Talk:Ricardo Lara

Not native
"Early life and career" only has his career. Might want to put how he's not a native of America, yet dictates American immigration policy. 68.198.104.107 (talk) 18:22, 20 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Care to back that up with evidence? There have been instances of Wikipedians calling biographic subjects "native" of this place or another, when the subjects weren't born in a given place.  Is this another case of misuse of the term "native"? &mdash; QuicksilverT @ 16:23, 10 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Ricardo Lara's parents came to the US illegally, but he was born here. http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-ricardo-lara-20130728-dto-htmlstory.html Enneye (talk) 01:00, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

AB 954 Inaccuracies
This should not be part of "In the State Assembly" because it involves legislative activity in 2015, after Lara was elected to the Senate.

Sen. Lara did not "veto" AB 954, although as Chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations he may have played a large role in the bill's being placed and held in the suspense file. The Approriations Committee voted 7-0 to do so.

East Porterville is in Tulare County. It's part of AB 954 author Assemblymember Devon Mathis's district, not Sen. Lara's district in Los Angeles County. The current paragraph finds Lara's opposition to the bill notable on inaccurate grounds.

The vote in the Assembly was 78-0, with 2 abstentions, not 60-0.

Also note that Lara did vote for a very similar bill the following year, but the Governor vetoed it.

I'd just as soon delete the paragraph than make the necessary corrections.

CmpGold (talk) 10:47, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

As a representative of Senator Lara I agree with the suggestion to delete this section, which is inaccurate and narrow. The description by the previous editor is accurate and reason to delete this. Mcsoller (talk) 16:46, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

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