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Mayor Arturo Flores is battling a recall by opponents who claim on social media he’s a “reckless alcoholic” and abuses women while offering no evidence to back up the scurrilous claims.

He claimed that Flores and his council allies had made his job “unreasonably difficult.”

Afterward, I asked him if he thought Flores’ ascension represented a fresh start for Huntington Park.

I interviewed Flores and Macias at the site of their choice to size them up and decide who came off as truthful and who was full of it.

Both are children of Mexican immigrants who grew up in blue-collar neighborhoods — Flores in South L.A.,