Tressy Capps is more than just a candidate for Fontana City Council. She’s also an amateur videographer and flag-etiquette expert. But the unsolicited advice that she gave to one family – advice that she videotaped and posted on YouTube -- got her fired from her day job, has resulted in death threats and lots of the wrong kind of publicity for her city council campaign.
When Capps spotted a Mexican flag flying on the front lawn of a home in Ontario, she whipped out her video recorder and confronted someone inside the home.
“Hi. Is that a Mexican flag in your front yard?” Capps asks the homeowner, who is inside her home. “You know we live in America right? This is the United States. So, why are you flying a Mexican flag in your front yard?”
“Maybe you can move to Mexico if you want to fly your Mexican flag,” she says on the video, which she’s since taken down.
When her former employer Coldwell Banker got wind of the video, the banking giant promptly let Capps go from her position with the company.
In an interview with Fox News, Capps said she has been threatened ever since word of the video got out and that she’s frightened for her safety and may even have to move.
In that same interview, she defended her stance on banner flying, saying it was “just flag etiquette.”
Gotta wonder if, say, a improper Swedish flag-flying would have riled her up in quite the same way.