{"id":9384,"date":"2009-07-16T00:03:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:03:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-16T00:03:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:03:36","slug":"sen-alex-padilla-comes-out-swinging-as-newsom-for-governor-campaign-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/16\/sen-alex-padilla-comes-out-swinging-as-newsom-for-governor-campaign-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Alex Padilla Comes Out Swinging as Newsom for Governor Campaign Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Alex Padilla (D-LA) today endorsed SF Mayor Gavin Newsom for Governor and was also <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/07\/gavin-newsom.html\">announced as the new campaign chairman<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Padilla immediately came out swinging against Newsom&#8217;s presumptive competitor, Attorney General Jerry Brown:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But &#8220;with all due respect,&#8221; he added, Californians know Brown &#8220;for his time in state leadership decades ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world has changed, and the challenges before us are certainly more complex,&#8221; Padilla said. &#8220;The solutions need to be modern solutions, not old solutions.&#8221; &#8230; Padilla said that Newsom, 41, has &#8220;the passion and certainly the energy we need to lead the state in a better direction,&#8221; and that Brown does not. (<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/07\/gavin-newsom.html\">LAT 7\/15\/09<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is basically standard talking points on the experience vs. youth dispute. Padilla, while known from his time on the LA City Council, is hardly a household name. However, he does help Mayor Newsom make inroads on what could be a decisive voting bloc &#8211; SoCal Latinos.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that takes care of our horse race coverage for the day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Alex Padilla (D-LA) today endorsed SF Mayor Gavin Newsom for Governor and was also <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/07\/gavin-newsom.html\">announced as the new campaign chairman<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Padilla immediately came out swinging against Newsom&#8217;s presumptive competitor, Attorney General Jerry Brown:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But &#8220;with all due respect,&#8221; he added, Californians know Brown &#8220;for his time in state leadership decades ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world has changed, and the challenges before us are certainly more complex,&#8221; Padilla said. &#8220;The solutions need to be modern solutions, not old solutions.&#8221; &#8230; Padilla said that Newsom, 41, has &#8220;the passion and certainly the energy we need to lead the state in a better direction,&#8221; and that Brown does not. (<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/07\/gavin-newsom.html\">LAT 7\/15\/09<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is basically standard talking points on the experience vs. youth dispute. Padilla, while known from his time on the LA City Council, is hardly a household name. However, he does help Mayor Newsom make inroads on what could be a decisive voting bloc &#8211; SoCal Latinos.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that takes care of our horse race coverage for the day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[204],"tags":[1092,415,487],"class_list":["post-9384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-204","tag-1092","tag-415","tag-487"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2rm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}