“Because of his experience as California secretary of state, he knows the voting-rights history of this country and the efforts to disenfranchise people. Then, by virtue of having been to an East Coast school, he’s been exposed to [other Latino groups], and he needs to continue to build bridges to Puerto Ricans and Cubans and Dominicans and other Latinos,” says Laura Gómez, a Chicana scholar and professor at UCLA’s law school.
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Laura Gómez in The Atlantic: “There’s No Playbook for What Alex Padilla Is Trying to Do California’s new senator, who filled Kamala Harris’s seat, is hoping to speak for his fellow Latinos. That won’t be easy.”
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“Because of his experience as California secretary of state, he knows the voting-rights history of this country and the efforts to disenfranchise people. Then, by virtue of having been to an East Coast school, he’s been exposed to [other Latino groups], and he needs to continue to build bridges to Puerto Ricans and Cubans and…
