What the Cesar Chavez Sex Scandal Says About Lefties

Barack Obama actually declared a "Cesar Chavez Day" as a federal observance holiday, and a number of states have made it an official state holiday, complete with paid time off, school closures, and all the hoopla that surrounds Presidents' Day or Thanksgiving. 

Oops. It turns out that Chavez abused young women and girls, and also that the people around him knew all about it and hid the facts because...of course, they did. 

This has been widely known for years to anyone who lived and worked in the California Central Valley.

Anyway, maybe we should get rid of the national monument that Barack Obama dedicated to Cesar Chavez in 2012. https://t.co/ZCS7qw30Jx pic.twitter.com/4f6hMlVBnG

— Theo Wold (@RealTheoWold) March 18, 2026

Liberal icons can get away with anything. That is an iron rule of politics, proven by the Kennedy brothers, who raped and literally killed women with no consequences, and who remain icons to this day despite the fact that everybody knows that they were sexual scumbags. 

All Your Faves Are Problematic: now do Harvey Milk https://t.co/trCxKbUYyW

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 18, 2026

Ask Bill Clinton about his own brush with infamy and his remaining popularity with the left. 

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— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 18, 2026

Chávez has been dead for 30 years, and the secret of his penchant for raping young girls remained a secret. Or, should I say, an open secret to those who knew him, but hidden by them from the public. 

Ana Murguia remembers the day the man she had regarded as a hero called her house and summoned her to see him. She walked along a dirt trail, entered the rundown building, passed his secretary and stepped into his office.

He locked the door, as he always did when he called her, and told her how lonely he had been. He brought her onto the yoga mat that he often used in his office for meditation, kissed her and pulled her pants down. “Don’t tell anyone,” he told her afterward. “They’d get jealous.”

The man, Cesar Chavez, one of the most revered figures in the Latino civil rights movement, was 45. She was 13. Ms. Murguia said she was summoned for sexual encounters with him dozens of times over the next four years.

Recently, more than 50 years later, Ms. Murguia learned that a street near her home in the Central California city of Bakersfield was in the process of being renamed. City officials want to name it in honor of her abuser.

No man can rape young women on a serial basis—especially in his office when others are just outside—and have nobody know. It is as implausible as so many other cases, such as those of Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, or Matt Lauer, each of whom sexually abused women and got away with it for years, despite everybody knowing. Jimmy Savile, in the UK, was a raging pedophile, and it only came out once he was safely dead. 

Today’s cover: Union icon at center of shocking sex claims, Cesar Chavez days canceled. https://t.co/9JF6BBxtF1

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— California Post (@californiapost) March 18, 2026

Of course, it's true that wealthy and powerful people get away with things that nobody else can, but there is something especially perverse about how often liberal icons are lionized despite the fact that everybody knows they are evil people. 

Ms. Murguia and another woman, Debra Rojas, say that Mr. Chavez sexually abused them for years when they were girls, from around 1972 to 1977. He was in his 40s and had become a powerful, charismatic figure who captured global attention as a champion of farmworker rights.

The two women have not shared their stories publicly before, and an investigation by The New York Times has uncovered extensive evidence to support their accusations and those raised by several other women against Mr. Chavez, the United Farm Workers co-founder who died in 1993 at the age of 66.

The questions raised by The Times about Mr. Chavez, one of the most consequential figures in Mexican American history, set off immediate reverberations and alarmed and disturbed his allies. Even before this article was published, upon learning of the reporters’ inquiries, the U.F.W. canceled its annual celebrations honoring Mr. Chavez, a response to what the union he once led called “profoundly shocking” accusations.

Ms. Murguia and Ms. Rojas, both of whom are now 66, were the daughters of longtime organizers who had marched in rallies alongside Mr. Chavez. He used the privacy of his California office to frequently molest Ms. Murguia, she said. He had known her since she was 8 years old. She became so traumatized that she attempted to end her life multiple times by the age of 15.

Larry Craig, a former US Senator from Idaho, was arrested and driven out of politics for...literally sitting the wrong way on a toilet. The "wide stance" got him driven out of public life. 

Just wondering when Democrats and leftists are going to start their campaign of tearing down Cesar Chavez statues and renaming Cesar Chavez streets? https://t.co/FYaTGI0MV0

— AK Kamara (@realakkamara) March 18, 2026

The Democrats keep accusing Donald Trump of being a pedophile—a blatant falsehood—as their own elite has been knocked over like bowling pins for their associations with Epstein. Trump helped the prosecutors get Epstein; they kept in touch with him until he died in prison. 

None of them cared about his pedophilic tendencies or his arrest for soliciting child prostitution. None. 

Sexual abuse allegations against César Chávez alter plans

Allegations of sexual misconduct have surfaced involving the late farm labor leader César Chávez, including accusations involving women and minors.

In a letter released Tuesday, the Cesar Chavez Foundation said the… pic.twitter.com/n8diIzc45b

— Betty Yu (@bett_yu) March 18, 2026

The Chavez sex scandal is, today, long in the rear-view mirror. As disgusting as it is, it's impossible to prosecute him, and as impossible to take away the decades of having this disgusting man shoved into our faces as an icon of virtue.

Leaders in United Farm Workers knew for years about molestation allegations against Cesar Chavez, but didn't do anything about it. https://t.co/mto2JVzDWT pic.twitter.com/On4nfZ7RYN

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) March 18, 2026

But what does matter is the reminder that liberals and sexual deviancy go hand in hand. The lefty obsession with and tolerance for deviant and abusive sex knows no bounds. Harvey Weinstein was the belle of the ball for years, and Hollywood loves Roman Polanski, who drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl. He remains an icon to this day. 

All this pious "Cesar Chavez doesn't reflect our values" BS is crap. They knew all about him, and it is only now that they disavow him, when his depravity has been revealed to the world.