Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at CPAC 2011. The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convened at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC on Feb.10, 2011. This year's conference included more than 11,000 conservative leaders and activists meeting to "discuss many of the political and social issues challenging our nation today." (Photo by Jeff Malet)
Delores Huerta is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW), and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at CPAC 2011. The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convened at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC on Feb.10, 2011. This year's conference included more than 11,000 conservative leaders and activists meeting to "discuss many of the political and social issues challenging our nation today." (Photo by Jeff Malet)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Democrats and Republicans can be friends. Imaginative protest signs were aplenty among the several hundred thousand who attended a "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" on the National Mall organized by Comedy Central talk show hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert  in Washington DC on Saturday, October 30, 2010. The rally took place only a few days before crucial mid-term elections that could tilt power in Congress toward the Republicans. (Photo by Jeff Malet)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at CPAC 2011. The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convened at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC on Feb.10, 2011. This year's conference included more than 11,000 conservative leaders and activists meeting to "discuss many of the political and social issues challenging our nation today." (Photo by Jeff Malet)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at CPAC 2011. The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convened at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC on Feb.10, 2011. This year's conference included more than 11,000 conservative leaders and activists meeting to "discuss many of the political and social issues challenging our nation today." (Photo by Jeff Malet)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at CPAC 2011. The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convened at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC on Feb.10, 2011. This year's conference included more than 11,000 conservative leaders and activists meeting to "discuss many of the political and social issues challenging our nation today." (Photo by Jeff Malet)
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