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Scott Fistler, a Democratic candidate for Arizona's 7th Congressional District seat, has changed his name to Cesar Chavez in a desperate bid to win over voters in his largely Hispanic community. (Fox News)

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FILE - In this undated file photo released by Pantelion Films shows Michael Pena as Cesar Chavez in a scene from "Cesar Chavez." The movie that opened Thursday, May 1, 2014, Labor Day in Latin America, is titled “El Mexicano que desafio a los Estados Unidos,” or “The Mexican who Defied the United States,” with the subtitle “Who the hell is Cesar Chavez?” (AP Photo/Pantelion Films, File)

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FILE - In this undated file photo released by Pantelion Films shows Michael Pena as Cesar Chavez in a scene from "Cesar Chavez." The movie that opened Thursday, May 1, 2014, Labor Day in Latin America, is titled “El Mexicano que desafio a los Estados Unidos,” or “The Mexican who Defied the United States,” with the subtitle “Who the hell is Cesar Chavez?” (AP Photo/Pantelion Films, File)

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**FILE** Cesar Chavez gestures as he speaks during a Los Angeles news conference March 8, 1989. Chavez, the United Farm workers president who staged a life-threatening fast against pesticide use in 1988, said the union's boycott of California table grapes is a success that has forced growers to lower prices and dump fruit they couldn't sell. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 file photo, actress Rosario Dawson attends the premiere of Pantelion Films and Participant Media's "Cesar Chavez" at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Playing Dolores Huerta in the biopic “Cesar Chavez” doesn’t seem enough for Dawson. The actress, who knew and worked with the renowned civil rights activist before shooting Diego Luna’s feature film, also wants to take her life to the screen. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP, file)

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 file photo, Diego Luna attends the premiere of Pantelion Films and Participant Media's "Cesar Chavez" at TCL Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles. Directed by Luna, “Cesar Chavez” follows the civil rights leader from his first efforts to organize farm workers in 1962 to that historic contract signing in 1970. The biopic opens Friday, March 28, 2014. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP, file)

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This photo released by Pantelion Films shows Rosario Dawson as Dolores Huerta, left, and Michael Pena as Cesar Chavez in a scene from the film, "Cesar Chavez." The biopic opens in theaters on Friday, March 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Pantelion Films, File)

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FILE - In this Monday, March 10, 2014 file photo, Director Diego Luna, right, and Paul F. Chavez arrive at the North American premiere of "Cesar Chavez" during the SXSW Film Festival, in Austin, Texas. For Chavez, one of Cesar Chavez’s eight children and head of the Cesar Chavez Foundation, the screening for farm workers in Delano, Calif., was the most significant. “To come back where the work began, where so much history happened, then to be with people that work on a daily basis to put food on our table, it’s heartwarming," he said. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP, file)