lololol
Yes, but who will be the first handicapped, Jewish, queer, Latina in congress?
A “threefer.”
“This was not a welcoming country to them and still isn’t to immigrants.”
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I have been in situations in my own country in which I have been the only native-born American and the only person who spoke English as a first language, if at all. I don’t know how much more “welcoming” we could become, unless we erase the borders and do away with any immigration law. This one seems to have done alright here, even though she is a triple “minority.” I would say America has been bera, bera good to her.
Is the eye-bleach a picture of her when she was younger?
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