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San Diego area Rep. Duncan Hunter criticizes Navy's decision to name ship for Cesar Chavez
LA TIMES ^ | May 17, 2011 | LA TIMES

Posted on 05/17/2011 5:58:51 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) disagrees with the Navy's decision to name a cargo ship under construction in San Diego for California farm labor leader Cesar Chavez. The decision, announced Tuesday, "appear[s] to be more about making a political statement than upholding the Navy's history and tradition," Hunter said in press release....

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


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To: The Bronze Titan
Sorry about the double post and never mind. I found an article about his comment. 5th paragraph.

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/cesarchavez.html

41 posted on 05/17/2011 7:04:05 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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To: ought-six

Chavez was opposed to illegal immigration...maybe a smart right-winger could club the commies with this fact....


42 posted on 05/17/2011 7:04:30 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: OldMissileer

JHC I should have known that. Was too emotional to see that!


43 posted on 05/17/2011 7:11:39 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: The Bronze Titan

What’s next? The USS Al Sharpton?


44 posted on 05/17/2011 7:12:55 PM PDT by luvbach1 (checked your profile)
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To: magna carta

The commies know of his position re: illegals, I would think. But, facts are terrifying things to the left. Emotion and symbolism are EVERYTHING to the left.


45 posted on 05/17/2011 7:15:32 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Iron Munro
At least there is one man in the government with some common sense and the guts to speak the truth.

Unfortunately that's why his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination never got off the ground.

46 posted on 05/17/2011 7:15:55 PM PDT by luvbach1 (checked your profile)
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To: luvbach1
We are heading for a Financial Crisis.

Get prepared Obama knows that he needs 95% Hispanic and Black vote.

I am really scared now.

47 posted on 05/17/2011 7:23:44 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: The Bronze Titan

WTF is going on??? I really don’t know how much more I can take.


48 posted on 05/17/2011 7:34:27 PM PDT by panthermom (Pray for my son in Aghanistan and all the troops!)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

I read there is already one planned for the One.


49 posted on 05/17/2011 7:45:22 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: The Bronze Titan

What next? Maybe a Navy destroyer named “Cindy Sheehan?” The libs are running amock!!


50 posted on 05/17/2011 7:54:29 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: Politicalmom; driftdiver
Too late. They’re naming something after Zero. I just read it a couple days ago.

Let me guess ...

The SSN Zero, AKA the Don't Ask, Don't Tell

51 posted on 05/17/2011 7:54:35 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: The Bronze Titan
"In 1973, the United Farm Workers set up a "wet line" along the United States-Mexico border to prevent Mexican immigrants from entering the United States illegally and potentially undermining the UFW's unionization efforts."
52 posted on 05/17/2011 9:33:20 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Until Reagan rises from the dead: Thank God McCain didnt win. Obama's better than some RINO.)
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To: K-oneTexas
Lots of Hispanic explorers could be honored--Ponce de Leon, Cabeza de Vaca, Cabrillo, Coronado, De Soto, Vizcaino, Padre Kino, etc.

I don't know if any of those men have already been honored.

53 posted on 05/17/2011 9:33:23 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: The Bronze Titan

First Main Circuit: “Sweepers, sweepers! Man your hoes!...”


54 posted on 05/17/2011 10:52:05 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: 444Flyer; Nachum

ping

and no.... this is not from The Onion.


55 posted on 05/18/2011 5:15:26 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: combat_boots

LOL...I think it should be a thugboat.


56 posted on 05/18/2011 7:21:47 AM PDT by afnamvet (I stand with Israel.)
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To: HollyB
Will La Raza be christening it?

This nation is going further into the abyss every day under this administration.:(

57 posted on 05/18/2011 10:25:33 AM PDT by 444Flyer ("...Rather the scorned- the rejected -the men hemmed in with the spears..." from 'A Consecration')
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