Nativo Lopez, pioneering and polarizing Latino leader in Orange County, dies at 68.
Lopez made national news in 1985 when he helped more than 500 Santa Ana families stage a successful rent strike. He honed an aggressive, unapologetic campaign that he replicated for decades: Lopez rallied hundreds to city council meetings, brought protests to the houses of slumlords, and served up juicy quotes to a press who couldn’t get enough of a Latino who dared take on the Orange County political establishment with an army of immigrants here illegally.
Dornan accused Lopez and his volunteers of illegally registering noncitizens to help Sanchez win. The Orange County district attorney's office, the California secretary of state and Congress pursued investigations, while the local press committed multiple reporters to investigate the allegations.
Nativo. Imposing and verbose, with a propensity for natty suits and slick-backed hair, Lopez became a favorite of Spanish-language radio and television and penned frequent newspaper columns. Followers praised him as a brave man who took the fight to the belly of the beast; detractors dismissed him as little better than a corrupt race hustler.Meanwhile, Hermandad faced problems.
He spent the next 15 years organizing almost everywhere but Orange County. Lopez helped to plan the massive 2006 amnesty marches in Los Angeles, and was in McAllen, Texas, earlier this year to protest conditions on the U.S.-Mexico border. He teamed up with then-state Sen. Gil Cedillo , whom he had known since the 1970s, get a bill passed that allowed immigrants here illegally to apply for driver’s licenses. Then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger repealed one version in 2003, but Gov.
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