California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will replace Kamala Harris as senator
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla speaks in San Francisco. California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, as the state s next U.S. senator to fill the seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)AP
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California Gov. Gavin Newsom selected Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday as the state’s next U.S. senator, a historic pick that sends a Latino to the Senate for the first time in the state’s history.
Gov. Newsom picks Secretary of State Alex Padilla to fill Kamala Harris seat in Senate
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Los Angeles, California Oct. 30, 2020 California Secretary of State Alex Padilla visits Dodger Stadium on Oct. 30, 2020. (Carolyn Cole/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The wait is finally over on finding out who will be filling Vice President-elect Kamala Harris seat in the Senate.
Newsom picks Secretary of State Alex Padilla to fill Kamala Harris’ seat in Senate
On Tuesday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Secretary of State Alex Padilla will fill the remainder of Kamala Harris U.S. Senate term. Padilla will be the first Latino Senator in California history.
LOS ANGELES California is getting its first Latino U.S. senator. For Gov. Gavin Newsom, it s a political gamble. The Democratic governor Tuesday named Secretary of State Alex Padilla, the son of Mexican immigrants, to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris. When Padilla goes to Washington, the former state legislator will become California s first Latino senator since the state s founding 170 years ago. In picking a personal friend and fellow Democrat, Newsom had his eye on history and pragmatism he turned to someone he could trust with a year of uncertainty looming, including a possible recall election targeting the governor while the pandemic rages unabated.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom selected Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday to be a U.S. senator, a pick that sends a Latino to the Senate for the first time in the state’s history.
Padilla called it a “tremendous point of pride” to be the state’s first Latino senator and reflected on the hard work of his parents, who came to the United States from Mexico and worked as a short-order cook and a housekeeper.
“There’s millions of other families that are equally contributing in powerful ways in each community throughout the state and throughout the nation,” he said in an interview. “These are important perspectives to bring to policymaking and problem solving.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected the state s Secretary of State Alex Padilla to fill Vice President-elect Kamala Harris US Senate seat.
Padilla will be the first-ever Latino to represent California in the US Senate, and will serve out the rest of Harris term until 2022, at which point he will have the option to run for a full term.
Padilla previously served as a Los Angeles City Council member in the late 1990s and early 2000s and then as a state senator before being elected as secretary of state in 2014.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected the state s Secretary of State Alex Padilla to fill Vice President-elect Kamala Harris US Senate seat, Newsom and Padilla announced on Tuesday.