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The election of the first colorful woman to lead the Chamber came after weeks of speculation about the challenges of the leadership of Senate President, Aquaries, Mike McGuire. But the couple promised a friendly transition.
Democrats today are selected Senator Monique Lemon Like the next Senate leader of California, the first colorful woman to take the position.
Progressive whose large donors are the California Unions, Lemon from Santa Barbara, is known for pursuing Pay transparency Legislation, Consumer Protects as Closing Medical Debt from Credit Reports And efforts to regulate the oil industry. She is the author of a law of 2022 who requires failure Around new oil and gas wells and steps to protect Old Wells residents, and have pushed a 2021 failed bill. To ban the oil fractionS Later, the governor Gavin Newo ordered the ban.
45 -year -old Lemon noted that she was the daughter of immigrants and pointed to her election at a time when California was fighting with escalating display with Trump administration over protests against deportations in Los Angeles.
“On the day we witness the fact that our California values are attacked, we choose the first colorful woman in history to serve in this role,” she said. “That’s important, it matters and we will move on.”
Democratic MPs voted alone to choose her after weeks of murmuring to challenge to Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuireis the management that ended over the weekend with a lemon, the current chairman of the cause, providing a majority of supporters.
She will take McGuire next year, he told reporters in Capitol with lemon and the greater part of their democratic colleagues standing next to him. They did not announce a formal date of transition.
More specially absent Senator Lena GonzalezThe Long Beach Democrats Long and the majority leader in the Senate, who has also been reported to have been gaining a leadership position.
In general, legislators can make a leadership offer when they have sufficient support within the party. McGuire, which was called after 2026, tried to leave the inner jockey for his place, telling Politico in late May that he intended to remain as a leader until the end of his term.
In the end, it was announced by distribution with copious amounts of mutual praise.
McGuire, a Hildsburg Democrat, said the experience of a lemon -affected area, affected by wild fires, would serve the Senate of Fire Safety and Insurance Problems well. He also emphasized the historical character of her election.
Unexpected time against Los Angeles protests
Lemon admitted that the time of her offer was not “not expected;” Came not only during Federal Los Angeles Show But also in a week when legislators Face the deadline to cross a budgetS She said the decision was a “cause of cause.”
Lemon was elected for the meeting in 2016, and the Senate in 2020. Like McGuire, it will serve relatively short as a leader as it is planned to leave office at the end of 2028.
Its area includes Santa Barbara County and the western, highly agricultural part of Ventura County. Like many California Democrats, it is strongly supported by the trade unions, who are among its best campaign participants. It voted in accordance with the positions of the International Union of Employees on Accounts 93% of the time, according to Calmatters Database of digital democracyS She took the position of the California Chamber of Commerce only about a quarter of the time.
Her guide can also lead to further questions about accounts designed to reduce bureaucracy and accelerating the construction of housingS While the Assembly and Newsom have accepted these suggestions, the Senate has been sharply divided On them this year.
The lemon vote record shows some opposition. She has refused to support some of the highest-profile accounts for the development of the state, Sb 9which allows the owners of single -family homes to turn their houses into duplexi, Sb 423which allows certain residential buildings to avoid an environmental review and this year Sb 79which is aimed at resolving a faster development on large public transport corridors.
Prior to his election in the legislature, Lemon served six years at the Santa Barbara University Council, was an assistant director of the McNair scientist program at UC Santa Barbara and was a member of the Santa Barbara Women’s Commission.
CalMatters reporters Ryan Sabalow and Ben Christopher have contributed to this story.