Free Republic

SACRAMENTO – Former Democratic state Assemblyman Marco Antonio Firebaugh, a native of Mexico who wrote legislation making it more affordable for immigrants to attend California universities, died Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. He was 39. Doctors attributed the death to influenza and liver failure, according to a statement from his campaign office. Firebaugh was running for a state Senate seat. He died at 7:15 a.m. at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center with family and close friends at his side, former state Sen. Richard Polanco said. Polanco, who as at the hospital when Firebaugh died, praised the former...