Endorsement: Eleni Kounalakis is the clear choice for California lieutenant governor [Opinion]
Eleni Kounalakis, the Sacramento housing developer who was U.S. ambassador to Hungary during the Obama administration, became the first woman to be elected as California’s lieutenant governor in 2018 and the first woman to sign a bill into law in state history when Gov. Gavin Newsom was on vacation in March.
to Gov. Jerry Brown, Newsom’s predecessor. In that role, she led the California delegation that attended the U.N. Climate Summit last year in Scotland. Republican candidate Angela Underwood Jacobs, a banking executive and former Lancaster City Council member, alsoto be an advocate for lowering the high cost of UC and CSU tuition. But she appears to see the lieutenant governor’s office as a bully pulpit with real power to influence and guide state policies and act as a “much-needed counter to the governor.” That’s not how the job works. In 1979, when Republican Lt. Gov. Mike Curb tried to use Gov.
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