I join my colleagues in honoring Cesar Chavez. a man who served as an inspiration to millions of people around the world. As a member of the San Diego City Council. I authored a resolution proclaiming April 18. 1989. as Cesar Chavez Day. At his celebration. accompanied by San Diego family members. he marveled. "I never expected a city as conservative as San Diego to designate a day in my honor." That was one of Cesars endearing traitshis simplicity. Cesar Chavez spent his life crusading for migrant farmworkers. Himself the son of such farmworkers. Cesar witnessed firsthand the long. hot days workers spent under the blazing Callfornia sun. bent over. tilling the fields.