Gov. Newsom nominates Shirley Weber as Californiaâs first Black secretary of state Share Updated: 5:18 PM PST Dec 22, 2020 KCRA Staff Share Updated: 5:18 PM PST Dec 22, 2020
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Show Transcript GOVERNOR NEWSOM HAS PICKED ASSEMBLYMEMBER SHIRLEY WEBER TO FILL PADILLAâS SEAT AS SECRETARY OF STATE. WEBER CHAIRS THE STATEâS LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS. SHEâS REPRESENTED SAN DIEGO IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY SINCE 2012. BEFORE THAT, SHE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE SAN DIEGO BOARD OF EDUCATION AND PROFESSOR FOR 40 YEAR SHE WOULD BECOME THE FIRST BLACK SE
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 5:18 PM PST Dec 22, 2020 KCRA Staff Gov. Gavin Newsom has picked Shirley Weber to be the top elections official in California. The Democratic assemblymember would become the first Black secretary of state in California history. Weber, who represents San Diego, chairs the stateâs Legislative Blac
Gov. Gavin Newsom today nominated Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, to serve as the next California secretary of state, a move that would make her the first Black woman to ever hold the position.
Weber would replace Alex Padilla, who was appointed by Newsom earlier Tuesday to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Weber s nomination is subject to confirmation by the state Legislature. Dr. Weber is a tireless advocate and change agent with unimpeachable integrity, Newsom said. The daughter of sharecroppers from Arkansas, Dr. Weber s father didn t get to vote until his 30s and her grandfather never got to vote because he died before the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. When her family moved to South Central Los Angeles, she saw as a child her parents rearrange furniture in their living room to serve as a local polling site for multiple elections.
California gets Latino US senator, some Black leaders angry
By MICHAEL R. BLOODDecember 23, 2020 GMT
LOS ANGELES (AP) 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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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Secretary of State Alex Padilla, left, to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Assembly member Shirley Weber, right, will take Padilla’s spot as the Golden State’s elections chief.
(CN) California’s new election chief Shirley Weber had a story to tell Wednesday as she was introduced to the state’s 40 million residents, save the San Diego County constituents she represents in the Assembly: Her grandfather never voted because he lived in Arkansas during Jim Crow, before the Voting Rights Act.
Her father fled Hope, Arkansas, because he was imminently in peril of being lynched. But once safely ensconced in California in the 1950s, Weber said one of the first things he did was vote because he finally had the opportunity to do so.
By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror
President-elect Joe Biden Tuesday evening announced that Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona is his pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education, an agency the president will rely on to get millions of students back into the schools closed by COVID-19 and to convince Congress to invest much more in education for a host of the president’s priorities.
“In Miguel Cardona, America will have an experienced and dedicated public school teacher leading the way at the Department of Education ensuring that every student is equipped to thrive in the economy of the future, that every educator has the resources they need to do their jobs with dignity and success, and that every school is on track to reopen safely,” Biden said in a Tuesday evening press release.