From The Desert Sun:
Between a changing demographic and the candidacy of state Assemblyman V. Manuel Pérez, both Republicans and Democrats already are discussing the role Latinos will play in the 2014 county supervisor race. Pérez, a Coachella Democrat, last week kicked off what’s bound to be a high-profile run against Riverside County Supervisor John Benoit, a Bermuda Dunes Republican. If elected, Pérez would be the only Latino on the five-member county board. And he would represent a district where the majority of the population is now Latino. While a candidate’s race is not the only factor voters consider when heading to the polls, experts say it is a factor. “People are sensitive around the questions of race and ethnicity,” said Louis DeSipio, a University of California, Irvine political science professor who specializes in Chicano and Latino studies.

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