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Marin Draws a Contrast to Past GOP Candidates

By Richard Marosi, Times Staff Writer

After stepping down as U.S. treasurer last summer, Rosario Marin returned to the working-class Latino community of Huntington Park where she has lived since arriving from Mexico as a poor 14-year-old.

She bought a new house on Hope Street. She painted it white and blue — to go with the red roof. And she embarked on a campaign to convince her fellow Republicans that she is the candidate to knock Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer from office.

Marin talks like it's destiny. "The future is now. I am a woman. I am a minority. I am a Republican," says Marin, 45, as she cruises in her "Adios Boxer Express" bus toward a campaign stop with Silicon Valley executives.

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