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"You've never run for an elected office before?" "No," Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones, who is running for the District 23 House of Representatives seat, said.

But she is a political newcomer, in familiar territory.

El Rodeo De Jalisco on Potranco Road is where Ortiz Jones and I chat over coffee and take a trip down memory lane.

"Yeah, well I live about a mile and a half from here. This is the neighborhood, this is my community. The duck pond is right down the street (and) I went to Pease Middle School right down the road," Ortiz Jones said.

Ortiz Jones was raised by a