Linda Chavez

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Linda Chavez, born June 17, 1947, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a prominent Hispanic conservative author, commentator, and radio talk show host. In 1986 she ran as a Republican from Maryland for the United States Senate but lost to Democrat Barbara Mikulski. In 2000 she was named a Library of Congress Living Legend. In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated her for Secretary of Labor, but the nomination was withdrawn after it was revealed that she had once provided money to an illegal immigrant living in her home. While Chavez contended that she had not actually employed the woman, but had merely provided her with assistance, the distinction was lost on both the American people and the President.

Her staunch conservatism has been controversial in the Mexican-American community, as some consider her a "sell-out" or "vendida" (see race traitor).

She is not to be confused with Linda Chavez-Thompson, the vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee and executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO.

Recent Work

Linda Chavez is a syndicated columnist and a Fox News contributor. As they do with most prominent conservative commentators, the liberal organization Media Matters for America maintains a substantial list of errors and mis-statements that she has made since May of 2004. [1]

She is also the president of the think tank Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative organization opposed to affirmative action and bilingual education.

Bibliography

• Betrayal: how union bosses shake down their members and corrupt American politics, 2004 (ISBN 1400052599)
• An Unlikely Conservative: the transformation of an ex-liberal, or, how I became the most hated Hispanic in America, 2002 (ISBN 0465089046)
• Out of the Barrio: toward a new politics of Hispanic assimilation , 1991 (ISBN 0465054315)

External Links

• Her official site
• Biography from Center for Equal Opportunity web site.