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PupCamo

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Fri Feb 15, 2019, 05:37 PM Feb 2019

Latino labor rights icon endorses Kamala Harris

Source: Politico

Dolores Huerta, the iconic labor and civil rights leader who co-founded what became the United Farm Workers, is endorsing Sen. Kamala Harris for president, according to a statement shared first with POLITICO.

Huerta, who started the National Farmworkers Association alongside the late Cesar Chavez, is also signing onto Harris’ campaign as a California co-chair, joining Rep. Barbara Lee, a former Congressional Black Caucus chair, who endorsed Harris on Wednesday.

Huerta’s backing is a significant development in the early stages of the 2020 campaign and gives the California senator a leading voice in the labor movement and among Latinos nationally.

“I have spent my career advocating for workers’ rights, immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, and on behalf of the LBGTQ community because I believe our country is only as great as the opportunities we afford all our communities,” Huerta said. “Senator Kamala Harris is the right leader to expand those opportunities as president, and I am proud to endorse her.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/15/huerta-endorses-kamala-harris-2020-election-1172256

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Latino labor rights icon endorses Kamala Harris (Original Post) PupCamo Feb 2019 OP
YES!!! LovingA2andMI Feb 2019 #1
Excellent! sheshe2 Feb 2019 #2
That is a very "significant development".. Cha Feb 2019 #3
Congrats Kamala! SunSeeker Feb 2019 #4
I know one potential candidate that did have a snowball's chance in hell getting her support. George II Feb 2019 #5
Whoa! That's prettty good. B Stieg Feb 2019 #6
Yeah for Beto Gothmog Feb 2019 #7
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