[Ayatollahgondola]

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De La Torre's state Assembly district covers most of the cities caught up in the recent corruption, which he believes has been hard to erase because of the nature of the communities and a local political culture in which such behavior isn't seen as wrong.

The most recent scandals involve three cities that form an arc of alleged corruption and bad government from the industrial enclave of Vernon through the essentially employee-less Maywood into immigrant-heavy and working-class Bell, where until recently city officials were raking in CEO-level salaries.