Longtime Arizona activist and politician Alfredo Gutierrez died at 79. Friends and colleagues remember him and his impact this week on The Gaggle.

Alfredo Gutierrez was elected to the Arizona Senate in 1972 and eventually became the Democratic Senate Majority Leader.

The last time I saw Alfredo Gutierrez was at this year’s May Day rally outside the State Capitol. He was standing toe-to-toe with a MAGA supporter who had shown up at the protest and was marching through the crowd,