Government
Jan. 12, 2021
Newsom is pressured to appoint a woman or minority as AG
Lobbying around the job began shortly after president-elect Joe Biden announced Dec. 6 he would nominate California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his secretary of health and human services. But most of the groups only announced their efforts after Democrats won the Georgia senator runoffs.
The lobbying around Gov. Gavin Newsom's attorney general pick has begun in earnest.
The Democratic Legislative Women's Caucus jumped into the fray with a letter urging him to pick from among a half-dozen women, mostly current or former state legislators.
"Women make up just over half of the population in California, and yet only one woman has served as attorney general in our state," stated the lett...
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