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The article presents an interview with Assemblywoman in Texas Karen Bass. She did not start out with the intention of going to Sacramento. But now that she is there. Bass is among the Democratic legislators taking on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's agenda to "blow up the boxes" of state government. Growing up in Los Angeles amid a generation of political and social activists. Bass left a medical career to launch the Community Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of life for residents of South Los Angeles.