United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez and hundreds of farm workers from throughout California are walking precincts to get-out-the-vote for Jerry Brown and other key local candidates.
The UFW’s nationwide effort to get out the Latino vote so far has mobilized hundreds of farm workers and supporters to walk neighborhoods to help convince Latino voters in California to turn out today, Nov. 2 to make Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown the state’s next governor. The two-week campaign, which includes areas like Bakersfield, Coachella, Fresno, Oxnard, Salinas, Santa Rosa and more has reached 100,000 California voters.
“"In Spanish, there’s a great expression, ‘Di me con quien andas y te dire quien eres.’ Tell me who you are with and I will tell you who you are. Jerry Brown spent his final day on the campaign with farm workers and the people of California. Today, we can make history if we all do everything we can to talk to our friends, neighbors, and coworkers and get-out-the-vote."
As governor from 1975 to 1982, Brown helped Cesar Chavez and the UFW push through the Legislature California’s pioneering 1975 law granting farm workers the right to organize and bargain, abolished use of the infamous back-breaking short-handled hoe, brought farm workers coverage under unemployment insurance and appointed an unprecedented number of Latinos to high public office.