Newsom focused on ‘character` in choosing Alex Padilla, Shirley Weber for top roles
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday formally introduced Alex Padilla as the state’s next U.S. Senator and Shirley Weber as Secretary of State, saying the selections came down to one thing: character. “Of course competency matters, of course technical expertise matters,” the governor said during a video call with Padilla and Weber, “but character matters as well.” During his career, Newsom said, he’s admired politicians from afar only to get to know them and have that admiration wane upon seeing them put themselves, not others, first. Padilla, the current secretary of state who is slated to take over Kamala Harris’s seat in the U.S. Senate when she is...