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Rosario!

Rosario Marin, the US Treasurer, has resigned as US Treasurer and is expected to take on Boxer. I saw Rosario speak about a month ago. She came here from Mexico when she was 15, unable to speak English. For reasons that were unclear, she was given an IQ test in English and scored 28 (70 is considered profoundly retarded). That spurred her to work hard, learn English, and do well in school. She has 5 children, the oldest of which is disabled (Down's?) and still manged to work her way up in politics -- from mayor of Huntington Park to the US Treasurer. She's moderate, pro-choice and Latina -- a combination which may be enough to take on Boxer in CA (assuming that the conservative end of the CA GOP doesn't decide that she's too liberal for them and she wins the primary).