[Army Air Corps]

Naming a ship for a commie douchebag. Great.

[Dallas59]

In 1979 when Chavez and the United Farm Workers launched a campaign on the Arizona border to keep Mexican workers from entering America. There was a 100-mile long stretch of land called the “wet line” that turned into a dangerous place for undocumented immigrant workers.
They only searched for something humankind has been looking for since the beginning of time – a warm place to sleep, a meal, a job, a place to raise a family, a place that welcomes them with compassion, and not the gun-toting Minutemen of today or like the UFW in 1979 who beat them as they attempted to cross. (New York Times, February 7, 1979)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They can call it the “wetback”.

[elkfersupper]

One of the sickest things I ever saw or heard.

I wonder when we will have a USS Saddam Hussein?

[mylife]

Our Government is out of control.
What does a community organizer have to do with our military?

[Gay State Conservative]

Next will be the USS Richard Simmons.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Next on this list, USS Jeremiah Wright.

[Doogle]

The ship’s sponsor is Chavez’s widow, Helen Fabela Chavez.

[skeeter]

The navy used to reserve the honor for those who were associated with the navy in some way - either a sailor who had distinguished himself or one of the navy's political benefactors. Chavez distinguished himself as a union leader.

The leftists corrupt everything they touch with their manic focus on the political.

[omega4179]

Romney will do nothing to reverse this.

[mylife]

Lord knows we cant name a ship the USS "Whitey" Mack

[madison10]

Whose navy?! The article doesn’t say. Next it will be the USS Mao and the USS Lenin. Disgusting.

Is this satire?

[jmcenanly]

I was always under the impression that Naval vessels were named for people who were either in the armed services or had been commander in chief.Cesar Chavez has been neither. Also, where are we getting all these ships? This is the second time I've heard of liberals attempting to name a vessel after one of their icons, the first being Harvey Milk.
Personally, if this keeps up, I think we should go to non-personal names

[onedoug]

Wait for LPD 26 USS John Murtha.

A blight on the Gator Navy.

[Chode]

how does his wife get to be the sponsor???

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Later, Chavez described his experience in the military as “the two worst years of my life.”

In all fairness, while the left always tried to glom on to Chavez, he kept his focus, that being that farm workers were treated like dogs, frequently cheated, and forced to work in crippling (literally) jobs at reduced pay, even though they were American citizens. Their lives sucked, and nobody cared.

A lot of what his organization did was to try and force farmers to obey US labor laws, which they often ignored, to pay at least minimum wage, which they often didn’t, ended wage kickbacks from workers compelled to live in shacks and having to pay hefty rents, etc.

What made the Mexican-Americans so attractive politically back then still applies today. They are not a monolithic vote, so both parties have to contend for them. The Republicans were somewhat behind the power curve on that, and are still trying to catch up.

[reg45]

It will probably wind up hauling foreign grown lettuce to the United States.

[tumblindice]

USS Cesar Chavez, cargo-ammunition ship. Motto: `We Would give Them a Whiff of the Grape, But We’re On Strike’.

[njslim]

Did n’t they have a garbage barge which could be named for this POS....

[njslim]

Did n’t they have a garbage barge which could be named for this POS....