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Democrat Senator Pulls Resolution To Honor Cesar Chavez After GOP Adds Border Security Language
Top Right News ^ | 03-31-2014 | Brian Hayes

Posted on 03/31/2014 7:34:29 PM PDT by montag813

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by Brian Hayes | Top Right News

Senator Bob Menendez introduced a resolution to honor "Cesar Chavez' legacy." But hilarity ensued when Republicans tried to tell the truth about Chavez' real position against illegal immigration.

With the late-labor icon Cesar Chavez in the news because of the release of the film bearing his name, plus his March 31 birthday, many advocates for illegal alien amnesty are using Chavez' memory to promote their cause.

One such advocate, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, introduced a resolution calling for the Senate to honor and promote his legacy.

But the resolution was objected to by Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions on behalf of Louisiana Senator David Vitter, who wanted to add an amendment pointing out that Chavez opposed illegal immigration, demanded a secure border, and believed in enforcing immigration law.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; immigration; senate
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1 posted on 03/31/2014 7:34:29 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

What a coward.


2 posted on 03/31/2014 7:38:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: montag813

I thought Chavez didn’t believe in illegal immigration.


3 posted on 03/31/2014 7:41:07 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: montag813

Hmm. That could be one Cesar Chavez memorial I can support. The Cesar Chavez Memorial border fence.


4 posted on 03/31/2014 7:43:13 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: montag813

is Bob Menendez still screwing poor children?


5 posted on 03/31/2014 7:47:21 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (We should not fear our government. Our government should fear us.)
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To: montag813

Fantastic work by Senators Sessions and Vitter tonight! THIS is how McConnell would fight the RATs every day if he had a pair.


6 posted on 03/31/2014 7:48:38 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

AWESOME article. The GOP schooled the Dems tonight. Sessions for Majority Leader!


7 posted on 03/31/2014 7:49:42 PM PDT by AuditTheFed
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To: Organic Panic

I was a bag boy for Winn-Dixie grocery stores (non Union) when he was at his height.

Like 99% of Southerners, I detest Unions, but I did like that our owner, A.D. Sanders, ALWAYS made sure that his bag boys made a nickle more an hour than the Union boys.


8 posted on 03/31/2014 7:57:02 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: montag813

Cesar Chavez was a union organizer for the field workers. He realized that illegal immigrants would drive down the wages of the legal field workers and opposed illegal immigration. He was right!

The field workers that he worked for were paid minimum wages or less and worked under horrendous conditions with zero benefits or job security.

Due to illegal immigration the wage structure is still minimal or less. Illegal immigration has destroyed his work and dream. Chavez is one of the good guys. It is sad that the historical revisionists want to paint him as an advocate of illegal immigration. He was a union organizer for those that needed help and he was an American patriot.

ps
I am not a great fan of unions but in the case of Cesar Chavez’s work I am.


9 posted on 03/31/2014 7:58:13 PM PDT by cpdiii
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To: montag813

They should have added a resolution to honor the Kock Brothers, if the left can honor a commie, then we can surely honor a couple of capitalists.. That would have really p*ssed them off!


10 posted on 03/31/2014 8:11:37 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
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Correction the Koch brothers.


11 posted on 03/31/2014 8:13:07 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
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To: montag813

Just another glaring example of how demonrats try to manipulate minorities. Be it Chavez or King, they’ll use their name for whatever selfish political reasons at the moment.


12 posted on 03/31/2014 8:13:47 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Hey 2008, we told you so)
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To: montag813

Chavez did not like illegals.


13 posted on 03/31/2014 9:07:21 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: montag813

It just makes my day that a stinking RAT by name of Menendez got handed his head. Him and others like him are what is wrong with this country, a Pox on all of their houses.


14 posted on 03/31/2014 9:07:47 PM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: montag813

Revising the history of Chavez who knew the cons of illegal immigration.


15 posted on 03/31/2014 9:34:49 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: AuditTheFed
AWESOME article. The GOP schooled the Dems tonight.

I think the credit should go to Sessions and Vitter, not the GOP.

16 posted on 03/31/2014 9:45:03 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: montag813
That communist should never be honored!!!

In 1980 when I ran for the Assembly against Alatore his 100% of his protesters were from 8 of the Catholic parishes in that district and none of them had ever worked on a farm.

The only way he got the farmers in the Central valley to sign labor agreements was in conjunction with Bank of America.

The farmers were denied crop loans unless they could produce a signed labor contract with Chavez.

Under the labor contract the farm workers lost wages and housing benefits so it was nothing but a move to communise the worker population!

17 posted on 03/31/2014 9:53:24 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: montag813

LOL!


18 posted on 03/31/2014 10:22:44 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: cpdiii
Chavez is one of the good guys. It is sad that the historical revisionists want to paint him as an advocate of illegal immigration. He was a union organizer for those that needed help and he was an American patriot.

I'm sorry, but "one of the good guys" doesn't try to run an illegal secondary boycott. Nor does "one of the good guys" order his minions to murder his antagonists.

I had more than enough experience with Cesar Chavez and his people in the clash between Chavez' United Farm Workers and the viniculturists of California.

I ran the advertising account for a champagne brand when they first went national around 1966. My client and I were returning to the winery from dinner in a nearby town when the front windshield grew a "flower" and a bullet thudded into the carseat about six inches from my head. Ben floored the accelerator and we raced down the canyon at full speed.

There were no other shots -- none that we were aware of, anyway. When we got back to the winery, Ben shared his past few weeks of "negotiating" with Chavez and his team. Mostly, it amounted to refusing to buckle under to threats of physical or financial mayhem.

When I got back to Dallas, I found my agency's office building entrance mobbed by UFW demonstrators -- demanding me to stop the advertising campaign. They were also demonstrating at the ABC studios in NYC, where the Dick Cavett Show was recorded -- demanding that they stop running our ads. The network wanted to buckle, but that would've compromised the entire marketing effort. I negotiated a compromise -- they would run the pre-recorded ads, but they wouldn't let Cavett do any more live spots.

I spent my own week "negotiating" with these miserable SOBs who were trying to break me -- and who had actually tried to kill me, but missed.

In the absence of actual experience, I might've been able to work up a little sympathy for their plight. But they shoot at you and try to destroy your livelihood...and I'm plumb out of sympathy.

No, Chavez was NOT "one of the good guys". And his organization and tactics were those of simple thugs.

19 posted on 03/31/2014 10:29:59 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: eddie willers

If I remember correctly, my grandfather, a company man who lost his job at the demand of the collectivists and who nevertheless wasn’t embittered and didn’t look back, recognized that Mr. Sanders was on to something.


20 posted on 03/31/2014 10:39:26 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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