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    Q&A: Padilla discusses becoming California's first Latino senator

    by Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times Dec 23, 2020 4 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday made history by appointing fellow Democrat Alex Padilla to the U.S. Senate, making him the first Latino to represent California as senator. Padilla, California’s two-term secretary of state, will replace Sen. Kamala Harris, who in November became the first woman elected vice president of the United States.

    Padilla, 47, has a political career that spans more than two decades and began when he was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1999 when he was just 26. He went on to become the city’s youngest council president, a state senator and secretary of state.

    Padilla, who has been working from his home in the San Fernando Valley throughout most of

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