Dolores Huerta: Grit, determination, and courage
One of the groups is the Dolores Huerta Action Fund (DHAF), based in Bakersfield (in Kern County, which has 63% of the voters in a critical voting district of the valley). DHAF’s president is Dolores Huerta, the renowned civil rights leader and farmworker rights activist in the Central Valley. With her support, DHAF staff and volunteers talked with 13,700 voters last year. Turnout rose in the November election throughout the district, which has a median age of 30 and is 74% Latino.
Dolores has shown grit and determination over the years as she stood up to serious challenges in her work to promote justice. She recently stepped up to reveal her decades-old abuse with courage. She wants to focus now on her work. CVM stands with her.
Nowhere is voter turnout more important than in the valley’s Congressional District 22 (CD-22), where the CVM grassroots groups work. This area, home to much of California’s farm belt from Fresno to Bakersfield, will elect a candidate to the House (Congress) in a race rated “tossup” by the Cook Political Report. CD-22 could be pivotal to deciding which political party has control of the House.
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