California s first Latino senator: Alex Padilla picked to fill Kamala Harris Senate seat Kathleen Ronayne, Associated Press
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. 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.
While Padilla had been the favorite, a video released by Newsom s 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 cook and a housekeeper.
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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.”
What Will Happen to the POTUS Twitter Account in 2021?
On 12/22/20 at 4:54 PM EST
Throughout what is by all accounts a rocky transition of power, President-Elect Joe Biden getting his hands on the official White House Twitter accounts (@POTUS, @WhiteHouse) may be one of the more difficult transfers.
In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama s Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse at Team 44 s urging.
In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero. https://t.co/wj1R02SmiK Rob Flaherty (@Rob Flaherty) December 22, 2020
On Tuesday, Biden s digital director Rob Flaherty tweeted that Twitter informed the transition team that once he takes office Biden will not retain all of President Donald Trump s followers. When Trump assumed the handle from President Barack Obama in 2016, Flaherty said that Obama s team had fought to make sure that Trump would receive all of his predecessor s followers and not ha
NEWSOM: Stay-at-home order could be extended API push for BONTA for AG Battle over NURSES New COVID strain: Cause for concern? O’LEARY resigns, DEBOO is IN
12/22/2020 09:00 AM EST
THE BUZZ NEWSOM’S NOT GETTING A BREAK 2020 is not letting up, right down to the final weeks.
Whether it’s an extended lockdown (brace yourselves for that) or a new Covid-19 strain, Gov. Gavin Newsom has had to deliver some tough news again this week tempered by the vaccine deliveries, which have begun around California.
THE BIG (BAD) NEWS Newsom said the state will likely extend stay-at-home orders as coronavirus cases continue to soar, as POLITICO’s Jeremy B. White reported. That’s as most of the state has locked down again under a directive shutting regions where intensive care unit capacity dips below 15 percent which now covers where 98 percent of California s population lives.