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Newsom fills Harris Senate seat with Padilla - Watermark Online


Newsom fills Harris Senate seat with Padilla
By : Brody Levesque via THE WASHINGTON BLADE, COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL LGBT MEDIA ASSOCIATION
December 28, 2020
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ABOVE: Sen.-designate Alex Padilla, photo via Padilla’s Facebook page.
SACRAMENTO | In 1994, after California voters passed Proposition 187, the sweeping anti-immigrant measure, his parents finally applied for citizenship and Padilla, now a recent MIT graduate, resolved to put an engineering career aside and dedicate his life to public service.
In his first run for elected office Padilla was elected to the Los Angeles City Council as a political outsider at the age of 26. Later, in 2001, Padilla’s LA city council colleagues elected him the youngest Council President in Los Angeles history. In 2006, he was elected to the State Senate to represent the more than 1 million people in the San Fernando Valley. ....

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Alex Padilla, LGBT+ ally, chosen as Kamala Harris' Senate replacement.


Secretary of state Alex Padilla will fill the incoming vice president s seat in the Senate (Getty/State of California)
Alex Padilla, California secretary of state and stalwart LGBT+ ally, has been chosen as Kamala Harris’ Senate replacement.
California governor Gavin Newsom picked Alex Padilla to fill the incoming vice president’s seat in the Senate when she departs for her new role in January.
Padilla, who will be California’s first Latino senator, will hold the role as an appointee until the 2022 election.
The governor said: “The son of Mexican immigrants a cook and house cleaner Alex Padilla worked his way from humble beginnings to the halls of MIT, the Los Angeles City Council and the state senate, and has become a national defender of voting rights as California’s secretary of state. ....

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