Medina later became the highest ranking Mexican American union leader in the U.S. “He [Chávez] first announced the teamsters’ vote, I think it was something like 328 [331] for them. And I thought, Oh my god. Then he paused. And then he said, for the UFWOC, 530 votes. And for a minute, not a sound happened. Then, it’s sort of like at the same time, all of us internalized what he had said. And this cheer erupted. Everybody went crazy and then people were crying and hugging and, and all of that. And that was, of all the elections I ever did in my life, that was the most special one. My first one, but it’s also one that was like redemption for us.”