GOVERNOR VILLARAIGOSA AND THE LATINO MAJORITY IN CALIFORNIA
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It is no secret that ex-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is interested in running for governor in California in 2018. As a matter of fact, he is already actively going around the state and the country lining up both the financial and political support necessary to make him what would be only the second Latino to hold the governorship since Romualdo Pacheco did so in 1875.
Clearly, the front runner in this campaign for governor has been thought to be Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, especially when he passed on a run for the Senate. But I think the only reason Newsom has been seen as an inevitability for governor is that it presupposes the traditionally low Latino vote in all previous elections and not a systematically organized majority Latino voter constituency that could be offered to one of their own like Villaraigosa or Alex Padilla.
It is my belief that a seasoned politician like Antonio Villaraigosa could easily be instrumental in creating such a dynamic and engaged Latino electorate around his own GOVERNOR VILLARAIGOSA AND THE LATINO MAJORITY IN CALIFORNIA - Perdaily.com:
