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Posted on 08/09/2002 3:14:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:41:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Gov. Gray Davis was an eyewitness to one of the most dramatic and historic episodes ever seen in the California Capitol.
There had been decades of sometimes violent strife in California's agricultural fields as the United Farm Workers union, under charismatic leader Cesar Chavez, tried to organize low-paid workers. For those involved, the UFW's struggle -- with its picket lines, sit-ins, boycotts and court battles -- reached the mythic status of the Southern civil rights movement.
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If he ticks off the labor people, well ..... they don't really have anywhere else to go _but_ Davis. The labor unions here in California aren't just liberal; they're leftist. Gray Davis is nothing if not a calculating, unprincipled politician.
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