Statement from California State Controller Malia M. Cohen on the Passing of Dolores Huerta<\/h1>\n
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
SACRAMENTO, Calif.<\/span>, Oct. 28, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ — Today, Controller Malia M. Cohen issued a statement on the passing of Dolores Huerta, labor leader and civil rights activist:<\/p>\n \n “Dolores Huerta changed California and our nation by demanding dignity, fair wages and a voice for the workers who feed us. She organized, she persisted, and she opened doors for generations of women and leaders.<\/p>\n “I join Californians in mourning her passing and extend my deepest condolences to her family. We honor her by carrying forward her fight for justice and opportunity. \u00a1S\u00ed, se puede!”<\/p>\n As the chief fiscal officer of the fourth-largest economy in the world, California State Controller Malia M. Cohen independently oversees and manages the state’s financial resources with integrity and transparency to build trust. Controller Cohen is responsible for accountability and disbursement of the state’s financial resources. She has independent auditing authority over government agencies that spend state funds. The Controller is a member of numerous financing authorities, and fiscal and financial oversight entities including the Franchise Tax Board. She also serves on the boards for the nation’s two largest public pension funds. Follow the California State Controller’s Office on <\/i>X<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>Facebook<\/i><\/a>, and <\/i>YouTube<\/i><\/a> at @CAController and on <\/i>Instagram<\/i><\/a> at @CaliforniaController.<\/i><\/p>\n SOURCE California State Controller’s Office<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Statement from California State Controller Malia M. Cohen on the Passing of Dolores Huerta SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 28, 2026 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ — Today, Controller Malia M. Cohen issued a statement on the passing of Dolores Huerta, labor leader and civil rights activist:<\/p>\n “Dolores Huerta changed California and our nation by demanding dignity, fair wages…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278452"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278454,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278452\/revisions\/278454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/mmx.prnewswire.com\/media\/MS2001703\/SCO-Press-Office-Spanish.jpg?id=OA3045735\" "\\"\\"")
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