SACRAMENTO – In a widely anticipated move to fill the U.S. Senate seat by currently held by the departing Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he has chosen the state’s secretary of state, Alex Padilla.
Padilla and Newsom have had a long working relationship as elected officials in the Golden State. He will be the first Latino senator to represent California, the nation’s most populous state, which also has the largest Latino population in the nation.
Padilla has a strong track record as an elected official championing LGBTQ equality. He publicly campaigned against Proposition 8 which called for a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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