Shuffling Sacramento’s line of succession
Excerpted from Politico
By Jeremy B. White, Chirs Ramirez, Juhi Doshi, and Graph Massara
Newsom had scarcely prevailed over last year’s recall when legislative Democrats began clamoring to alter the recall process — a process Secretary of State Shirley Weber vowed to assist. Weber has outlined various pitfalls and potential changes throughout a series of joint committee hearings that will shape what Democrats seek to put before voters. In the final hearing on Tuesday, Weber said the priority should be changing the replacement process — and she endorsed a system that would make the lieutenant governor next in line.
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Legislators are poised to consider this very idea. Recalled-then-reelected state Sen. Josh Newman has long since floated a constitutional amendment to have lieutenant governors fill out the terms of recalled governors. A separate but related idea Weber also floated: having “the governor and the LG on the same ticket,” as opposed to the current setup of running separately. We’ll see if that idea makes it into bill language.