The cavernous holy space soon filled up with people from all eras of Alatorre’s career. Former staffers did one final duty for their old boss by guiding people to their seats.
Even in death, Richard Alatorre looms large over Los Angeles, as I found out this morning on the way to his funeral. I got off the 101 freeway at First Street in Boyle Heights, Alatorre's birthplace, where he built an Eastside political machine that forever changed city and state politics. Paralleling my path as I headed west toward downtown were the Gold Line tracks, part of a light rail expansion to the Eastside that Alatorre pushed as chair of the MTA board of directors.
The two met in the 1970s when Mahony was a bishop in Fresno and Alatorre was beginning his political career. Alatorre's push to bring power to his constituents came from a 'deep communion with Jesus,' Mahony stressed in his sermon, pointing out that the lawmaker followed Christ's example of siding with people on the 'peripheries' of society. On one side of Alatorre’s casket were the flags of the United States, Mexico, the city of Los Angeles and the United Farm Workers.
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