California Attorney General Announces Run for SenatePosted in Articles, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2015-01-13 18:53Z by Steven |
California Attorney General Announces Run for Senate
The New York Times
2015-01-13
Adam Nagourney, Los Angeles Bureau Chief
Kamala Harris Makes Bid for Barbara Boxer’s Old Seat
LOS ANGELES — No exploratory committees here: Kamala D. Harris, the California attorney general, announced on Tuesday she was running for the Senate seat that is opening up with Barbara Boxer’s retirement at the end of the year.
Ms. Harris’ announcement, posted on a new campaign website, came a day after the California lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom, who was widely viewed here as the other major contender for the seat, announced that he was not going to run. Friends say that Mr. Newsom is more interested in running for governor when Jerry Brown retires in four years.
Democrats here have long suggested that Ms. Harris and Mr. Newsom would avoid running against each other, because they are both such strong candidates, with their own fund-raising bases and they both come from Northern California.
Ms. Harris, who is 50, is the daughter of a Jamaican-American father and an Indian-American mother.
She was re-elected to a second term as attorney general last year…
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