Word: molina
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...This election marks an end to an era of discrimination," declared a jubilant Gloria Molina, who last week became the first woman ever voted to a post on the Los Angeles County board of supervisors -- and its first Hispanic member since 1875. Molina, 42, the outspoken daughter of a Mexican immigrant laborer, defeated state senator Art Torres, 44, with 55% of the vote in a new district created last year by a federal court to rectify discrimination against Hispanics. The five-member board, with an annual budget of more than $10 billion, presides over the nation's most populous county...
...Molina, a Democrat, cast herself as a political outsider and waged a scrappy campaign against Torres, also a Democrat, who outspent her 2 to 1. Molina was previously the first Hispanic woman elected to the state legislature and the Los Angeles city council. Her latest win makes her one of the nation's most prominent Hispanic politicians...
...noble warrior, but his family, like most of Peru's 80,000 Japanese immigrants, first lived in a dirt- floored adobe hovel after arriving from southern Japan in 1934. The second of five children, Alberto worked hard, went to college and eventually became rector of Lima's La Molina National University of Agriculture...