“They don’t forget who helped them and they come back, we all come back,” Gallegos said. 

A pendulum passing forward the critical resources they once needed, while pushing the growing footprint of Latino voters to exercise this power at the polls. 

According to a recent data profile by UC Riverside’s Center for Social Innovation, there are 197 Latino elected officials in the Inland Empire, though representation is still well below the Latino populations’ majority status in this region. 

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