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if it's Fuentes that you're fighting for.”

So Dora said, “Listen, we wish we could get rid of him. He's not the battle. We know that he causes us damage.”

I said, “Well, why don't you just dump him? Get rid of him. Then we could put this thing together.”

And she said, “No, we can't. We're stuck with him. He's a symbol, and we just couldn't do it.”

So they're stuck with their symbol; the others are stuck with theirs -- and so the whole thing fell apart and I was never able to do anything there.

Lately I have a very good relationship again with Dora Colazzo. We meet; she's still the district leader; and Arturo Santiago has since become a district leader beating another Puerto Rican, Bert Aponte who had been a district leader for quite some time but who also was a city marshal, and it's very hard for a city marshal putting people out of their homes, especially in that area, and also being a district leader. The two just don't go together. He was defeated, and I think probably on that grounds, defeated by Arturo.

Arturo recently was involved in a demonstration when they were cutting community programs, and he's in charge of a community program. And I think he's honest and decent, and I like him. And when the last budget cut off their telephones, he said, “How are we supposed to run a community program providing services if we are told by the city that we can't have telephones? How can you