Joan Milke Flores was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1981 to 1993, serving as the first freshman president pro tem in half a century and being one of the few Republicans on the council. She ran for California Secretary of State in 1990 and for a U.S. Congress seat in 1992. She worked her way up from being a stenographer in the City Hall typing pool.
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“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
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‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
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