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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFailed GOP candidate changes name to ‘Cesar Chavez,’ switches parties to run in Hispanic district
Liars and cheaters. Break up the circular shooting squad and let's get busy.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/02/failed-gop-candidate-changes-name-to-cesar-chavez-switches-parties-to-run-in-hispanic-district/
Failed GOP candidate changes name to Cesar Chavez, switches parties to run in Hispanic district
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, June 2, 2014 14:59 EDT
A Republican who twice tried and twice failed to be elected has changed his name from Scott Fistler to Cesar Chavez, his party affiliation from GOP to Democrat, and just filed to run for Congress in a heavily Hispanic district.
Much like Dave Wilson, the white anti-LGBT activist in Houston, Texas who used stock images of African-Americans in his campaign literature to deceive low-information voters about his race, Chavez is trying to convince voters in Arizonas 7th Congressional District that he shares a common cultural and racial heritage with them.
His official campaign website is cluttered with images of excited people cheering for Chavez the majority of which come from news reports about former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Arizona Democratic Party chairman DJ Quinlan told the Capital Times that Chavez is trying to make a mockery of the system, or of Democrats, or of the Hispanic community.....more
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Failed GOP candidate changes name to ‘Cesar Chavez,’ switches parties to run in Hispanic district (Original Post)
Skidmore
Jun 2014
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Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)1. Hope voters aren't fooled by him.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Many here will argue that we should support him, 'cause he's a Democrat.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)3. Don't wanna be purists, ya know.
So what if he's a little to the right of the Professional Leftists that infest this site? He's a DEMOCRAT, by God, and I'll go to the wall for him!
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)6. My, that was constructive.
Shall we educate voters to the deception or are you happy with the Teabagger chokehold on Congress? How about them Koch boys?
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)4. Utter bunk..nt
City Lights
(25,171 posts)5. There is nothing beneath them.
They will do anything in an attempt to win. They disgust me. I hope voters in his district aren't fooled by this clown.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)7. Yeah, that is going to work - Mary Rose Wilcox (who is Hispanic) or Ruben Gallego will win the prima
moondust
(19,958 posts)8. Silly opportunist
who seems to understand just how disgustingly superficial electoral politics--American and otherwise--can be.
Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)9. What an utter douche.
Proof that some asshats will do anything to get elected.