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Arthur "Art" Torres is the current Chairman of the California Democratic Party, a position he has held since 1995, and is the first Latino in the California Democratic Party to have been nominated for statewide office when he won the Democratic primary for insurance commissioner in 1994. Earlier in his career, he served for 8 years as a state Assembly member (1974-1982), and for 12 as a State Senator (1982-1994). While serving in the state legislature, he served as chairman of the Insurance Committee, Assembly Health Committee, Senate Joint Committee on Science and Technology, and the Senate Committee on the Entertainment Industry. Torres co-authored legislation that created the Museum of Tolerance, in Los Angeles and the California Clean Water Act. The California Democratic Party is the local branch of the Democratic Party in the state of California. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Etymology The word Latino (feminine Latina) derives from Latin (the adjectives latinus, latina), originally referring to Latium, the area of Rome, by aitiology derived from a king of the name Latinus. ... California Insurance Commissioners External links Homepage Current Candidates for Insurance Commissioner ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... California State Assembly Chamber in the State Capitol The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. ... California State Senate Chamber in the State Capitol The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature. ... Californias Capitol, where the State Legislature meets The California Legislature is the legislative branch of the state government of California. ... The Museum of Tolerance is a multimedia museum designed to examine racism and prejudice in the United States and the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ...
Torres holds a Bachelor'sdegree from UC Santa Cruz and a Juris Doctor from UC DavisSchool of Law. A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study. ... The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC or UC Santa Cruz) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Cruz, California, USA. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and ranked by US News as the twenty-eighth best public university in the nation. ... Juris Doctor (J.D., Latin for Doctor of Jurisprudence) is a professional law degree typically awarded by an accredited law school in the United States to a student who has successfully completed three years of study in law. ... The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten University of California campuses. ... The University of California, Davis School of Law or Martin Luther King Jr. ...
Senator ArtTorres, former Chairman of the Senate Insurance Committee, now Chairman of the Select Committee on Insurance Reform, is known throughout California as a watchdog for crime victims, consumers and business, and an independent crusader for reform in government, education, insurance and the environment.
Torres led a crackdown on unscrupulous offshore and out of state insurance companies who collected premiums and left homeowners, drivers and businesses holding the bag when claims were filed.
ArtTorres was born and raised in East Los Angeles, he attended public schools and graduated from U.C. Santa Cruz, B.A., and earned his law degree from U.C. Davis.
Torres and Kamhi are editors of the journal Aristos, which skews decidedly to the culturally conservative end of the arts spectrum.
Torres and Kamhi argue that a person's sense of life influences his personality, but not necessarily his character, which is formed more by his conscious ideas and by the absorption of social norms.
She thought most 20th century art styles were "dominated by the attempt to disintegrate man's consciousness and reduce it to mere sensations, to the 'enjoyment' of meaningless colors, noises and moods"; this preference, she argued with characteristic hyperbole, was not simply in bad taste but downright evil.
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