Gavin New­som endors­es Lateefah Simon in race to fill Bar­bara Lee’s House seat

Gov. Gavin New­som (D‑CA) gave his high­ly cov­et­ed endorse­ment to Lateefah Simon, who’s run­ning for Cal­i­for­ni­a’s 12th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict in 2024.
New­som and Simon have col­lab­o­rat­ed close­ly in the past, rep­re­sent­ing Dis­trict 7 on Bay Area Rapid Tran­sit’s board of direc­tors since 2016, where Newsom’s polit­i­cal roots lie.
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“Lateefah is a vision­ary,” New­som said in a state­ment to Politi­co. “But more than a vision­ary, she is a proven leader who effects the kind of change that makes her vision a real­i­ty.”
“From work­ing close­ly with Lateefah and watch­ing her deliv­er real, pro­gres­sive change in her com­mu­ni­ty, I have come to under­stand her as a true force of nature,” New­som added. “She is a ded­i­cat­ed and hon­or­able pub­lic ser­vant, a devot­ed com­mu­ni­ty woman, and a role mod­el to many.”
The House seat is cur­rent­ly rep­re­sent­ed by Rep. Bar­bara Lee (D‑CA), who entered the 2024 Cal­i­for­nia Sen­ate race in Feb­ru­ary in what’s set to be a com­pet­i­tive elec­tion to suc­ceed the late Sen. Dianne Fein­stein.
Before New­som select­ed Laphon­za But­ler, the pres­i­dent of EMI­LY’s List, to be Feinstein’s tem­po­rary suc­ces­sor, Simon was float­ed as an uncon­firmed con­tender.
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