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The Modesto Bee - Meet Marie Alvarado-Gil, Stanislaus’ new state senator; her surprising political ascent
She can castrate goats and inseminate dairy cows.
In her youth, she learned to love reading from trashy paperbacks picked up at garage sales while resisting recruitment into gangs and human trafficking.
Marie Alvarado-Gil survived poverty, abuse and domestic violence as a child, and two kinds of cancer as an adult.
And a few weeks ago, this 48-year-old Democrat from Jackson who attended high school in Mexico got herself elected to represent one of the most white, Republican districts in the California Senate. Can this be real?