Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) and Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limon (D-Santa Barbara) announced on Thursday that they are putting legislation forward to change the March 31 state holiday to "Farmworkers Day."
Limon and Rivas said in a joint statement that California's farmworker rights movement was never about one individual. During an Assembly floor remarks on Thursday, Rivas said the movement was built by tens of thousands of workers, which continues to this day.
He said he was among those who were taken aback by the allegations against Chavez.
Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday also said he was open to renaming Cesar Chavez Day in California.
On Wednesday, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty said a subcommittee was tasked with renaming Cesar Chavez Plaza downtown, In San Francisco, Supervisor Jackie Fielder said she supported removing Chavez's name from any institutions in her district, which includes Cesar Chavez Elementary School in the city's Mission District, and the California State University said it was considering "appropriate courses of action" on the facilities and public areas named for Chavez.
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