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- NATION, Page 53American NotesCALIFORNIACatch a Rising Star
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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, one-third of which is
- Hispanic.
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- 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.
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