Relatives of Cesar Chavez decry the Kennedy campaign's use of the late labor icon's image. The candidate's father, RFK, was an ally of the farmworkers union Chavez co-founded.
During the 1980 presidential primaries, Fernando Chavez traveled for months with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as they worked on the presidential campaign of his uncle Sen. Ted Kennedy. In living room after living room, Chavez said, he saw some combination of three framed pictures on the wall: portraits of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; of Kennedy's father, the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy ; and of his own father, Cesar Chavez, who had co-founded the United Farm Workers.
Kennedy has been holding more events in recent weeks as he strives to get on the ballot in as many states as possible — an expensive and complicated process without the backing of one of the two major parties. He announced Tuesday that political newcomer Nicole Shanahan would be his running mate. Shanahan helped produce and pay for a Super Bowl commercial that relied on imagery and music from a television spot that John F. Kennedy ran while running for president in 1960.
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