Sen. Padilla on Reparations: “We Can Walk and Chew Gum”
By Manny Otiko California Black Media
Published April 29, 2021
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla talks during a news conference Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s is considering whom to appoint to serve out the rest of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ Senate term through 2022. Under consideration for the job include Rep. Karen Bass, Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, Secretary of State Alex Padilla, and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
California’s newest and first Latino Democratic Senator, Alex Padilla, says he supports reparations for Black American descendants of enslaved African people. He made the statement during an online news briefing with members of California’s ethnic press organized by Ethnic Media Services.
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117th Congress being sworn in Sunday amid pandemic
The Constitution calls for Congress to convene on January 3 at noon ET the reason for the rare Sunday session. Newly elected and returning members will take the oath of office and the full House of Representatives will vote to elect a new Speaker. Nancy Pelosi, who has served as House speaker in the 116th Congress, is on track to remain in the role.
House Democrats kept control of the House in the November elections, but will now have a narrower majority after suffering a string of losses, despite projections that they would win more seats. House Republicans, meanwhile, outperformed expectations and are now poised to add a significant number of GOP women to their ranks in the new Congress.
Gavin Newsom has nominated Democratic Assemblywoman of San Diego Dr.
Shirley Weber to become the state’s next Secretary of State. If confirmed, Weber will be the first Black woman in the role.
The role became vacant after Gov. Newsom tapped current Secretary of State
Alex Padilla to fill Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris’ Senate seat as she takes office in January.
Gov. Newsom hailed Weber as “a tireless advocate and change agent with unimpeachable integrity,” in a statement. “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.