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Newsom taps Alex Padilla to replace Kamala Harris in US Senate Published  Alex Padilla will be CA’s first Latino senator Gov. Gavin Newsom selected California Secretary of State Alex Padilla for the Senate seat that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will vacate. Padilla will be the first Latino senator to represent the Golden State. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday as the state’s next U.S. senator to fill the seat ...

Michael R. Blood This photo taken from video provided by the Office of the Governor shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom, right during a virtual meeting from his home in Sacramento, Calif., with California Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Newsom appointed Padilla as the states next U.S. senator to fill the seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. (Office of the Governor via AP) December 23, 2020 - 7:38 AM LOS ANGELES - Califor...

Newsom, who has not said when he’ll make an announcement on Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ Senate successor, is facing an onslaught of competing pressures over what is perhaps one of the most pivotal and politically consequential decisions he will make during his first two years in office. More Coverage The selection of Padilla presented a new and intense political challenge for Newsom. A coalition of Black women strongly advocated for Harris’ Senate seat to be given to another vo...

SACRAMENTO —  Alex Padilla, a Los Angeles Democrat who once developed software for satellites but later rose through local and state political office to become California secretary of state, was chosen Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve in the U. S. Senate — an appointment that tears down a barrier for Latinos that has stood as long as California’s statehood. Padilla, a longtime Newsom ally, will become the first Latino to represent California in the Senate, succeeding another hist...

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 e...

By R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter 2018 Womens March Los Angeles “The son of Mexican immigrants — a cook and house cleaner — Alex Padilla worked his way from humble beginnings to the halls of MIT, the Los Angeles City Council and the State Senate, and has become a national defender of voting rights as California’s Secretary of State," Newsom said in a release about his selection. “Through his tenacity, integrity, smarts and grit, California is gaining a tested fighter in their corne...

California law left the appointment of a successor for Harris following Joe Biden’s win in the presidential election to Newsom. A range of politicians had pitched themselves for the position. Newsom this summer joked with a reporter who asked if candidates had approached him: “You may be the only one who hasn’t – unless you just did.” Newsom faced competing pressures to appoint a Latino to the seat and to appoint a Black woman, as Harris was the only Black woman in the chamber. Top co...

Kathleen Ronayne Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom selected Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday as the states next U.S. senator, a historic pick that sends a Latino to the Senate for the first time in the states history. While Padilla had been the favorite, a video released by Newsoms office shows him getting emotional after Newsom offered him the job, reflecting on the hard work of his parents, who came to the United States from Mexico and worked as a...

AP SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday as the state’s next U.S. senator to fill the seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The child of Mexican immigrants, Padilla will be California’s first Latino senator, giving a new level of representation to the demographic group that makes up nearly 40% of the state’s population. “Through his tenacity, integrity, smarts and grit, California is gaining a tested ...

Previously: Thanks to the lone opposition of Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz, a bill that would have allowed tens of thousands of Hong Kongers to move here failed in the Senate last week [ South China Morning Post, December 19, 2020]. The House of Representatives had passed the bill by unanimous consent, which is what its boosters, including the usual GOP suspects, expected to do in the Senate. But Cruz boldly said no, and for good reason. The GOP Establishment claimed the bill would be a blow agai...