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Guillermo Ramos remembers seeing few elected leaders who looked like him while he was growing up in the 1980s in Farmers Branch, a fast-growing affluent suburb northwest of Dallas.
Over the years, Latino representation continued to lag, he said. In 2015, after he had become a lawyer, he decided to do something about it.
