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...Mexican-American's lack of collective clout. Though the pochos are 90% Democratic by registration and traditionally vote the straight party line, they have received little in the way of socioeconomic remuneration for their loyalty. Politically, they fare even worse: only one Mexican-American, Democratic Congressman Edward Roybal, 51, has made it to the House of Representatives, and he, as many pochos point out, is a New Mexican-born aristocrat who pays little attention to the problems of the barrios...
This week the fight still raged. Promised Harby: "I'm going to vote no more funds to the city art department as long as they put out this kind of stinkweed stuff." Through it all, only one councilman declined the critic's chair. Said Ed Roybal: "I don't think we should sit as art critics. Deciding what is good art should be left to men who know what they're doing...