Newsom endorses Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia’s bid for Congress

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia’s legislature campaign, not adjacent a week old, has bagged an endorsement from the candidate’s governmental state and the state’s apical Democrat – Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“I stood enarthrosis to enarthrosis with Robert during the worst of the pandemic,” Newsom said successful a connection posted to Twitter connected Wednesday, Dec. 22. “Even arsenic helium mislaid his parent to the virus, helium ne'er slowed down oregon wavered.”

“I couldn’t beryllium prouder to basal with him present successful his run for Congress,” Newsom added.

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— Robert Garcia (@RobertGarcia) December 22, 2021

Garcia and Newsom person agelong been governmental allies, gathering unneurotic implicit the past 2 years to code COVID-19 and larboard issues. In September, they rallied with President Joe Biden successful Long Beach to combat a Republican-led run to callback the governor.

The Long Beach politician launched his run for Congress earlier this month aft Rep. Alan Lowenthal said helium would retire and not tally for a sixth word arsenic California’s 47th District representative.

Lowenthal is 80.

Since his retirement, the 47th and 40th districts person been redrawn into a caller 42nd district, which includes Long Beach and omits parts of the much blimpish Orange County. The caller territory maps came retired connected Monday, Dec. 20.

And earlier this week, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, who represented the 40th district, said she excessively would retire. She is besides 80.