{"id":51907,"date":"2022-08-30T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51907"},"modified":"2022-08-30T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:40:11","slug":"labor-legend-dolores-huerta-endorses-councilwoman-lindsey-p-horvath-for-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51907","title":{"rendered":"LABOR LEGEND DOLORES HUERTA ENDORSES  COUNCILWOMAN LINDSEY P. HORVATH FOR SUPERVISOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>National Farmworkers Association Co-Founder and Civil Rights Activist Throws Support Behind Horvath\u2019s Bid for LA County Supervisor<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Today, the exalted activist, feminist, civil rights\u00a0and labor leader Dolores Huerta officially endorsed Councilwoman Lindsey P. Horvath for Los Angeles County Supervisor. A champion of worker, immigrant and women\u2019s rights, Huerta joins a broad coalition of prominent activists and leaders supporting Horvath\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lindsey Horvath knows how to create transformational change in her community,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said activist Dolores Huerta.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cHer work helping our most underserved groups\u2013immigrants, veterans, LGBTQ+ youth\u00a0and anyone in need\u2013will be the ethos she brings to the LA County Board of Supervisors. I am proud to support Lindsey for LA County Supervisor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dolores Huerta has been a civil rights advocate for most of her life. She fought tirelessly against the inhumane conditions California farmworkers were facing, leading a nationwide grape boycott in 1965 and supporting efforts for the first farmworker union contracts. With C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez, she founded the National Farm Workers Association &#8211; the predecessor of the United Farm Workers\u2019 Union. After recovering from a violent attack by the San Francisco Police Department during a peaceful protest, Huerta focused on women\u2019s rights, traveling across the country to encourage Latinas to run for office. She founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation in 2002 to continue her work\u00a0and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, the highest civilian award in the United States, in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored and humbled to earn the support of one of my sheroes and a true American icon, Dolores Huerta,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said LA County Supervisorial candidate and Councilwoman Lindsey P. Horvath.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cShe has dedicated her life to fighting for the voiceless. As Supervisor, I will strive to follow in her footsteps as a fierce and fearless advocate for the most marginalized communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Farmworkers Association Co-Founder and Civil&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51908,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51907\/revisions\/51908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}