The tenant group rallying to counter landlord Breier-Scheetz’s $20,000 donation to defeat the R74 marriage equality referendum will hold a series of parties this Saturday in an attempt to raise an equal — or greater — amount to donate in support of the cause:
Party to Raise $20,000 for Marriage Equality
Saturday, September 22, 20123:00pm until 7:00pm
Breier-Scheetz tenants are holding a coordinated event to match or surpass the donation Capitol Hill landlords Breier-Scheetz Properties gave to the anti-marriage-equality campaign. Join us to raise $20,000 and send a message – Capitol Hill supports marriage equality.
There will be parties at:
- The Corinthian Apartments, 1705 Summit Ave
- The New McDermott Apartments, 1514 Bellevue Ave
- The Granada Apartments, 1736 Belmont Ave
If you cannot make it to the party, but want to donate to the cause, please contribute online at: https://secure.qgiv.com/hobnob/team/11960/
As of early Monday afternoon, the online portion of the giving campaign was at 10% of its $20,000 goal. CHS has donated $200 to support the party’s fundraiser.
CHS has still not heard from owner and Capitol Hill resident Frederick Scheetz or Breier-Scheetz Properties about the situation with its tenants and its decision to donate to a group working to defeat R74 this November.
The effort to counter the donation comes at a time when the marriage equality cause seems well on the way to victory making local fundraising, perhaps, as much about a strong show of support as political victory. Statewide, WA United for Marriage has received millions more in donations from supporters of approving marriage equality in Washington with donations passing the $7.5 million mark. Meanwhile, the Breier-Scheetz-supported Preserve Marriage WA group has received just under $550,000. The latest SurveyUSA poll shows R74 leading 56-38 in the state.
$200 is very generous, thanks CHS for supporting a great cause!
There had been posters up at the corinthian throughout the week that have now been torn down by management. There’s a battle a-brewin’.
So I did it via this site. I sent an email to some close friends, and I hope that they’ll donate via this as well. Don’t get mad get even. Of course, Ivana Trump said it best: “Don’t get mad, get everything”.
This is my favorite story of the year! Stick it to the Man!
They are over $3000. I hope as a community we all come together to support this effort.
I wonder if there will be any long term negative business effects for this business?
If I were a tenant in one of these buildings, I would make sure that this had a negative effect on management.
When I was a renter, I usually felt a partnership with landlords – they treated me well, and I treated their property as if it was mine. On the other hand, for those few landlords who were difficult and adversarial I had far less regard for the property. A tenant can insist on all legal rights and can treat the property as poorly as is legal. I would find a way to make myself an expensive tenant without breaking the law.
Thanks for the support and the donation. The Hill is poised to keep fighting and major help to win this election – Approve R-74.
And landlords can’t stop window posters in buildings. More on that a bit later.
Double it!!
Does Breier-Scheetz not have the right to donate to an organization he well pleases without a tremendous outcry against him? Doesn’t it just boil down to a difference in opinion, and shouldn’t we respect that as mature adults instead of making a huge fit?
Freedom of Speech? The landlord allows all sorts of parties and events to be held in the common areas of their properties, but they tried to disallow a very small, meager pro-equality fundraiser. *That* sounds more like trying to infringe on someone’s freedom of speech. When the landlord realized that its discrimination was illegal here, its reaction to donate $20,000 to the opposition sounds more like “having a fit”, as you say.
This story is about one group of people (the tenants) exercising their freedom of speech (they’re making a statement by collecting donations) in response to the landlord exercising his freedom of speech (the donation he made). It is a difference of opinion, and both sides appear to be handling it as adults.
Sure, he has the right to make the donation and did.
However, there is no freedom from an “outcry”. As long as the outcry isn’t violent or infringes on others’ rights, I think it’s just fine. This counter-fundraiser is probably the most mature and responsible response I can think of.
Freedom of speech includes people’s right to respond with their own speech!
any updates on Granada’s courtyard being locked on Sept. 17 to prevent that fundraiser????
The gate is unlocked and the party is underway. Swing by and donate!
What he does as an individual is us to him. When his COMPANY donates money, and just after that people renting from that company get a sizeable rent increase, they could be forgiven for thinking they’ve just involuntarily funded bigotry. People – themselves or through their companies – can fund whatever they like, but others, especially clients or customers, also have the right to protest their actions or, in the case of retail companies, choose not to buy from or deal with that company again.