Greg Richter - American Thinker
OK, so that’s not the best Chuck Norris joke ever written. But one San Francisco firefighter and former candidate for District 7 supervisor isn’t kidding around with his petition to rename the city’s Cesar Chavez Street as Chuck Norris Boulevard.
Stephen Martin-Pinto posted the effort to his X account, including renderings of the current street sign bearing the name of the actor and martial arts expert, who died last week at age 86.
"The legacy of Chavez, the labor leader who died in the early 1990s, has come under fire in recent days as allegations of sexual misconduct involving women and young girls have emerged. His name is ubiquitous across California on school buildings, parades and elsewhere, but efforts have quickly been launched to distance institutions from Chavez amid the allegations.
"Still, a proudly liberal city like San Francisco is unlikely to embrace renaming the street for Norris, who backed conservative and Christian causes and supported President Donald Trump. And the closest tie he appears to have had to the city was his 1974 martial-arts film Slaughter in San Francisco.
"Unlike Norris, Chavez had an established civic footprint in San Francisco: the city renamed Army Street for him in 1995, and for years also honored him with a parade, a school, and a student center — even if his strongest personal ties were elsewhere in California." . . .
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