Gloria Molina, who served on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for more than two decades, died Sunday night after a battle with cancer.
The last time I saw Gloria Molina in person, I was interviewing her on the deepening scandal at Los Angeles City Hall, where secretly recorded racist audio recordings had resulted in the resignation of LA Council President Nury Martinez and cast a harsh light on then LA Councilman Gil Cedillo and Councilman Kevin de León.
It had been nine years since Molina had been termed out as LA County supervisor, a powerful position she held for 23 years, but there was no hesitation in her voice. Molina made it look easy, but it wasn’t. She not only took on the Anglo establishment to fight for her working class minority constituents, she sometimes took on her male Latino counterparts, who wanted her to wait her turn to run for office.
In mid-March, Ms. Molina announced on Facebook she had an aggressive form of terminal cancer. Even many of her close friends were shocked by the announcement. At the Resurrection Church in Boyle Heights, her family priest, Father John Moretta, recalled meeting Gloria Molina decades ago. "She took the cause up. She will always be identified with it. It put her in the limelight. She took on the most powerful politician Willie Brown. And two sitting governors Pete Wilson and Deukmejian," Father John said.
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