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When voting rights advocates told @AlexPadilla4CA what California needed to vote safely in the pandemic, he delivered.
I hope he's as clear-eyed about what else we need: survival checks, rent cancellation, eviction freezes, and free healthcare at the point of service. https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1341448991259512833
I hope he's as clear-eyed about what else we need: survival checks, rent cancellation, eviction freezes, and free healthcare at the point of service. https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1341448991259512833
Yes, he rolled on single-payer in 2012.
Yes, he's our first Latino Senator.
Yes, there are no black women in the Senate.
Yes, he had to pay the biggest ethics fine in LA's history in 2002.
Yes, he's expanded voter access throughout his tenure as SoS.
Lot going on here.
Yes, he's our first Latino Senator.
Yes, there are no black women in the Senate.
Yes, he had to pay the biggest ethics fine in LA's history in 2002.
Yes, he's expanded voter access throughout his tenure as SoS.
Lot going on here.
He has, however, made a point to grow in every office and before unique challenges. The next two years - COVID, the economic fallout, and our management of both - are the kind of things that call up his best work. The Senator-designate bears watching.
As he's grown in office, some things have stayed constant. Whenever I went to support a picket line, he was there. He endorsed Propositions 15 and 16 this year, and put some muscle into the latter.
He's been in public life his entire adult life, often the youngest, first Latino, first Valley boy, or otherwise the newcomer in a lot of rooms, from MIT to City Hall - and hasn't, in my experience lost his balance or his attention to ordinary people. Let's see where this goes.
