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Candidate Spotlight Interview with The Vindicator newspaper.

Interview with Charles Kuffner of Off the Kuff, Texas’ longest running progressive political blog.

“I’ve grown up in the district. I am an immigrant. My family is also made of all immigrants from Mexico. We came to this country when I was a child. They were laboring, farm workers work to the bone. I am the American dream, and we have every right to have this American dream.” - Leticia Gutierrez

Baytown Sun

"Gutierrez took to the microphone and announced in Spanish, “I’m an immigrant, too. I know you’re scared, I know it’s difficult,” Gutierrez said she told the attendees. “But if you don’t sign up to speak, the people here will genuinely think you’re in favor of this permit.”"

Prism

"Watch Leticia Gutierrez... as she shares powerful insights on the fight for cleaner air in our city. Tune in to learn how air quality impacts our health and what we can do to make a difference."

VIVA! Magazine

“Community that resides near the port is not benefiting, really, from the economic boom of this increased goods movement traffic. On the contrary, we're being bombarded by the excessive air pollution, the excessive amount of dumping,” Gutierrez said.

Houston Chronicle

"Never underestimate the power and pull of a mother. Leticia Gutierrez has been called an environmental justice warrior for Earth. The University of St. Thomas-Houston alumna, who graduated in Finance and had an initial career in the banking industry, became an effective champion for environmental justice."

University of St. Thomas

"Realizing that the health issues befalling her son were mainly due to the zip code in which Gutierrez and her extended family live, one flooded with Port of Houston industries known for their penchant for polluting the air, land, and water. She became a crusader for environmental justice."

Defender Network

"A civil rights complaint prompted the state’s environmental agency to guarantee interpretation and translation services at public meetings for people who don’t speak English. But the rollout has been plagued by confusing procedures and little clarity on how interpreters will be selected."

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"Leticia Gutierrez [...] was on the English line and began to give comments in Spanish."

Kera

"Leticia Gutierrez [...] said concrete plants often end up built in the city’s minority neighborhoods because developers believe people there are less likely to object.

Language barriers deter some residents from participating in public hearings. Only recently have state authorities begun publishing more information in Spanish and Vietnamese, Ms. Gutierrez said."

New York Times

"[...] Leticia [Gutierrez] spoke at City Council's public comment session to warn council members about the project's environmental risk.

"Studies have also found a close link between exposure to fine particulates and premature death from heart and lung disease, including lung cancer," [Gutierrez] said."

Houston Public Media

"We're sick and tired of being sick and tired of this being the norm," Leticia [Gutierrez] [...], member of the coalition, said at a press conference..."

Houston Public Media

"The hearing was held by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality which wanted to know what the public thought about one particular plant, Pasadena Refining System owned by Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil..."

The refinery needs a new pollution permit which the state must approve. Leticia [Gutierrez] told us she and her two school aged kids live six miles from the plant."

Houston Public Media