Tuesday, December 22, 2020

CALIFAS SEC. OF STATE WILL REPLACE HARRIS IN SENATE

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

California Gov. Gavin Newsom selected Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday to be a U.S. senator, a pick that sends a Latino to the Senate for the first time in the state’s history. 


A video released by Newsom’s office showed Padilla becoming emotional after Newsom, a close friend, offered him the job. Padilla reflected on the hard work of his parents, who came to the United States from Mexico and worked as a cook and a housekeeper.

“It’s a hell of an important perspective to bring to Washington,” he told Newsom. 

Padilla, 47, was the favorite in a crowded field of possibilities to fill out the remainder of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ term. She plans to step down from the seat in January ahead of Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. 

Padilla will need to run for a full six-year term in 2022. The appointment gives him an advantage, but he’s still likely to face challengers, some within his own party. California’s top-two primary system allows two Democrats to face off in a general election.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

57,000-year-old mummified hillbilly coco wanna be a dog discovered.

Anonymous said...

Good grab, Juan! This is about US!!!!

Anonymous said...

El Blimp is now wholesale copying & pasting his stories, Juan. He writes a short intro and then - BOOM! - comes someone else's good writing on the issue. What a loser!!!! Plus he has so many typos it's headachesville!!!!

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Anonymous said...

A Pennsylvania man is facing up to 19 years in prison after prosecutors say he admitted to illegally casting a ballot in the general election for President Donald Trump as his dead mother and also registering his dead mother-in-law to vote with the intent to do the same.

Bruce Bartman, 70, was charged with two counts of perjury and one count of unlawful voting after allegedly registering both deceased women online to vote in the Nov. 3 election using either their driver’s license or social security number, prosecutors said Monday.

“He registered both of his deceased relatives as Republicans and he has admitted to the detectives who questioned him that he did this to further the campaign of Donald Trump,” Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said at a press conference.

Ha ha ha ha aha, Dumbass.

Anonymous said...

Among other things, Trump and his Republican enablers have normalized corruption and nepotism, degraded public discourse, invited foreign involvement in US elections, abused presidential pardons, deepened racial divides and politicized the bureaucracy in ways rarely seen in American history. Trump's refusal to concede after a clear loss is sweet music for autocrats across the globe and a stain on American's reputation.
But his effort to subvert democracy has failed.

Attempts to undermine election results may falter because formal institutions curb executive power, public servants with pro-democratic norms save the day or a leader chooses the wrong strategy.

But they are especially likely to fail when the leader is weak. In the end, public opinion and political power are the ultimate checks on aspiring demagogues.

Anonymous said...

Hope his beginnings are real a factor in his actions. Sylvia Atkinson's mother used to pick cotton and it didn't matter to her.

Anonymous said...

Eso, Juan, eso!

Anonymous said...

@4:35 PM
It can't be true. We all know that there is no voter fraud right?

Anonymous said...

This is a blog nothing formal pinche pendejos you wanna teach go to bisd and apply for a huevones job at 50k annual salary WITH 3 months off with pay idiota...

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