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Raquel Zamora: Modern Day Adelita in a Battle for the Soul of L.A. City Council District 14

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Raquel Zamora seeks election to L.A. City Council as a representative of the 14th District.   Editorial by Abel M. Salas Like María Cabildo, the East Side community advocate, visionary affordable housing developer and neighborhood non-profit agency leader whose intelligence and integrity she openly admires, Raquel Zamora is a dyed-in-the-wool, indisputable daughter of Boyle Heights. In keeping with this more or less subjective—but no less legitimate—assertion, it stands to reason that Zamora, a child and grandchild of immigrants, is profoundly familiar with the definition of daughterhood traditionally favored by her forebears. While we stop short of building a case for the amusing possibility that the principles underlying the character and conduct her paternal grandfather would have equated with an ideal, or model daughter were genetically encoded in her DNA, it is fair to say Zamora has aspired to that standard since even before she entered preschool at San Antonio de Pad...