Lots of the town’s Puerto Rican leaders had been stunned by Gomez’s make an impression on a five-term Irish-American incumbent James T. Welch.
Lots of the town’s Puerto Rican leaders had been stunned by Gomez’s make an impression on a five-term Irish-American incumbent James T. Welch. Maria Perez, an associate associated with Springfield class Committee and community that is longtime, called it a “battle for representation” dating to 1981, whenever Miguel Rivas went for town council. “Rivas didn’t win that but we have been fighting for this since then,” said Perez, who founded Women on the Vanguard as an advocacy group for women and children in the city year. Gumersindo Gomez, appropriate, and Heriberto Flores in…Read more …