Latinos' political power remains significantly underrepresented in California despite their plurality status, emerging studies and data points show.
. California, where Latinos have had a longer history, offers lessons about the challenges of achieving parity when it comes to political representation.“Boards and commissions are a pathway to political power,” Paul Barragan-Monge, an author of the UCLA report, tells Axios Latino. He said to build that pipeline, communities must apply a “level of intentionality" to filling positions of authority.
The report cites several avenues, including: Limiting the practice of reappointing the same people to boards; mandating state tracking of the demographic makeup of gubernatorial appointees; directing proportional representation by race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation or other factors.according to the latest Judicial Council data. California hasn’t had a Latino governor since 1875; Sen.
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