That Time the Co-Founder of United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez Stumped for Hillary

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Feb 19, 2008 - Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, has been stumping for Hillary



LAREDO - Hillary Clinton's ties with the Latino community date back 35 years ago, while Barack Obama's date back six months ago, said Dolores Huerta and Laredo's political and community leaders at a meet and greet breakfast Sunday.

“She's not the 'Johnny Come Lately',” said Huerta (75), co-founder of the United Farm Workers union with César Chávez.

“When she was in her 20s, she was registering voters down in the Valley, right in the poorest parts of the United States of America for Latinos to live. Hillary was knocking on doors to register Latinos to vote.”

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Hillary Clinton tested in Texas, where it all began in '72


Dolores Huerta signing up farm workers

AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) -- Garry Mauro will never forget that night in 1972 when he says Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham (then unmarried) ignored the post-election party surrounding them, instead preferring to huddle in a corner and talk about changing the future...

Mauro and the Clintons cut their political teeth in Texas during the 1972 election, knocking on doors and registering people -- many of them minorities -- to vote.

Texas election workers often looked with suspicion at the so-called "out-of-staters." "Most of them had a funny accent and really didn't know how to talk to people," Mauro said. "That was not the case with Hillary Clinton. She always established a rapport with the local officials she was working with -- even the ones that started out being aggressively negative. And she would always seem to move the ball forward."

In general, said Mauro, a national election campaign is grueling. "Most people only have a few good elections in them," said Mauro. "It's really hard work. It's grunt work." For that reason, he said, "That's a pretty remarkable person to keep that enthusiasm and drive and continue to have that grit 30 years later."

read: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/29/texas.clinton.memories/#cnnSTCText


5/11/2015 - Dolores Huerta Prefers Woman to Latino Republican in White House (Co-founder of United Farm Workers)



MIAMI – Union leader Dolores Huerta (age 85) prefers a woman in the White House in 2016, saying that “there’s a lot at stake for Latinos” if one of the current Republican hopefuls wins the election, even if he has “a Latino name or speaks Spanish.”

“Some of those candidates who are Latinos in reality don’t represent the values of the Latino community, who for the most part are working people. They are against their aspirations,” she said.

Huerta, who once again says that she will support Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, said that the current Republican candidates Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and even former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is married to a Mexican and has adopted the most conciliatory policy among the Republicans on immigration reform, are “wrong.”

Huerta, the founder, along with Cesar Chavez, of the United Farm workers, recalled her trips with Clinton during the 2008 Democratic primaries in Florida, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.

“She is the most qualified and she had very big support from the Latino community,” said the activist who, however, added that “time has passed” and Clinton must get herself known among younger voters.

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Hillary Clinton Has Deep History With Latinos


Hillary Clinton and United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez during a rally in Salinas, California, on Jan. 22, 2008

In 1972, when a young Hillary and Bill Clinton were working the ill-fated George McGovern campaign, she worked closely with well-respected union leader, Franklin Garcia, who took her under his wing as she helped register Latino voters in south Texas and along the Rio Grande Valley.

“Hispanics in South Texas were,” she wrote in her 2003 memoir Living History, “understandably, wary of a blond girl from Chicago who didn’t speak a word of Spanish.” But Garcia “took me places I could never have gone alone and vouched for me to Mexican Americans who worried I might be from the immigration service or some other government agency.” Garcia drove her and Bill across the border to Matamoros, a dive that had only a “decent mariachi band,” she wrote, but where she indulged in barbecued cabrito, or goat.

Garry Mauro, one of her first contacts in Texas, told the San Antonio Express in 2008 that back then she had a “cultural affinity with Hispanics,” asking questions and listening to their concerns, a dynamic that would be on display again, more than three decades later in Nevada, as she tried to woo an influential Latino activist.

“The way my dad explained it, she was somebody you could talk to,” Escobedo Jr. said. “She spoke from the heart and asked about what the Hispanic community was going through and what had to be done. My dad was taken aback by Hillary, by how she was able to communicate and listen and how she wanted to help Hispanics.”

read: http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/hillary-clinton-has-deep-history-with-latinos-and-theres-not#.akqGnvY4Y


One in a series of posts highlighting candidate parity on issues particular to the Latino community:

That Time Bernie Fought for Farm Worker Rights in Immokalee
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251437633#post3

That Time Martin O'Malley Stood Up For Border Kids When It Mattered
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251437721