'Offensive, shameful': Hispanic Caucus rips Gohmert for trying to co-opt César Chávez's birthday
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Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert is the bargain bin version of the discount shelf that is Iowa Congressman Steve King, but every now and then he manages to find a way to out-deplorable Mr. Cantaloupe Calves. Case in point: Gohmert’s tweet attempting to co-o'Offensive, shameful': Hispanic Caucus rips Gohmert for trying to co-opt César Chávez's birthday
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert is the bargain bin version of the discount shelf that is Iowa Congressman Steve King, but every now and then he manages to find a way to out-deplorable Mr. Cantaloupe Calves. Case in point: Gohmert’s tweet attempting to co-opt the upcoming birthday of civil rights icon and United Farm Workers cofounder César Chávez, by declaring it “National Border Control Day”: xToday I filed a resolution that would declare Cesar Chavez's Birthday: «National Border Control Day.» Read more about the resolution, here: https://t.co/JCXg0vbRRRâ Louie Gohmert (@replouiegohmert) March 20, 2018 Gohmert’s “reasoning” is that “in the 1960s and ’70s, Chavez took a hard line against unauthorized immigration,” but of course he doesn’t mention that “by the 1980s, Chávez’s stance on the issue had shifted considerably,” supporting Ronald Reagan’s 1986 immigration package. Gohmert is stupid, but even he knows this, because he left it out of his research. Besides, you have every right to debate this history, but we’re also not about to let an anti-immigrant racist like Gohmert swoop in and try to reclaim his birthday like some bald Christopher Columbus, as Chávez remains a revered figure to Latinos as a champion of some of our most vulnerable and neglected, America’s farm workers. So, enter the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to rip him a new one. Read more