Should W. be compared to Cesar Chavez with $3.35 Texas farm worker minimum wage?
August 3, 2000-With George P. Bush the Texas governor’s half-Latino nephew set to address the Republican National Convention this evening, Cesar Chavez’s successor as United Farm Workers president questioned whether the GOP presidential candidate should be compared with the legendary farm labor leader. At a rally welcoming George W. Bush to Philadelphia on Wednesday, George P. Bush “likened the soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee to Cesar Chavez,” the Los Angeles Times reported. UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez, who is also Chavez’s son-in-law, issued the following statement from the union’s Keene, Calif. headquarters. “The Chavez family and the United Farm Workers welcome George P. Bush’s sentiments about how his mother instilled in him the values of Cesar Chavez when he was growing up. Cesar’s messages about nonviolence, self-sacrifice and social justice certainly transcend partisan politics. “He is rightly proud of his ethnic heritage and is correct in seeking leaders who wi
