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标题：Chavez a poor pick, activists say
作者：Kyle Henley
期刊名称：Gazette, The (Colorado Springs)
出版年度：2001
卷号：Jan 3, 2001
出版社：Colorado Springs Gazette

Chavez a poor pick, activists say

Kyle Henley

DENVER - Linda Chavez, President-elect George W. Bush's choice for Secretary of Labor, is disliked by Hispanic activists for her efforts to require Colorado's public school classes to be taught in English only.

"If this is a Bush attempt to look like he is appointing diverse people to his Cabinet, then he needs to know that she doesn't represent the Hispanic community," said Kathy Escamilla, a member of Common Sense Colorado, a group formed to fight Chavez's English-only ballot measure.

Hispanic groups opposed to Chavez have dubbed her "La Malinche," or "the traitor."

Last summer, Chavez, worked with Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo, R- Colo., to put an English-only initiative on the state ballot. In June and July, Chavez and supporters were collecting the roughly 63,000 signatures needed to qualify for the November ballot.

The Colorado Supreme Court, however, shot down the measure in a unanimous decision, calling it "unclear and misleading."

Chavez and her supporters have said they will try again in 2002.