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Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia greets Sen. Kamala Harris, then a presidential candidate, inside Hamburger Mary’s in Long Beach during the California Democratic Party Endorsing Convention on Nov. 15, 2019.
Photo by Stephen Carr The smart money in Long Beach politics these days is that if and when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win the election, Mayor Robert Garcia will be offered a seat on the next train to North Potomac to snap up a cabinet-level posting and saying sayonara to the city he’s been running for six years.
Right now, though, Garcia says he’ll stay. Even so, the scenario would be tempting to any young politician at a local level. If we can assume, at the very real risk of jinxing what’s still a salvageable democracy, that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will win the Tuesday election, it sets up a likely career bonanza for Garcia, who endorsed early and campaigned on behalf of both candidates.
In the friendship-and-favors-based sphere of politics, that opens an opulent buffet of state and federal posts that could become available to Garcia in a Democratic administration, including an appointment by Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill Harris’ Senate seat as well as an […]