Labor Secretary Praises 'Role Model' Socialist

President Obama’s Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, recently spoke at the naming of the Cesar Chavez Auditorium in Washington, D.C. There she praised in glowing terms Dolores Huerta, a socialist co-founder of the United Farm Workers, whom she called “my teacher, my role model, and mi hermana,” a “living legend.” Huerta is also honorary co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and has praised Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez in glowing terms in front of high school students.

This shouldn’t be a surprise coming from Solis, who has associated with radicals before – she is deeply intertwined with the National Council of La Raza, a Latino organization that has raked in millions in federal grants, and which is closely associated with the La Raza movement, a radical movement pushing for the racial “bronzing” of the Southwest. When Solis was appointed Labor Secretary, the Communist Party’s newspaper quoted sources who called her a “great choice” with a “life-long commitment to working people.”