In a letter to his constituents, Fletcher again insisted he had a consensual relationship with the woman who has sued him for sexual misconduct, and he omitted any mention of the power imbalance between them at work.
Weber, who was elected to the Assembly in 2021, is the first candidate to launch a run to replace Sen. Toni Atkins since Nathan Fletcher ended his campaign late last month.
In his absence, taxpayers are on the hook for untold legal expenses, advocates are brooding over potential impacts to county business and nearly 700,000 people will have no representative on the county Board of Supervisors.
His office gave a date for his planned resignation hours after his late-night announcement that he would step down amid allegations of sexual harassment and assault.