“It’s not about parties,” said Marjorie Sturdy, “it’s about saving our democracy.”
Sturdy, a local Democratic Party activist, was speaking to a large crowd that had marched down Modesto’s J Street after a two-hour demonstration at Five Points intersection, about a quarter mile away.
Of the hundreds of people who showed up for the April 5 “Hands Off” protest in downtown Modesto, only two were elected officials. Aside from Waterford City Councilwoman Guadalupe “Lupita” Gutierrez, Modesto City Councilman and Vice Mayor Nick Bavaro was the only other regional leader present when protestors met on the plaza at 1010 Tenth Street for the noon rally…