By The Opinion
Ana María Quintana is running for reelection to the Municipal Council of the city of Bell in the June 2 elections.
The other candidates are Néstor Enrique Valencia, Alicia Romero, Violeta Álvarez and Pablo Sifuentes.
Daughter of a Mexican family settled in Cudahy, she graduated from Columbia Law School after obtaining a BA from Yale.
He is part of a small number of Latinos with degrees from prestigious universities who have all their doors open and return to their community to contribute to the community.
He collaborated with the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; He advised the SEIU union on campaigns for living wages, and was an activist in the UFW farm union.
She is a real estate broker and consultant, and also advises a law firm advising municipal governments.
After the embezzlement of $5.5 million by Bell officials, Quintana worked for the city’s resurgence. With no prior political experience, he has served continuously since 2011, when he won a seat on the council. She was re-elected in 2013, in 2017 and once again in 2022.
Its platform emphasizes providing affordable and accessible healthcare to the population; provide job training and retraining of the workforce for the jobs of the future; support public schools to send their graduates to the best universities in the country, and work so that families have clean air and water.
Hosted voter registration, immigration town halls, housing information, and more.
For all these reasons, La Opinión considers that Ana María Quintana is worthy of its support and recommends that its Bell readers vote for her re-election.
