Newsletter The stories shaping California Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. No amount of chaos, it seems, can distract us from speculating about who will fill Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ Senate seat. Or he could appoint California’s first openly LGBT senator — state Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins would fit the bill, as would Garcia and Lara. Pete Wilson plucked an Orange County lawmaker from “relative obscurity” to fill the Senate seat Wilson himself had vacated when he won his gubernatorial election. Los Angeles TimesSupport our journalism Subscribe to the Los Angeles Times.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 11, 2020 13:32 UTC