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Filipinos Make New Inroads in California Politics

KQED News Staff

Aug 31, 2012 at

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Despite making up the second-largest group of Asian-Americans in California, Filipino-Americans in California haven't achieved much success in the halls of political power. Now, two Philippine-born Californians in the San Francisco Bay Area are set to change that.

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