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Ramon Medina spent eight years achieving his small-town political dream and about half of that time tarnishing it.
After winning a seat on the Maywood City Council in 2015, Medina was engulfed in scandals.
He voted on issues that raised questions of conflict of interest, including a 2016
caught growing marijuana as he pushed for a cannabis ordinance at City Hall. The following year, his home and auto shop were part of an anti-corruption raid.
Undaunted, he ran for reelection in November but lost.
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That Medina believed he had a chance of being reelected despite the controversies swirling around him might seem like a surprise. But he was a politician in one of a warren of small cities in southeast Los Angeles County where scandals have long festered and weren’t always a knockout against political ambitions.