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Dolores Huerta’s endorsement of Scott Wiener surprises Connie Chan's allies 46%
By Yujie Zhou69%
7/21/2026, 9:41:46 PM
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Surprising many allies, labor and civil-rights icon Dolores Huerta endorsed state Sen.
Scott Wiener on Monday in his congressional race against Supervisor Connie Chan.
In a statement announcing her pick, Huerta said of Wiener, “He stands with workers fighting for fair treatment, families struggling with an affordability crisis pricing them out of the state they built, tenants struggling with rent, and immigrant communities under attack.”
“I know the difference between a politician who talks about justice and one who fights for it,” Huerta wrote.
Huerta and Wiener have joined forces on various bills over the years, including Wiener’s efforts to revamp the state estate tax.
While Wiener has the endorsement of some unions, notably the National Union of Healthcare Workers and the California Conference of Carpenters, Chan is widely seen as labor’s candidate: She has 40 union logos on her endorsement page, and Rudy Gonzalez, a leader of both the San Francisco Building & Construction Trades Council and the San Francisco Labor Council, took a leave of absence from his positions to run Chan’s campaign.
Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez and coined the rallying cry “Sí se puede” during a 1972 labor fight in Arizona.
Her sole endorsement of Wiener is a hit to Chan’s campaign, which has been busy racking up new endorsements, most recently from Rep.
Ro Khanna.
“She was never on my radar about this campaign,” said Gonzalez, who says he did not expect Huerta, who lives in Bakersfield, to weigh in on a San Francisco race.
Chan’s campaign has instead sought the endorsement of the United Farm Workers, which endorsed Chan’s 2024 reelection campaign for supervisor.
Huerta and the United Farm Workers make independent endorsement decisions.
In the 2024 California Senate primary, the United Farm Workers endorsed Adam Schiff, and Huerta endorsed Barbara Lee.
Surprise among allies
“I am very taken aback,” said Gabriella Lozano, president of the San Francisco Latino Democratic Club.
“What I think should happen is that she would also endorse Connie, who aligns more with her mission and vision.”
Lozano argued that Chan, who’s an immigrant, will better represent the struggles of immigrants and the Latino community.
She says that Wiener was absent from the Latino Democratic Club’s congressional forum this past February.
(At the time, Wiener said that his absence was in protest of the club’s way of investigating accusations of sexual assault against its former president, Kevin Ortiz.)
The Latino Democratic Club, which endorsed Saikat Chakrabarti in the primary, will endorse Chan later this week, said Lozano.
Huerta’s endorsement carries weight.
During the November 2024 election, after Huerta endorsed incumbent London Breed for mayor, Tracy Gallardo, a founder of the Latino Task Force, described a Huerta endorsement to Mission Local as an ace in the hole.
“I’ve worked on other campaigns where the minute [Huerta] dropped an endorsement, every Latino caller, that is what we used.
Oh Dolores Huerta?
Si, cómo que claro que si.
Who do you want me to vote for?
Okay.’
You say Dolores Huerta, you slap that on a flyer and you put that out, you got the vote.”
After Huerta endorsed Breed, Sal Rosselli, president emeritus of the National Union of Healthcare Workers and an old ally of Huerta’s since the ‘80s, reached out to her and made a case for then-Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin as a stronger labor candidate.
Huerta went on to endorse Peskin, Breed's rival, as well.
Rosselli, whose union supports Wiener, said he initiated the idea of seeking Huerta’s endorsement.
“I knew that Dolores joining our team to elect Scott would mean a lot,” said Rosselli.
Last year, the National Union of Healthcare Workers endorsed Wiener, in part over state legislation Wiener authored to expand access to mental-health services and to examine pay disparities affecting mental-health workers.
“When I saw her at her birthday celebration a couple of months ago, ‘I said, Dolores, we have to get Scott elected.’
And she said, ‘Of course’ instantly.”
Huerta “is an incredibly powerful and important voice, iconic, inspirational, but not infallible,” said Mike Casey, president of the San Francisco Labor Council who now works on a pro-Chan independent expenditure committee.
Chan has built a broad coalition of labor support, Casey continued, and Huerta’s endorsement of Wiener is “kind of a distraction.”
“This is the first time, to my knowledge, that Dolores has ever endorsed a candidate who was rejected by the California state labor movement and the San Francisco labor movement,” Casey added, referring to Chan’s endorsement by the California Federation of Labor Unions and the San Francisco Labor Council.
“I haven’t given up any hope that maybe she’ll … give a nod to both of them and recognize that they both should get her endorsement,” Casey said.
Gonzalez added that he’s going to send Huerta “a list of every union that’s endorsed Connie.
Just to let her know.”
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