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SACRAMENTO, October 15 /Christian Newswire/ -- With less than three weeks remaining before election day, the No on 8 campaign is getting desperate as they trail in the polls and in fundraising. As if violently attacking a Yes on 8 volunteer in Modesto on Sunday were not bad enough, No on 8 forces have been intimidating Yes on 8 volunteers and stealing yard signs.

ORANGE COUNTY
• "Caught in the act." A Prop. 8 opponent from San Francisco was caught in the act when she ripped up a Yes on 8 sign right in front of the Irvine Republican Party campaign office on Sunday. Office workers made a citizen's arrest. The woman was charged with misdemeanor vandalism and will appear in court.

• On Saturday, several dozen campaign signs-including about a dozen Yes on 8 signs-were along Mouton Parkway near Crown Valley Parkway. On Sunday, the Yes on 8 signs were gone, but the other signs were still standing.

• A Prop. 8 opponent from Mission Viejo called the Yes on 8 campaign threatening to remove any Yes on 8 sign he sees.

• A pregnant woman was "flipped off" because she had a Yes on 8 bumper sticker on her car.

• A Huntington Beach woman had a yard sign stolen on Monday night.

• San Clemente, Laguna Niguel, and San Juan Capistrano volunteers report stolen Yes on 8 signs. Signs posted in the morning were missing by evening.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY
San Fernando/Sylmar/Granada Hills
• About a dozen signs were stolen from front yards.

San Fernando
• A parish leader had a sign on his lawn and someone jumped the fence to his lawn and striped the sign with a knife.

Sylmar
• A volunteer who was distributing signs with her 11 year old son was verbally accosted by a woman in a car approaching the onramp for the 210 Freeway.

• One sign that was left up had the word "Yes" crossed off and replaced with "No."

Alhambra
• Yes on 8 signs were stripped from their metal frames in broad daylight in a several block area.

Whittier
• A car with a Yes on 8 bumper sticker was egged.

Valencia
• At least six Yes on 8 signs were stolen Saturday night within a few blocks of each other.

Torrance
• A bumper sticker was stolen from a car.

SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Chula Vista
• Yes on 8 bumper stickers have repeatedly been removed from a family's vehicle.

El Cajon
• Yes on 8 signs have repeatedly been stolen from the same woman's yard, mostly over the weekend.

• Three yard signs were stolen from a woman’s lawn: two on Saturday night and one on Sunday. Additionally, there were eight Yes signs at the bottom of the hill where she lives which were replaced with fifteen No signs.

Imperial Beach
• A family observed a man come onto their property and remove a Yes on 8 sign from their yard. As he left, he also destroyed a Yes on 8 sign in a neighbor's yard.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
Concord
• Volunteers posted a handful of signs along a long fence surrounding a Prop. 8 supporter's yard. A neighbor removed the signs, claiming she was exercising her freedom of speech in doing so.

San Ramon
• Danville resident Tom Laurie put up 17 Yes on 8 yard signs in San Ramon. They were all stolen.

SACRAMENTO
• About five Yes on 8 yard signs were stolen from the grounds of the Central Seventh Day Adventist Church. The church is contacting the police.

• KCRA3 posted a report on its website Monday: "Dean Jenkins said a 'Yes on Proposition 8' sign was stolen from his front lawn. 'We came home from Disneyland...and it was gone,' Jenkins said....'I think it's a way of voicing how we feel about certain things. And a sign is taken away from your property...they're taking away your voice.'"

• A yard sign was stolen in the College Greens area of Sacramento.


SAN MATEO COUNTY
San Mateo
• About a dozen Yes on 8 signs were stolen from the grounds of St. Matthew parish. Other signs on parish property were destroyed: volunteers returned to find two signs ripped off their frames and the frames bent and a third sign had a gash cut down the middle.

• Yes on 8 volunteers are being "flipped off," including people leaving the church parking lot after Mass.

• Expletives are being yelled from Prop. 8 opponents in passing cards.

• Members of the clergy from two different parishes have been told that Prop. 8 opponents are watching them to report what they might say about Prop. 8.

San Bruno
• A Yes on 8 bumper sticker was stolen from a car.

SALINAS
• At Sacred Heart Catholic Church, someone stole all the volunteer sign-up postcards, so now the Yes on 8 campaign has no way of contacting those volunteers. Additionally, a Yes on 8 sign was bent and thrown in the trash.

YUBA CITY
• Eight Yes on 8 signs were stolen from neighboring properties.

VALLEJO
• Clusters of Yes on 8 signs have been disappearing.

MERCED
• A yard sign was stolen.