Joe Huizar's guilty plea and Kevin de León's racism scandal should not diminish the excellent work done by leaders from East L.A.
Richard Alatorre persuaded Gov. Ronald Reagan to sign the first California Bilingual Services Act and fought to bring light rail to East L.A.
Art Torres exposed the forced sterilization of Latinas at L.A. County General Hospital and did away with eugenics laws in California.Gil Cedillo made it possible for more than 1 million undocumented Californians to get driver licenses.Antonio Villaraigosa helped pass $40 billion in new funding for rail, road and highway projects in Los Angeles County.
Richard Polanco is the architect of the expansion of the Latino Legislative Caucus. California wouldn’t be the progressive powerhouse it is today without his work.Lettie Ibarra, Los AngelesFormer L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar, who is pleading guilty to federal racketeering charges, is certainly not the first of his political type. And he definitely will not be the last.
A million here and a million there soon add up to some serious corruption. Huizar’s distinction is that of being caught. Let the rest be forewarned.While Arellano’s column was informative, it was too bleak and read like a put-down of all Latino elected officials in Los Angeles. Not once in this column did Arellano mention any of the hundreds of Latino leaders who have served the community honestly. A major oversight was not to mention Edward R. Roybal, who served on the L.A. City Council for 13 years and was a member of Congress for 30 years.
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