Labor Icon Dolores Huerta Supports Prop 33

Dolores Huerta’s ad (Photo – Video screengrab, Prop33)

Labor icon Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers union alongside Cesar Chavez, is supporting California’s Proposition 33, the statewide ballot measure for rent control.

By News Desk

In a new television ad that began airing Saturday on Spanish language TV stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Huerta, 94, spoke directly to the camera and urged Californians to vote Yes on Proposition 33 in November because the rents in California are too damn high.

She also warned voters not to be fooled by the California Apartment Association, the front group for corporate landlords, which is fighting against rent control by spreading lies about Proposition 33.

The ad will run in both English and Spanish on KMEX (Univision) and KFTR (Unimas) in Los Angeles through September 3, 2024.

Proposition 33 is just 23 words:
"The state may not limit the right of any city, county, or city and county to maintain, enact or expand residential rent control.”